Swim Lessons!!

Hadley started swim lessons tonight at the YMCA.  She's in the "shrimp" class for children ages 6 months through 18 months.  She's the youngest in her class, but you wouldn't know it!  She's already got some of those older kids beat with her mad water skills.  Check them out below...

Above are pictures from Hadley's warm up with daddy before lessons started. 

Hadley started out on the kick board.  It's supposed to encourage her to kick her feet. 

 

We were going to try the dumbell but Hadley was too small to hold onto it.

Next, Hadley got to pick out a toy to throw and retrieve in the water.  She chose the little yellow rubber ducky. 

Hadley got to practice floating on her back.  She also enjoyed kicking her feet during this exercise!

We played "ring around the rosies" on a big swim float, which was a lot of fun for Hadley (and mommy too)!

The last two skill sets for the lesson were blowing bubbles and swimming on the belly. 

And finally at the end of Hadley's first swim lesson, she learned that she can still stick her toes in her mouth while in the pool!  Awesome!

Austin and I both took a few videos.  I will try to post one or two when I figure out how to get them to download onto the blog correctly.  Stay tuned............