Little fish

Elizabeth has turned into our little fish. At the beginning of the summer we went to the beach with Bill's family. She was happy as a clam swimming around the pool in her little "puddle jumper" life jacket/water wing thing. She did not want her face wet at all. After the first session of swimming, she was not improved at all. I talked to the swimming director, and we pushed her up a class where she would be challenged a bit. We played "dunk you til you like it" one day at the pool, and I made her go under repeatedly and pulled her through the water. It paid off. During lessons now when it isn't her turn, she is underwater. Bill worked with her in the pool one day and got her to jump in without being caught. She swims by herself for a little ways now, she only starts to drown when she has to stop and take a breath. We are going to barrel on through another session before school starts.