Somehow it just wouldn't feel like Summer if we didn't have swimming lessons. Fuller has graduated out of swimming lessons, so it was just these two this year.
Grayson has always swam like a fish, but Rowan is never quite as certain about getting in the pool.
He had a really nice teacher who helped him improve his front crawl quite a bit. Side breathing has been kind of hard for him to do, but by the end of lessons he was really getting it.
He much prefers to swim on his back and keep his face out of the water.
Grayson has reached the point in swimming lessons where they're working on perfecting the different strokes. This Summer he actually got his butterfly looking pretty good.
Diving continues to be a struggle for him though. His teacher had him start out trying a standing dive. But after some major belly flops she changed and had him try kneeling dives.
And after that didn't work, sitting dives. Poor kid just can't get his head around going head first in the water. I think it might be genetic, I'm the exact same way. On the last day of lessons he did finally get one halfway decent kneeling dive.
Thankfully Rowan didn't have to try diving. He's content to just jump in.
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