Last summer Miss Judy and Miss Briley decided they weren't doing swim lessons anymore and we were DEVASTATED.
This Summer Miss Briley had a change of heart and opened up her Beach Club to us! Waverly was ESPECIALLY lucky and got to spend two different sessions with Miss Briley (one was while Delainee and Laetner were still doing workshop with me) It worked out perfect for Court to take her everyday. And per ALL my other children she cried EVERY day. Luckily she broke the trend of throwing up in the pool everyday as well--- a trend I am certain that Briley was happy to see broken.
Wavee would NOT stop crying if Daddy stayed to watch, so he was asked to leave the premises! Ü Luckily Aunt Shelby was one of the helpers in the pool and she would give me the lowdown on how Wavee was doing during this first session. Apparently she was told that she could only cry when it was her turn, so she would wait patiently on her pool step, and then sure enough when it WAS her turn she would start squawking. And she just didn't seem to understand the task of going under the water to retrieve a ring at the bottom of the pool. She would just go under water with her eyes WIDE open and just GRIN!
By the 2nd Session, when Delainee and Laetner were able to come, Wavee was "a big girl now!" She never cried, she made it down to get the ring, she walked like a monkey, made it to the side after diving in, kicked and pulled, splashed everyone on the pool step, waited her turn on the diving board, played "wake up Wavee", tasted the water, EVERYTHING! (although she would sneak out of the pool and run around in circles---that naughty thing!)
We don't have a pool, and I am a little shy of the sun, so we don't always get a lot of practice swimming, but this was the summer that EVERYTHING finally came together for both Delainee and Laetner. We had big strokes, and big kicks, and finally seem to have mastered the side breath.
Thank you Miss Briley!
This Summer Miss Briley had a change of heart and opened up her Beach Club to us! Waverly was ESPECIALLY lucky and got to spend two different sessions with Miss Briley (one was while Delainee and Laetner were still doing workshop with me) It worked out perfect for Court to take her everyday. And per ALL my other children she cried EVERY day. Luckily she broke the trend of throwing up in the pool everyday as well--- a trend I am certain that Briley was happy to see broken.
Wavee would NOT stop crying if Daddy stayed to watch, so he was asked to leave the premises! Ü Luckily Aunt Shelby was one of the helpers in the pool and she would give me the lowdown on how Wavee was doing during this first session. Apparently she was told that she could only cry when it was her turn, so she would wait patiently on her pool step, and then sure enough when it WAS her turn she would start squawking. And she just didn't seem to understand the task of going under the water to retrieve a ring at the bottom of the pool. She would just go under water with her eyes WIDE open and just GRIN!
By the 2nd Session, when Delainee and Laetner were able to come, Wavee was "a big girl now!" She never cried, she made it down to get the ring, she walked like a monkey, made it to the side after diving in, kicked and pulled, splashed everyone on the pool step, waited her turn on the diving board, played "wake up Wavee", tasted the water, EVERYTHING! (although she would sneak out of the pool and run around in circles---that naughty thing!)
We don't have a pool, and I am a little shy of the sun, so we don't always get a lot of practice swimming, but this was the summer that EVERYTHING finally came together for both Delainee and Laetner. We had big strokes, and big kicks, and finally seem to have mastered the side breath.
Thank you Miss Briley!
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