Lessons today started of a little scary for me and Chloe. When she was doing her pools laps with the noodle she started to come up over the top of it because she was holding it with her forearms and hands instead of putting it in her armpits. The look of panic on her face sent my heart racing as she frantically tried kicking her way back but all that did was propel her farther over the noodle. She is still afraid of getting her face in the water so that added to her panic. Luckily this was all happening right in front of me, and also luckily that one of the instructors was standing outside the pool right where Chloe was and I was able to alert her attentions. Tami (the instructor) jumped in and helped Chloe back on the noodle. After some reassurance from Tami that she was okay and she had to hold the noodle properly Chloe stayed in the pool. Let's hope she gets some of this down so she can begin to keep herself afloat!
Here you go! The pictures uploaded in reverse order oh well! :P
At the end of each lesson they are supposed to jump. Chloe is still to nervous to jump without help.
The rule is sit flat on your bum when it is not your turn. Chloe does pretty good unless she is too excited.
Practicing the back float, a little too blurry sorry!
More backfloat practice (Monkey, Airplane, Soldier)
Breaststroke practice (Rocket, Airplane, Chicken)
She still doesn't get her bum up when kicking so it always looks like she is trying to walk in the water really fast!
2 comments:
I hope she gets over her fear of getting her face wet and going underwater. No telling how those uncles will be around her at the family reunion, not to mention first and second cousinds.
I think she will do fine, she has 6 weeks of swim lessons to work on it before we get there.
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