she believed she could....: karen dunkley

Monday, June 9, 2014

First day of Swimming lessons

They were in the same class this year for the first time. They have both moved up to the lap lessons. Lots and lots of laps. However, Flower's technical ability still lends a clue to their difference in age.I adore their swimming suits!

Learning dives again.

River

Flower

She is so graceful and elegant. She just glides into the water with hardly a splash!

River

Flower

Practicing jump dives off the side before trying it off the diving board.

River...didn't quite make it :)

Flower

She seems like she's going take a big jump and then stops and squats and barley hops off. ;)

River

She power jumps off that board.

Flower

River

They both did great!

Thursday, June 27, 2013

flower's last day of swimming lessons and river's reprise

the first monday of the second week of their lessons we were jumping on the trampoline waiting for their session to start. flower sprained her ankle. no swimming lessons for her for several weeks! so river finished out the week and flower finished a few weeks later. her last day was june 27th. the cool thing was that since river had to go with them anyway, karen invited river to swim with them so the next day she brought her suit and got three extra days of swim lessons! river is a strong swimmer so karen new it would be good for her. i was really impress with both girls! this make-up week ended up being a laps class with older kids, like 10-12, and both river and flower kept up just fine! they are so awesome. they swam lap after lap and did just what they were supposed to do. through this i discovered that my girls aren't necessarily leaders. when they were with their own age they did just fine and what everyone else was doing. but when they were put with the older group they kept up and excelled passed their potential and didn't complain about it. they just did was everyone else was doing and didn't realize they were doing harder stuff because that's what was happening around them. it's good for me to know because i will now put them in harder things so they push themselves. i am so proud of both of them!