Summer Swimming
| June 17, 2009 | Posted by nancy under OUTSIDE |
Our kids are water babies and have enjoyed the pool from an early age. Ian started going to the pool with me at 2 or 3 months old in South Florida. He was jumping off the diving board with arm bands at 18 months. When he was 3-1/2 years old- off went the swim vest and he was swimming on his own.
Now at age six, he is on the Dye-Clay Dolphin swim team competing for that 1st place blue ribbon. His first meet was last Saturday and he didn’t even realize he was competing. He just went where his coaches told him to go and swam straight to the other end.
For the next 5 weeks, swimming will be a part of our lives- practices, swim meets, chlorine, goggles and sunscreen. Summer has arrived!
Gabe’s first meet he came in dead last, didn’t even realize it until breakfast the next morning.
And Becca spent her first two years trying “get all the colors” of ribbons. She wasn’t too competitive back then.
My kids will be relieved to find out that there’s a swim team close by.
Great pictures, BTW.