Noah started swim lessons last week. These pictures are from tonights lessons. He is taking swim lessons where I took and taught lessons growing up. He loves splashing around but he doesn't like getting his head under, so we are slowly working on it. We have good fun splashing around just the same! Everyone asks me what they work on at this age. Honestly, it is mostly just getting them comfortable in the water. The age for this class is 6mos-3yrs, so there is a big age difference. If anyone is thinking about doing it for their little ones I definitely recommend doing it!! The earlier the better. I'm seeing with Noah that now he won't close his mouth to go under the water and he is very leery about getting his head wet. He is definitely more timid now than he would've been at 6-9 mos (which was fall/winter for us so too cold to swim). A trick they teach (I've heard this one before) to get babies to hold their breath under water is to blow in their face which causes them to suck in, as soon as they suck in you can put them under. However, that typically only happens 9mos and younger, so he's a little to old and won't do that anymore. He is adorable in his Joe Cool sunglasses though!!
