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18
Jun 2010
Swimming Lessons
Well…can’t say we didn’t try. We really did – all parties involved. Ms. Nicole, Mommy, Asher, we all did our best at encouraging and working hard, but in the end we only made it through one of the two weeks of swimming lessons. Asher really started out pretty well, and he seemed to be excited about the idea of swimming, but three days into our little adventure he wasn’t so sure. Unfortunately for Asher (and all of us, ha!) we don’t have a pool at home, so we really haven’t been able to work with Asher on scooping and kicking. I keep trying to convince Jeremy we need to move to a house with a pool for Asher’s sake, but he’s not budging (shocker!) so I guess we’ll mooch off our friends, use our little play pool, and fill the bathtub up really high :). Anyways…
Asher’s achilles heel was keeping his mouth closed. He just couldn’t do it. We would practice all day long and he did great, but as soon as his little mouth would submerge he would open wide and stick his tongue out, and come up coughing and burping…oh my…he let out some of the manliest burps I have ever heard!!! I felt so bad for him, he just couldn’t get the hang of it. And then the straw that broke the camel’s back was when he threw up after he got out of the pool because he had drank so much water. That was not fun. So we were done…at least for this year. We’ll be back with Ms. Nicole next Summer, after a year of working with him on keeping bubbles in his cheeks :).
Here’s a little video of him when things were happy…
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You get and ‘A’ for effort Asher:) And so does your mommy!
The video is different from when we took him,so maybe our little guy just needs to take a little brake!He’ll do great next year!
He will get the hang of it! He sure knows how to kick good though!
He is so cute. Too this video doesn’t show the power that he has in the pool…he can even push his mom over with his strength! 🙂 Way to go Asher! We’ll keep practicing together!