Here, Fishy Fishy!

After a full week of pool visits (at least once per day) and several hundreds of jumps off of the diving board, I finally got a few pictures and some video. Eli absolutely adores the water these days. I am blown away by what he's picked up after just two weeks of watching 'big kids' swim and jump. While we took lessons, he never really got the concept of kicking and moving his arms to swim. Now he starts kicking as soon as he hits the water. The one thing Eli does remember from his swim classes is moving along the wall with his hands. He can do this in the deep end with no problem. He jumps off the diving board, kicks over to Lehr, climbs on his back to swim to the edge and pulls himself over to the ladder. When they are in shallower water, Eli 'swims' on his own to the side. Amazing! The one problem with Eli watching the older kids is he gets a false sense of ability. He often thinks he too can just throw himself into deep water and swim on his own. Luckily, most of the time he is wearing his turtle back (floatie seen in picture).