Swimming

At the ripe age of 7 years and 11 months, Layla can swim 25 meters and tread water for 30 seconds at the end of that swim- the requirement to go in the deep end and off the diving board at our local pool. She's way ahead of her mom :) If you know me well enough- you know what I mean, so it's good I don't let all of my dislikes and fears pass on to the kids. She even runs and bounces at the end to jump in. It took my camera a few tries to actually get her in the air, but here's a splash.


Here she is in action! Since this first day of diving board experience she has perfected her cannon ball and straight jump in!


Ryan's quite a little swimmer too- just not confident enough yet. He can swim to that rope all the way across, but does not like to! He loves to jump in (he cannot touch the bottom) and either swim to mom or dad a little bit out or turn around and swim back to the side.


Here he is swimming!

Another favorite of his is to see how far down he can go down and how long he can hold his breath for. Today at the pool (about a week after this photo) he taught himself how to do back flips under the water by pushing off the ladder (of course I didn't have my camera and don't normally because a parent has to be in the water because he is so young).

We try our best to make it to the pool every afternoon in the horrible heat! I go back to work at the end of the week :(, so we'll see how often we get to go. Layla goes back to school Aug. 6th and Ryan's birthday is 29 days too late for GA Kindergarten. We are trying to enjoy the heat and swimming outside before we move to CO. From what I hear and read it gets hot there too, but usually cools off in the evenings-the 50s or 60s- unlike here where 75 is cooling off at night.

As things are right now, we still won't be moving until Oct. or Nov. So, that's going to be a huge temperature change for us- not to mention the altitude- going from sea level to a mile high! We wish it would happen sooner, but are anxiously waiting for the official word.