Leap of Faith

Tonight was night 2 of swimming lessons. The boys did a great job tonight! Chad got a few pics of the boys to share. He wasn't able to catch the action shot of Gray jumping off the diving board, he had already landed and all you could really see was the life guard. We are so proud of him! He was really good in the water tonight. There was only 1 incident where the life guard made him go underwater, not intentionally I don't think, but he broke down and had to sit out for a few minutes...after that he hopped back in and got right back into it! Jackson is catching on really good and really likes to be in the water, he'll be a good swimmer. Harrison wanted out of the pool tonight, he wanted to "go play". He was ready to go down the slide at the end though and after doing that 3 times he wanted to jump off the diving board...by then all the life guards were out of the water though so he was out of luck. I did take them back down to the shallow water and let them all jump off the side with me catching them. They were having a blast! There are no pictures of that and I think that's where they had the most fun! Harrison only did it a few times and then Jackson and Gray took turns. Towards the end I started making them go under when they jumped in, not for long but long enough to get them used to it. They did a really good job and then Gray even started putting his face in the water when I was helping him swim over to the ladder! WOW! Gray has totally surprised me..although it is still early in the lessons! I'm hoping by the end of this week he won't be scared anymore. So far it's been a great few days of lessons. Hopefully it will just keep getting better!

Harrison coming off the slide. He did it 3 times tonight, we got to the top of the ladder last night and he backed out of doing it.
Jackson jumping off the diving board.
Jackson coming up for a breath while learning to swim.
Gray taking a break with Jackson in the background.
Jackson taking a break. They seem to do alot of this!
Harrison "floating" on his back, he was not real cooperative tonight.

Jackson posing before lessons got started.