Splish Splash Fun

No summer would be complete without swimming lessons. Every night for two weeks, we carpooled to the University of Memphis for Swim School with two of our very favorite friends, Sage and Autumn. The improvements were certainly notable, but perhaps most exciting, the fear of the water (other than to wade and splash) seems to have dissipated. They're both willing to try new things in the water. My favorite Rebecca moment: watching from the bleachers, I saw the teacher step back from the side in the 5-feet-deep part, clearly urging Rebecca to jump in to her. Rebecca responded by visibly waving her hands to get the teacher to move even further from the wall. She then promptly leapt in and swam at full force to the teacher! My favorite Molly moment: while holding onto the kickboard, Molly swam out to the middle of the very big pool, got distracted and turned her head back, letting the kickboard float away in the process. Without even realizing she was swimming just fine on her own, she frantically tried to recover the board. I pointed this out to her later, to which she replied, "Well, yeah, I can swim. Duh, Mom." Guess I could have saved that swim school tuition money...