Swimming

The new season of community recreation classes have started and we have taken up swimming!  Nathanh and I are enrolled in a Wednesday morning swim class and Nathanh and Erwin are enrolled in a Saturday morning swim class!  I tagged along with Erwin and Nathanh today so that I could show Erwin the facility and help out with Nathanh...as well as take a few photos!

Nathanh and Daddy ready to get in the pool.

Front float and kicking practice.

Nathanh is a bit distracted here but this exercise is to teach the babies that they can grab onto the wall.  They try to reach the fish and then they can practice kicking in this position too.

Nathanh likes the water.  Sometimes he is serious, like the pictures here and other times he laughs and smiles.  Really, we just want him to have a positive experience in the water for now.  He is very easy going and does not mind getting water on his face or in his eyes.  One of the exercises that we have done is putting him under the water and he is not bothered by it.  He did not like my repeated attempts to get him to blow bubbles though!  I thought he would be a pro at it since he does it in his water cup all the time...apparently it is not quite the same experience in the pool!