Swim Lessons Completed!

Today was the last day of Madeline's 2 week swim lessons. Madeline has slowly progressed but she is still not comfortable going under water and getting her face wet. Still battling that phobia. Madeline's friend, Mia, did great and is a natural fish under water! Above is their entire class with Miss Michelle before they all received their certificate of completion.

Madeline with her goggles, doing anything to prevent getting water in her eyes!


Giving me a "thumbs up" after she just practiced putting her face in the water with the instructor.


Swimming with Miss Michelle, can you see how HARD she's trying to keep her head above water? :-)


Madeline and Mia, always enjoy playing on the steps!



You can see in the above video how scared and hesitant she is about getting her face wet. The teachers were really patient with her though. Since it was the last day, they got to go down the water slides! Madeline got herself so terrified, while standing in line she needed to go to the restroom. So I took her and when we got back there wasn't enough time for her to go down the slide, I think she was okay with that though. ;-) So lots of practicing we'll be doing this summer to getting her more comfortable in the water (or under the water I should say). Maybe we'll do another session of the level 1 swim or private lessons.

Update - Swim & Hertz

So Madeline completed 1 week of swim lessons. She's progressing slowly. She's always had this huge fear of getting water on her face or putting her head under water. She keeps telling her teachers, Miss Michelle and Mr. Barry - "No I can't do it." They try to coax her into it, and a few times she's tried. She even jumped in the pool, went under water and then swam back to the stairs with Miss Michelle. But she only did it as long as she only had to do it "once" that day. :-) So we had a talk, and Madeline is ready for next week swim lessons. She said she wasn't going to say, "No I can't do it." and try out everything her teachers ask. So we'll see.

Not much of an update with Stephen's situation at work. His boss has yet to fill the Level 2 position. Stephen has been working his butt off. He just called a meeting on his day off last weekend with all the counter reps (the dept he now oversees) and that went well. Keep praying for this promotion, we really appreciate it! Thanks a million.

2 Weeks of Swim Lessons

Some pics from this week, Madeline and Mia in swim lessons...