Swim Lessons

Swim lessons have begun!! Caroline was a little fish last year in the Mommy & Me lessons, so we really expected her to just jump right in.....well, it didn't quite start off that way!!! All the kids were gathering and there were like 3 different teachers over there calling out different names, to get them into their groups. Mr. Danny, Caroline's teacher, called her name, and she started freaking out!! She was saying "but I want the girl teacher, not the boy teacher!!!" loud enough for everyone to hear...embarassing!! I finally told her that she could go with her "boy teacher" or we would go home instead, and after standing there silently for about 15 seconds (she was REALLY contimplating this decision), she decided to go with the rest of the class. THEN, she had no desire to stay in the water. She'd get in to do whatever they were doing at the time, but when he took her back to the wall, she was out of the water to sit on the side and watch (remember.....my kiddo is the one who loves "laying out", so maybe its too much to ask for her to stay in the water for 30 mintues!). She never really went under, but she was ok to put her face in the water. So all in all, I think it will get better througout the summer.......just as long as she also gets her laying out time:):)

After swim lessons, she got to play in the water fountain that they have at the new leisure pool at Tech. She really had more fun doing this than the lessons.......so bribe time!! We told her that next time she could only play in the fountain if she stayed in the water the whole time with her swim class. Sure enough, Wednesday night, Co Co said she stayed in the whole time (Dale & I were in Houston, so Co Co took her).

And she came home and decided to be a cowgirl in a bathing suit. I asked her what a cowgirl said and she said "hee haw" and tipped her hat at me....so cute!!