Swimming Lessons

Trevor started swimming lessons on Saturday! The day started bright and early and we actually had to wake the little sleepy head up at 7:30 so we could get to the lessons on time at 8:15 (well, technically we thought they were at 8 but we digress....)

So we got to spend some time checking out the pool and getting used to the space:


And before we knew it, it was time for Baby Backfloat! Trevor proudly walked over to his area with Dada:


But wasn't so sure when the teacher wanted him to come to her. He's going through a 'shy' stage!

Once in the water with Dada he was just fine!

And that folks is pretty much the last smile you'll see from our little guy. After that he wanted nothing to do with swimming and all of the interesting tactics the teacher used to get them used to the water, such as this shower:

and the full bucket of water:

He wasn't a fan of laying on his back either. Maybe because of his ears? He did keep tugging on them :( but the teacher helped him ease into it. You can almost hear the cries though!

Trevor must have thought he was all done with swimming at this point because they were sitting on the edge doing 'humpty dumpty' and he was fine. Just wait buddy...remember that humpty dumpty fell off the wall!

Eek!

Time for your strokes! Yep, still not happy!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Nothing can make him happy!

And then the worst thing happens. He reaches out and just keeps saying "Mama! Mama!" How Mommy just wanted to jump in and save him and never make him go back there again :(

The teacher said it will just take some time, especially if we've been avoiding water in his ears and whatnot because of all of his ear infections. So she helped him a bit:

We're pretty sure that Trevor and Cecelia were talking to each other in this picture saying "now what? let's get outta here!" Well at least the tears stopped for a bit.

Then back to the tears...

Hopefully the next lesson goes much better for Trevor. Swimming is supposed to be fun!