Swimming

Ethan finished his first season of real swimming lessons. He and I did a Mommy and Me class when he was little but since then he has not had any formal lessons. This summer, he took a one week class and although he experienced some major anxiety, by the end of the week he was jumping off the side of the pool and swimming to one of the teachers. We cannot wait to see how he progresses as the summer goes on! Ben and I definitely have to work with him on his kicking but he at least has the right idea.

His teacher, Jamie, told us at his last class that earlier he had said to him, "You're doing such a great job, where did you get your big strong muscles from?" and Ethan replied without so much as a thought, "From God up in heaven." Talk about bringing tears to a Mommy's eyes! We are so blessed to be able to talk to him about what an awesome God we serve and do little things to build his faith. I pray that his heart stays in a place that is so open.

Here's a short video of one of his jumps. Caden is hilarious at the end because evidently he wasn't too thrilled with the attention Ethan was getting and told him he had to go to Time Out :-)

Now we are trying to reinforce what he has learned so that he doesn't forget what to do. Many of our evenings from now on will look like this...

  

And then there's this one who is completely fearless already...