Julie's Boggle

Last Wednesday was our tenth and final lesson in the WaterBabies “Beginners” series. And as a rare treat, Tom had taken a day off work and was along to watch, provide an extra pair of hands, and get some footage for us. (And to take Mommy for lunch afterwards! )

As far as the lessons go, Jon has certainly seemed to enjoy it more and more as the term progressed. He’s had many more underwater swims and has never cried afterwards. (Although we have seen some coughing and spluttering following the incautious technique of going under water with his mouth open!)

In the photo above, Jon is demonstrating his aptitude for floating on his back while I join the sing-along and do the actions for “Twinkle-twinkle little star”.

Jon loves the “falling in” simulations, and has also amused the teacher no end by spending a large portion of several lessons with his mouth slightly open, in a little smile, and his tongue out. During the bits where I drag him forward in the water, as in the photo below, this does tend to give him the appearance of an excited puppy!

(The photo above was extracted from a video so the quality is not brilliant.)

Tom did have our camera in its underwater housing and just as the lesson ended, we had two attempts at getting an underwater picture of Jon…

As you can imagine, this was not the easiest thing to pull off from a crouching position on the side of the pool, and what you see on the left was the only picture we got! Ah well.

With our trip to SA overlapping the start of the next term, we’re going to be moving to the Intermediate class that starts only after we get back, and half a term behind the current one. This also gives the new, and slightly unfortunate, starting time of 09h00! (Currently we’re in the 12h00 class.)

That time is going to be a push and no mistake, but it’s a short term and there are other advantages to starting earlier, so I guess we’ll just bite the bullet on the one. Watch this space for more swimming adventures to come!