The Next Ian Thorpe?

About 3 weeks ago Evan decided that it was time to learn to swim. Now we had done lessons in the past, but only ever lasted 3 weeks before he lost interest or we did. So all up he has had about 6 lessons between the ages of 2 and 3 years and really made no progress at all. I think it's one of those things you have to stick at.

Since then we have had a few holidays where there have been some great pools and Evan has used a floatation ring to swim around as he wouldn't even try floaties or a bubble.

The on the last couple of days of our Christmas holiday he decided that he wanted to "swim" like a big boy as he was now a "SENIOR" at daycare and being 4.5 yo he felt it was time. So he pretty much just went for it.

He can now "swim" across the pool, jump in the deep end and swim back, dive down to the bottom of the pool and retreive things (even in the deep end), dog paddle, his version of freestyle and also underwater swimming. George and I are just amazed and really have no idea where this has come from.

We have been taking him swimming ever other day to the local pool and he just continues to improve.

Here is a video I took on the weekend. Sorry for the quality, it was taken on my Blackberry, will get some better video soon.

Senior Boy

After a 2 week break it was back to the grind this week. I started back at work yesterday and Evan had his first day at daycare today. He has now moved up to the Senior Preschool. He was very excited to be a "senior" this year and proud to be one of the "big" boys. I wish I had taken a picture of him this morning. He had his new backpack, a trendy new haircut and his new Elmo baseball cap.

George is still on holidays, so he has picked Evan up early today and they are headed for the pool as it's so incredibly hot in Sydney today. Someone said it was over 40degrees out west. Aghhhh. So glad to be in an airconditioned office.

One of my new years resolutions is to blog weekly, so this is week 1. Let's see how I go.

Cheers
Angela

Christmas Holidays