A swimming update...

Just a short one, I promise...

Jake's doing really well in the pool at the moment. He's still doing his swimming lessons once a week, on Mondays from 4 - 4:30. While his progress has, at time been slow, he's dealt well with the issues he's had to face and has come through smiling. I love going to watch him do his swimming lessons, it's been really fascinating to me to see how he's learnt. At the moment, they're working on backstroke, the arm movements for crawl and on perfecting their diving skills (ie keeping their arms alongside their ears and their hands sandwiched together infront of them). They do a fair amount of racing in the pool, to see who can get to the other side of the pool first, which Jake loves. He's pretty quick now and he takes complete glee in beating the other kids.

At home, Jake has really enjoyed our heated pool this summer. The weather's been great and he swims daily. Because he's been swimming at the swimming school for so long, he's obviously very comfortable there and is a little more reserved in our pool at home. He's not keen on jumping in at home and insists on wearing goggles and sometimes flippers. Still, he's swimming unassisted and is loving the water.

I thought these photos were funny, he was asking to get out the pool after about an hour's swim and I was busy taking photos of him getting angry with me for not getting him a towel. In the last one, he's telling me he's not looking at me for photos ever again. Hahaha - you gotta love kids!