The past 2 weeks have been so busy! My older 3 have been taking swimming lessons in the afternoon every day for the past 2 weeks. They went in as complete non-swimmers and came out FISH!

L (almost 6) was in a class with 3 other little ones. She was the oldest one of the bunch, and I could really tell too - she was much more comfortable in the water even though she's never had lessons before. She floats great, jumps in fine, and even "streamlines" well.

G (9) and C (almost 8 ) were in a class with 4 others. WOW!!! They both had lessons 3 years ago, which were a big joke. They essentially started their lessons as complete beginners - they could hold their breath and that's it.

Well, I have no idea what all the different strokes are called (I was in a sunroom off the pool area, so I couldn't hear), but they both can swim (really swim!!!) from the shallow end to the deep end. Yesterday they were learning how to take breaths to the side properly as their arms came up. That sort of thing. In TWO WEEKS!

They take lessons at a family from church's house. The dad used to coach swimming at the collegiate level, and the mom used to compete on a national level. They have a pool IN their house. These are some SERIOUS swimmers, and they teach SERIOUS swimming lessons LOL!

The swimming lessons my boys took before (and the lessons I took) were more of the "well we won't drown" variety, but these lessons are of the "training for the Olympics" variety LOL! If we live here for a while and continue lessons, my kids will DEFINITELY be better swimmers than I am (and I had a pool growing up LOL)!

Well this family has a trapeze doo-hickey hanging above their deep end, and on the last day they have the kids hang on tight while people hoist them up. Then the kids let go, and SPLASH!! G got about waist-high out of the water, freaking the whole time. LOL! We had to coax him HEAVILY to LET GO OF THE BAR. LET GO WITH YOUR FINGERS. LOLOLOL. FINALLY he did, and his instructor jumped out to fish him out. He was coughing and gagging...I'm glad he didn't puke in their pool LOL!

C got up high enough to have his feet touching the water. He dropped off and then SWAM TO THE SIDE OF THE POOL!!! I was SO excited!

Can you believe that L got up to the CEILING? We're talking a good 12 feet! Splashed right on down and loved every minute of it. I was sure to tell her later how proud I was that she got up way higher than the BOYS. ;-)

They are all so bummed that lessons are over. I wish we had the money to have them take some more lessons this summer, but alas.... It has been tough timewise these past 2 weeks though. We live 30 minutes from their house (LOL we live 30 min. from EVERYTHING here!), and lessons lasted a total of an hour. So in all we were gone about 2-2.5 hours every afternoon. It has been crazy, and of course S hasn't been napping. (Not that she's great at sleeping anyway!) So in a way I'm not so bummed that lessons are over. ;-)