Swim Lesson #3

I started to title this one 'What! No Crying?', but thought I'd stick with the numerical order.

Serif was awesome this lesson! He certainly impressed us with how well he did and we were shocked that he did it all without fussing! The only time he cried was when we were getting in to the pool. It took Jeff and I both a few minutes to get in the water because it was so cold! I think Serif was feeling the same way and when we finally just plunked in, he screamed. After some snuggling and walking around to get use to it, we started on the laps. He cried a little during the first lap, but after that we only saw a pleasant little face and even got some smiles! After 15 minutes of laps I thought for sure when it came time to jump in he would cry, but no. He didn't even act like he was going to! Amazing!

We got to take this little frog bath toy with us for this lesson to help him with the 'this is fun!' idea. He didn't play with it when we were in the water, but he did enjoy it's encouraging hops and 'Yay Serif!'. =)

I didn't know this until this lesson but Jeff gets so nervous and worked up every Wednesday from the time he gets up in the morning until lessons are over. He hates to see Serif so upset and just stresses over it. Hopefully after the encouragement of such a great lesson his stress will be much lighter next week. Here are a few photos of Jeff and Serif when we first got to the pool before we started getting in to gear. I love Serif's expression in each of these and couldn't pass up posting all 3 photos. Can you see Jeff's stress in the 3rd picture below? hehehe.

Here's a video of the last jump-in and lap. His jump-in was a little bit of flop, he normally goes a little deeper than this, but he still did great!!!



Serif, we're so proud of you buddy!