Swim Lessons

Silas started swim lessons last week. He goes for two weeks Monday thru Friday for 25 minutes. He was so excited about it- until he had to get in the water. He didn't want to do it. After his teacher, Miss Desirae, finally got him in he was fine. Until she wanted to take him away from the edge. I was not really expecting him to act this way- but I'm sure a big swimming pool without Mom or Dad in there is scary to a 3 year old. After his first lesson I asked him why he was so scared and he told me "That water is big Mom." But then he made sure we were coming back again. These pictures are all from his first day- which was interesting. All but one other kid had done lessons before. You can see the little girl that had not done lessons behind Si in one of the pictures- Just check out her face!
I will say though that each day Silas got better. He will now do a 'bob' (go under), blow bubbles, push off the edge and jump to Miss Desirae, and relax when he is not hanging on to the edge. He did these things each day (other than the first) and tried something new each day too. I think he finally is enjoying it. It will definately be awhile before he is even close to swimming but he is getting a good start.