A Tribute to our Swim Teacher

We have just completed 3 weeks of swim lessons - I might add a very hot 3 weeks too! Megan, Haley, and Nathan all had lessons this year. Megan started out great but now thinks she should swim with her head out of the water instead of under - thanks grandma! She has decided that unless she is completely underwater swimming and diving for things (which she is great at), she needs to swim with her head up. Great! Haley is the calmest (if that is a word) floater ever. She goes completely comatose while floating on her back - she also mastered the freestyle and back crawl. She was so calm in the water that we tried to teach her how to tread water. Maybe we'll master that next year. They both started the summer a little cautious of the water and now I can't get them out. Nathan started the summer trained to put his life jacket on whenever we went swimming, and thanks to Ms. Michelle he thinks he can swim without it. He has come a long way and is a good swimmer for almost 3 years old. However, he still scares me. I'm not sure whether to be proud or worried. When he gets tired he starts to "bounce" on the bottom of the pool. Pretty funny to watch. It was great to watch him learn. He went from wanting to be held all the time to one day telling Michelle that he didn't want her help and swam the length of the pool without warning or prompting. All in all they all did great. Although it was sweltering hot watching them I am so glad we did swim lessons again this year. Thanks Ms. Michelle! Enjoy the pictures! Oh, I also added some pictures from the sad replacement water park that we went to when Tempe Town Lake was closed.