Swim Class Champ

Alex took his first swim class this summer. It was a parent-tot class, so technically we both took a swim class this summer :-)

The combo of the swim class plus more time spent in the water this summer (a great way to spend the afternoon with a toddler on those looooong summer vacation days!) have turned him into quite a fish! I'm going to try to sign him up for a solo class this fall. He's supposed to be 3, but the class starts the week before his birthday, so I'll have to call and see if he can join anyway.

Here are a couple of pictures from his class "graduation." Yes, they are wearing medals! There were actually three kids in his class, but one didn't come on the last day.


Ok, I admit that Alex looks scared. He's standing on these little crenelation stair steps. No, I'm not holding his hand, but can I tell you how many times over the summer he climbed all over those stairs and I had to tell him to get down? (They are only about 6 inches off the ground, by the way, but still, I didn't want him to fall off.) So here, on the last day, there is my little scaredy cat, making me feel bad for taking a picture rather than holding his hand.


Now there is my little ham. Shaka, everyone! He is obviously pretty happy here. I think maybe he was just upset that he had to share that other picture with someone else!

You can kind of see the stairs in this shot, a bit Olympic, except that there isn't a taller one--a "no gold, we're all winners" kind of thing. Oh, and the medal has the swim school's logo on one side and a SHARK on the other side. He actually wore it the rest of the day and was so proud to tell everyone it was his shark medal, and then he'd bare his teeth and bite...in a very menacing way.