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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Swimming lessons

It's taken a while but finally finally finally after the 5th swimming lesson, Lucy is putting her head IN the water more than she's not. Irony is, this is meant to have been our water-birth baby and she can't 'do' water hehehe This was the last class before badges next week, so now we just have to hold thumbs that she'll be able to do the 10m (width of the swimming pool) completely on her own, no stopping. She did this in August but on her back because she still refused to put her head in.
Aimee is doing well, she was moved to the advanced class eventhough she hadn't completed the 50m badge requirement. She has been finding it tough but has persevered. Her lessons start with at least 50m freestyle, then 10minutes of treading water, 50m of breaststroke and then some diving ! Today they had to do 100m of breaststroke, treading water, 25m freestyle and finish with some diving.... She found the 100m very long and the last 15m were veeeeeeeeerry slow but she made it - complained of a pain in her side afterwards :) Possibly her very first stitch hehehe She has done an awesome job and it looks like she'll prove to be a better swimmer than either of her parents !

2 comments:

Steven Chaplin said...

Wow, that is really good, you will have to encourage it, then we have the runner (Malcolm), the walker (Kim), the cycler (Andre) and the swimmer (Aimee), andthe rest of us are the trainers, first aid and support crew.

HannaMari said...

Steven Chaplin said...
Wow, that is really good, you will have to encourage it, then we have the runner (Malcolm), the walker (Kim), the cycler (Andre) and the swimmer (Aimee), andthe rest of us are the trainers, first aid and support crew.
... and the gymnast (Hanna) and the two dancers (ethan and Kyra).

Well done Aimee, keep trying Lucy, you know you can do it.