Well, we are in week 5 of Aqua Tot swimming lessons and Anya has really taken to the water. The first few lessons she was pretty tentative and always made sure she was hanging on to one of us somehow. Then, she started getting a little braver and would let go briefly to swim and splash on her own. Then, one night she decided she had more fun being off on her own and didn’t need us around slowing her down. So, her teacher suggested that we let her get in the water by herself tonight and have one of us waiting on the sidelines to jump in if she got spooked in the water. So, that is what we did and she did absolutely fabulous. She swam the whole 30 minutes all by herself (with the aid of her float belt of course) and had fun waving and splashing at us on the edge of the pool. She even jumped in off the side of the pool several times and came up all giggles.

Here is a link of a few minutes of her swimming lessons from tonight. The quality isn’t the greatest, but you get the idea: