Between neighbors, friends and my parents house we spent the rest of our summer in a pool. It is the only way to survive the summer heat and with four little fish there is nothing they would rather do EVERY day! The kids grew leaps and bounds with their swimming abilities this summer...and it had nothing to do with swimming lessons...no need for those we had Grandpa. He worked with the kids everytime he came out swimming with us. He worked on their diving, strokes and kicking...and it shows.
Taryn has a beautiful dive now and can swim all the way across the pool and a little more holding her breath...Grandpa keeps encouraging her to do more with stories of how he and I are the champion underwater swimmers at summer camp...but she is happy with one length of the pool. She much prefers to be a dolphin in the water or some other animal than to work on strokes, but she is just as much a fish as the rest.
Drake has a beautiful dive as well and he too can now swim all the way across the pool in one breath. He loves working on his strokes with Grandpa and at times can be quite amazing. He has also started attempting flips from the side which can be a little scary at times...
Not surprisingly, Hadyn is a free little spirit in the water...off in her own world at most times. But she loves to dive as well and as gotten pretty good...though this day she was just being goofy. She can now swim to the bottom of the deep end of the pool all by herself and she loves to swim down to go under my legs. She also loves doing flips under the water and silly dance moves which always make me laugh. My little fish #3.
And then there is Dax...who tries to keep up, and do everything everyone else does. He has no fear which can be scary but quite entertaining at the same time. He has always jumped in whenever he feels like it and we have worked long and hard to get him to wait until someone is looking...he has gotten a little better...but my eyes rarely leave him while we are swimming. He can now swim about 4 feet and LOVES to be under water. He has discovered jumping in backwards which we thought was cute the first time and then not so much after that seeing how close he got to the wall. He has also tried flipping like Drake...which we had to put an end too as well. He loves jumping off diving boards but at the Winters house he prefers their highest wall...which is much higher then the diving board. Yes, he is crazy, but he is also number 4 and a boy...I think it comes with the territory. He has finally mastered swimming in a tube...though it never lasts too long...because he just can't sit still. This kid keeps me going...
Watch out swim team next year...do you think they will let Dax on???
