Swim Report

Both kids are doing great in the water - I am so impressed with how quickly they are progressing!

Norah has long been comfortable in the water, but she's really gaining in confidence this summer.  She can easily handle swimming with a noodle or a flutter board on her own and is starting to try to dog paddle over to me. She's taking swimming lessons through daycare again this year, but resists any suggestions from her dear old Mom.. sometimes I am blown away by how much she is like me, not always in a good way either (Ask my Dad sometime about my foray into mini-volleyball..)

Roddie is also doing great - on several fronts.  On the swimming side, he is very comfortable in the water, and does not hesitate to walk in up to his chest, or play in and out of the water at the shore.  He's also doing great with blowing bubbles and can almost handle the noodle and flutter board on his own also - though he's way over is head and I am not comfortable with him doing this on his own yet.  He also loves to be held around the waist or belly and "swim" around - back and forth between Matt and I.  The only problem is he likes to lunge from one to the other, seemingly unaware that he can't actually swim!

The other beach news for Roddie is that is he orders of magnitude better about sand on his hands and feet than he was at the beginning of the summer.  Where he used to insist on using a shovel or other implement, he will now dig around with his hands.  He doesn't seem to mind the sand on his feet after the first few minutes any more either.  He does like his hands clean when he's done playing, but who can really blame him for that!

We are so glad we live by the lake and our kids get to go swimming a few times a week, despite the fact that we have to work Monday thru Friday.  It's not the carefree weeks I spent on the beach as a kid, but not too many people get to do that - even back then!