Aquaman

Well, still no pictures...

I'm so proud of Justin. We've had several attempts at swimming lessons and up until 2 weeks ago, the kid still didn't like to put his face in the water. It is pretty hard to learn to swim if you don't want to get your face wet! And yes, we've always had goggles for him. It has been frustrating, because he loves to swim in a pool with his floats on.

We've been taking the kids to the pool on the weekends, and 1 week ago he finally started putting his head underwater. Then we arranged for 5 straight days of private lessons for Justin and Brooklyn for 1/2 an hour each day (2 1/2 hours total). So then on the weekend when we went to the pool again, all of a sudden Justin could swim - head in the water doing a front crawl, doing rolls, floating on his back, jumping into the pool and then recovering and swimming away, etc.! All of a sudden it just all clicked, and he was loving it!

It is really nice to see him gaining confidence, and overcoming something that was a great fear (head underwater). Now I'm really looking forward to our upcoming holiday! Afternoons at the pool are going to be a blast!