Swim Lessons

 Eli swimming the full length of the pool!






This post is SO long over due! UGH! I'm so behind!-

 Waaaaaaaay back in February, I started looking into swim lessons for the boys. I knew they needed private lessons, but I was hoping they could still do them together.(There was no way one was going to wait on the other while the other one sat out.) CYS promised me they were hiring a new guy that would be perfect for the boys, and they would contact me as soon as his paperwork goes through........ Fast forward SIX months, and they finally called and the boys started swim lessons in July. YAY!

It only took one lesson to figure out trying to do both boys at the same time wasn't going to work. Ha! So they arranged two teachers at the same time for both boys to have private lessons! Double yay! It was great-Minus the lovely Alabama thunderstorms in the summer afternoons........

This was our first lesson- Both the Rich boys at the same time! Give that man a medal!

Second lesson- Mr. Rayn with Eli and Ms. June with James in the background.
 

James doing the back float!

On Fridays, they get to do the diving board!

Eli diving for sticks.

 

 

 Unfortunately, after James broke his arm only a couple weeks into swim lessons, he didn't want to get into the water with his cast! It has taken a while, but he is finally back in the pool! Lessons have been moved to the indoor pool and Mr. Ryan is back to teaching them together again. It's a little easier now because he knows Eli is a super swimmer now, but it's still chaotic! Next month I'm going to try to get them slots back to back. Eli has come a long way with his waiting skills..... I think they  can do it!

P.S. Mr. Ryan is AWESOME! He has ADHD himself and that's why his mother put him in swimming. He totally gets my boys and is SUPER patient with them!