Major progress

The kids are both enrolled in swim lessons at the Bellevue Club this session and it couldn't be going better. After Maggie's 1st swim lesson where she screamed the entire time, she had a bad encounter with her teacher so I pulled her out for a few weeks to try and regroup. We had her do a private lesson which went really well and then just our luck, the instructor had her baby early. I decided to try out the group lesson again and it's been going so well. She's actually asking to go under water now and do more dives. This is a complete 180 for this little lady! Both kids actually have private lessons twice a week because nobody else is signed up with them (but it's at the group lesson price - yahoo!).

Ragen has improved immensely as well. He probably could have stopped with lessons for the rest of the summer which was my original intent. But he was making such great progress I decided to do one more session for him. I can't believe how well he's responding! He swam the entire length of the pool (25 yards) this week only stopping one time to rest. He's doing backstroke on his own and he loves the butterfly. It's hilarious to watch him dolphin kick with all his might!

After this session, we'll focus on swimming only for recreation for the rest of the summer except each of them will do a week with the swim lesson goddess, Susie Gravrock.

See you at the pool!

Clearly happier to get in the pool

She LOVES the backstroke

She also really responds well to her teacher "Miko"

Ragen working on his form for diving