Swimming update

Went swimming with the kids to our gym pool yesterday. Its small but the same depth for the whole length. Evie can stand up in it, albeit on tip toes!

She’s coming on well, we don’t allow her to have armbands anymore as she has the confidence to swim without them. She has a tendency to swim ‘standing up’ at the moment as her backside sinks more readily than it should, but overall she is getting there. I think she’s getting too big for the pool and we need to get her a couple of lessons in the bigger public pool, so she can move on to swim out of her depth.

Isobel, in slight contrast, has a frightening amount of bravado, confidence and down right cockiness when she’s in the water. Still in armbands she virtually struts around in the pool. Always trying to climb out without using the steps, and then jumping back in when she does manage to haul her little body out.

She kept on and on about wanting to take her armbands off yesterday, so we obliged, she stood on the side saying she wanted to jump in, I said “you’ll sink!”, her reply “no I won’t”… well she jumped and of course she sank. Don’t you just love the blind adventure of em!