On Monday, Max spent most of the day with the life jacket on but did take it off for a few practice strokes. On Friday, as long as he was swimming to an adult, he preferred to have it off. He can swim about a 1/2 length without it. Obviously, he's not ready to swim on his own yet but I bet with some swim lessons this winter, by next summer he'll be ready for the swim team!
On Monday, Max thought he wanted to try jumping from the diving board. He would walk out at far as the hand rails then change his mind and go back. On Friday, Max decided he really wanted to jump from the diving board. His first few trips were quite funny. He was really nervous about that walk. He'd crouch way down and sort of scoot to the end then sit on the end and jump from a sitting position. After a couple times like that he realized he wasn't having as much fun as his brother, and he learned to walk the whole way. It wasn't long before his brother was encouraging him to try twists and cannon balls.
Speaking of Nate, he learned a new trick too. One of the great things about Nate is that he will watch someone doing something, decide he wants to figure it out and he will just keep working at it until he gets it. On Friday there was girl doing all sorts of cool dives. Nate decided he wanted to learn how to do an inward. So he asked her a couple questions and started working on it. In under an hour, he was doing them.
So far this tenacity only applies to physical things- I hope someday it applies to school work!
1 comment:
That was awesome! (and quite daring but oh so "dangerboy-like") Lazy days at the pool rock! Looks like you've had some nice ones!
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