It was a big week this week…N graduated from his Water Babies swimming lessons. He had a great last week of swimming after swimming with them since he was 3.5 months old. Ok, so he still can’t (more like won’t) swim more than a little way, and even that takes some encouragement. But he loves…
Swimming with Mums or Dads
Following on from my post about Dads and family photographs, I’ve been thinking about swimming as well. In our swimming lessons, there’s quite often more Dads than Mums in the water, mainly because it’s a Saturday, and it seems to be more a dad thing to do with children, if they’re not at work. But…
New swimming strokes and butterfly legs
It was such a long time ago now I don’t really remember anything about learning to swim myself. I remember going to the leisure centre at primary school and learning crawl and back stroke but that was it. I never passed my bronze award because I couldn’t surface dive for 10 metres, and even at…
Swimming underwater and Nemo chats
Before our last swimming lesson it felt like such a long time since the session before Christmas. Needless to say we didn’t get to the pool over the Christmas holidays, but N didn’t seem too worried about the break. N really enjoyed being back in the pool…once he was in it. Getting him to actually…
Upcoming Water Babies swimming graduation
Today, we got N’s graduation letter and certificate from Water Babies. Sad occasion, but also a sign of how far he’s come. We don’t actually finish with Water Babies until he turns 4, so we’ll swim with them until the end of their term in February. Then it’s a change of class, although not pool…
