Sarah Swimming Lessons

Sarah took her first swimming lessons this summer. It was a two week course that met for 1/2 hour each weeknight (except Fridays). She really enjoyed it, though I don't think that she learned very much from the course, except some confidence and excitement toward going to the pool, which I'm totally thrilled with (though I think that her cousin Ruby will help her with both of those in a few weeks in McCall [fingers crossed]). She gave her teacher hugs after class and loved standing in the shower after the lesson. One game they played was a "Shark" game where one of the kids would be out in the water and the other kids would say "Mr[s]. Shark what time is it?" and the "shark" was supposed to say something like 4:00 and the kids would take four overhand strokes toward the shark. Eventually the shark would say "dinner time" and try to catch one of the kids. Sarah loved this game and one time after she had complied with the norms of the game, she said "60 o'clock"... pretty cute! The kids all looked a little confused, but Sarah was beaming! Next year it will be both Nathan and Sarah. Here are some pictures:

Here we are before we left for her first swimming lesson, nothing but excitement!


Oh yeah, and they introduced the kids to lifejackets, which Sarah enjoyed. We bought her one recently so whenever she's in our little backyard pool, she wears it, you can never be too safe!