Swimming Lessons

Since my little girl loves the water and has no fear of just jumping in, I decided that swim lessons were in order this summer.  Luckily, my cousins teach a class at their house a mile from my house, so no grand research project was in order.

Emmy loved all the attention and getting to swim like a big girl with Kayela and Kelley without her puddle jumper.  She may not have gotten super high marks on following instructions, and there were a few meltdowns over the course of the ten lessons...but we weathered the storm.

This was the first day when Kelley was teaching Emmy about using her "cups" to move the water.



Emmy wasn't super excited about putting her face in the water and blowing bubbles at first, but she caught on in no time.



These two were great at working fun games and breaks into the lesson.



She practiced floating as well.







Her kicks weren't strong enough in the beginning, so she needed to drill that skill.



She loved holding her breath and going underwater.



And then popping back up to scare us.



Eventually she was even swimming under water a little.





With plenty of breaks to jump into the pool.



These two did a fantastic job with Emmy this summer, and I can't wait to see how she changes over the next few summers because we will definitely be back! :)

Dance Moms: Season 1

Because Julie and I are glutton for punishment, we decided that we should enroll Emmy & Abby in a two day dance camp here in town.  In theory, it sounded like a great idea.  For $25 dollars, the girls would get to go to dance camp for two mornings and leave with valuable dancing experience and a t-shirt to boot.  Needless to say, that is not exactly how it went down in reality.



They were probably a little too young for an undertaking like this, so we spent both mornings feeling embarrassed by our two bad little divas that ran around the dance studio while everyone else participated and followed along.  In fairness to the divas, the class had children ranging from three to 18, so it wasn't as if anyone expected the fifteen-year-old kids to be running around the room.





They sure knew how to rock snack time though!



Back to goofing off!



The people were all very nice, but in the end, we decided to put everyone out of their misery and we left early the second day and took the girls swimming.



This is definitely more our style.







For now Dance Moms: Season One is on hiatus, but there  may be a new show on the horizon.  Stay tuned for Gymnastics Moms: Season One on a Facebook feed near you soon!