Progress

Today was a great pool day, and we spent much of the day there. Ben is making definite progress with swimming, after his first week of lessons at camp. He'll now go under water much further than he would ever go before. He used to not want to put his head under, or if he did he would put it under barely far enough to get the top of his head wet. Today he was dunking under and touching the bottom of the pool with his hand (granted he was in the 3 foot end of the pool, but still -- his head was several inches below the surface). He also was showing us how he could swim -- sort of -- putting his face in the water and swimming for a few strokes. Unlike previous attempts he actually got his legs up to the surface of the water this time to kick. Good job Ben! With seven weeks of lessons to go, we might have a full-fledged swimmer on our hands by the end of the summer!