Brighton's Swimming Lessons

Brighton and I have been taking swimming lessons through Raleigh Parks and Rec at the Millbrook Pool. We have 8 lessons scheduled and we meet on Monday and Wednesday mornings for 4 weeks. This past week the instructor had to cancel on Wednesday, so we'll hopefully get a make-up lesson scheduled soon.

Luckily Dad was able to come to one of the lessons to take some pictures, otherwise we probably wouldn't have any proof of this. He did take some video too on the Flip, but I still haven't figured out how to put videos on the blog. I'm sure it's simple, just haven't taken the time yet....hopefully soon.

Brighton's class is small (only 3 kids) so that is great. Brighton loves to practice blowing bubbles as seen here:

This class is seen as more of a "water immersion" class, meaning that the students aren't expected to swim independently, but they should be used to the water and willing to go to another parent or the teacher without hesitation. Brighton easily does this and often tells me, "Me do myself" when we are practicing kicking. In other words, he wants me to let go of him so he can swim! We are not there yet, but hopefully soon.

I've actually looked into hiring a private swim instructor to come to our backyard pool this summer for lessons. If another family joins us, it should be affordable, and not much more expensive than lessons through Raleigh Parks and Rec. Yeah! We will have two little fish soon!