Monday, October 31, 2016
Swimming lessons
Swimming lessons
Matthew started swimming lessons at the local leisure centre yesterday. He has new googles and swimming trunks for the occasion - its been a long time since he came swimming with us, because Louise cant swim and my eczema flared up after our last visit which has prevented me from going back.
As a result, he was quite nervous going into the water. He is in the beginners group, and at the moment they are just learning to float and get used to the water. Louise watched Matthew from the cafe (I was in work), and said that he didnt seem to enjoy putting his face in the water to collect hoops that had been dropped to the bottom of the pool. He also struggled to put the float around his body, and slipped a number of times trying to get in and out of the pool.
Despite all this, he was happy afterwards and is willing to go again. I had swimming lessons at a similar age, and Im glad I did - I used to enjoy swimming before my skin was too bad for me to go in. Its a shame I cant go in the pool with Matthew and Daniel as Im sure wed have a lot of fun.
PS: In case youre wondering why the blog hasnt been updated since January, read this post. Ive been blogging offline for the last three months and it has been good to upload all the posts and get back to normal this week!
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