Better late than never...

Grandma Peggy came by a while back and took pictures of our sweet little babies at swim lessons, since we obviously couldn't do it. Kayda can swim around on her own with the noodle now. She just lays over it and kicks her way around the pool. She loves it! We also let her try a life jacket and she really enjoyed that too! She was actually wanting to wear it at home and fell asleep in it once! She absolutely LOVES to jump in from the side. She's gotten really good about waiting until we tell her to go. She'll end up touching the bottom of the pool and can get herself back up to the surface most of the way. She's just shy of getting her mouth out of the water to take a breath so we watch her real close. She can also climb out of the pool on her own and climb along the walls to get where she wants to go.


Dillon has always been really good about floating on his back. He's not perfectly comfortable but he does MUCH better than Kayda does. She does not like being on her back. She'll do it but wants to flip over as quickly as possible. Dillon can hold on to the wall as well, he can't crawl along it yet but he enjoys holding onto it. The only problem is he also likes to "eat" the walls so we can't let him stay there for long. We let him "jump" as well. Kayda likes to help him, we'll say "ready, set, go" and she'll help by pushing from behind. He does really well going under water. We just count to three and pull him under the water towards us. It's so much fun swimming with them! We're taking a break this month which Kayda isn't too happy about. If she sees her swimsuit or swim diapers she'll start trying to put them on and she'll start doing the arms for the crawl stroke to let us know exactly what she wants to go do. She even knows where the pool is. We were driving past it to go to Costco yesterday and she pointed to the place where we turn into the parking lot for the pool. She's so smart! I'm proud to say that I have the water babies that I've always wanted!