Diving Board

Yesterday Seth and Blane (!) started swimming lessons (second session for Seth). We lucked out that the boys are the only two kids in the class! Seth is definitely feeling more comfortable in the water--he jumped in several times and went all the way under. He even told Scott later that going underwater wasn't so bad "as long as you know about it". As opposed to going under against your will or accidentally, I guess.

Blane did great and charmed his teacher. I don't think she usually has students that young. He told her about every bug in the pool, which she had to remove so he would pay attention to her. He kicked and blew bubbles and halfway put his face in the water. Not too bad for his first time.

Zac sat out and watched the whole thing. The pool opened right after their lesson and I told the boys we could stay. Zac took off as usual. I generally glimpse him every few minutes somewhere towards the deeper end of the pool (don't worry, there are lifeguards there). He's really been self-motivated to try some new things, and yesterday he decided that he wanted to go off the diving board.

"Zac," I said, "you know you're going to go pretty deep when you jump off the board. Maybe you should practice going deep."

He pushed down from the side of the pool to the bottom and swam back up several times. Then he decided to jump from the side. After a couple of wet runs (wow, I was trying to be cute but that sounds really bad!), it was board time. He got up there, contemplated his decision, and went off the side of the board. After he got comfortable with that, he went off the front of the board (which is really the same as the side of the board, but somehow seems more scary, of course). Then he started doing cannonballs. Seth was quite impressed (so was I). So now, he's added one more skill to his repertoire.