I’ve been out of touch for a couple weeks. Mostly because I was too shell-shocked to write. And much of that was due to the fact that it was swimming lesson time for the Winters Kids. At some point during the spring, I thought it would be the perfect arrangment to sign both kids up for swimming lessons at the same time. As of June, Mylie was finally old enough to take lessons without me, so I could be free to take lessons with Nolan. And technically, it was the perfect plan.
What I didn’t account for was trying to navigate the locker room with the three of us, all wet and sloppy. Yikes. I have to say that our community pool does NOT have the most, shall we say, accomodating facilities. There are family changing rooms, but only 4 or 5, and with classes turning over with only a 10 minute break, you have sit waiting around for one for quite awhile. It would generally take 40 minutes after lessons just to get us showered off, dried, and clothed… That was with me going as fast as humanly possible, and neglecting to feed my poor starving baby. Mylie and I didn’t do our hair for the entire two weeks 
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Other than that exhausting daily ritual, the lessons went over “swimmingly”. Haha, excuse the pun. I had spent a good 2 months preparing Mylie that she was going to have to be on her own with her teacher, without Mom. She’s VERY afraid of getting her face wet, though she loves jumping off the side of the pool and going down the big slide (can you say, contradiction?). But she did very well – much better than the two boys in her class, both of whom spent most of the two weeks crying on the side of the pool. Mylie more or less had her own private lessons. Especially because Nolan’s class started and ended 5 minutes late every day, so Mylie’s teacher just hung out with her in the pool for the extra 5 minutes. Thanks Kelsey!
Nolan, my “No Fear” child, loved the water, and was kicking and reaching from day one. He doesn’t even mind getting splashed, which was a nice change from my last 2 years of mommy & me swimming lessons. He even had a (fairly) good time going down the big water slide twice on the last day!
Unfortunately, good pictures are hard to get in the indoor pool, so we have few to exhibit. If you really want to see them swim, I guess you’ll just have to come with us sometime!
