Summer of swimming

When I was in first grade, my Dad bought an eight foot round galvanized stock tank from Inter mountain Farmers and brought it home and placed it on our patio.  I was immediately in  love with it.  I spent my summers frolicking in the southern Utah sun, jumping endlessly from the trampoline into the stock tank.

This summer has probably been the first time since I out grew my childhood tank, that I have spent so much time in a swimming pool-mostly because public pools freak me out.  But this summer, we go swimming every morning at the University Club and I am in heaven.   Robin and Rue are my little swimming buddies, and all I want to do is swim with them year round.  I love the smell of the chlorine, I love the sun, I even love the pool side music played over the speakers!

But the swimming season ends for us on August 2nd, when swimming lessons are over for the year. And when they are over, I will probably have to go to therapy, I will me in total mourning! 

I am amazed at how much progress Christopher Robin has made in 2 weeks.  When he started this year, his only background in a pool was 2 weeks of lessons-pre-school level 1--which he didn't pass.

But now he is totally comfortable in the water and can kick around on his kick board without the teachers help.

Gracie stands by the sidelines and copiously watches Jace's class, and asks me a million times to go in the "big" pool.

She paces back and forth, learning how to swim by watching the other kids.

Yesterday, Jace kicked across the whole swimming pool to the deep end and back without any help.

He knew it was either sink or swim, so I think he chose to SWIM.

Well, enough on swimming.  But what I do know is that next summer I am going to plan ahead, I am joining the University Athletic Club!