Moving up in Swimming

Now he is no Michael Phelps, but he is pretty close! :) Corbin is doing so great in swimming. He can swim about 20 feet on his own and is doing great with his dog paddling for breaths. The first couple weeks when they were learning to come up for a breath, Corbin would come up, but take no breath. It was cute....the teacher would tickle him and say,"BREATH!!!"

He loves his swimming class and he has come so far. (Corbin has been in swimming on and off since he was 3) This is a boy that was scared to go under water when he was 3 yrs old...now I am having to tell him to stay above water when the teacher is talking! :)

We are going to keep him in swimming this fall and he is so excited. He thinks it is "totally awesome" to go swimming in the winter. Corbin was moved up to the next level, so today he got a reward ribbon. Corbin thought that was pretty cool, after I explained what it was. You should of seen his face when the teacher gave him this ribbon. He was like, "what the heck is this thing?" He is used to big cool trophies from soccer and metals from Little Gym sports. So once I told him that a ribbon is cool like a trophy, he got into it!

Mr. Chirs is Corbin's teacher! Corbin thinks he is cool, because he gets to do cannon ball jumps with him. They are real good about safety at this school. From day one they taught the kids to jump in and swim to the nearest side. Last week they put life jackets on everyone and put them in a raft (boat) and talked about boat safety. The kids loved that...because the teachers dumped them over in the boat and talked about what to do. Corbin had a big smile on his face and loved when the big waves came and Mr. Chris would turn them over!

At the end of each class they get to go down the big water slide (behind Corbin)....another highlight of swim lessons. As you can tell by Corbin smile....it is "totally awesome!" We are so proud of our little swimmer.