swimming!

These boys love swimming!
(Photo-graphs courtesy of Mr. Cox)
These goggles are a new addition to William's swimming outfit. It's just as of late that he has been interested in goggles, and now he is very excited about them. He was so excited for a while, that he would wear them in the car to/from the pool.
Findlay will be starting his third session of swimming lessons. He loves being in the water!

I go back and forth between thinking this is amazing and thinking it's terrifying.

Skinny Finney!

(aka Fierce Finney!)


William has gone through stages where he has not wanted to go under-water, jump or dive in, or really do much in the water, aside from play with (i.e. reach for or throw) balls (apparently very "normal"... but very tiresome for me, when trying to keep up with a class). Upon the recommendation of our instructor, we started going to open swim each week--and allowing William to play in the water on his own terms--to get William excited about the water again. It worked--and fast! As of a few weeks ago, he was able to swim (on his own) underwater for 8 seconds, and as of last weekend, he was up to 11 seconds!!! We are pretty impressed, especially considering that it wasn't too long ago that he was in one of his anti-underwater phases. We think we're past the point of wavering fear now, and hope that the next session of swimming (starting next week!) will be very beneficial to his swimming skills.

The goggles seem to have been a bit tight...

standing in the hot tub