Like a Dumbell

Eli's feet will not stay out of the water! I signed Eli up for some indoor swim lessons after the 1st of the year in the hopes that he would not lose all of his swimming-without-floatation-device skills. We were just starting to get somewhere last summer and then the pool closed. Well Eli loves the class. He loves the pool. He loves the instructor. He loves the water. And he loves to do whatever he is asked at the lesson. What he does not like to do is keep his feet behind him while swimming. They drift towards the bottom of the pool (as if he were treading water) almost 100% of the time. The teacher jokes that we need to take him out of swimming and enroll him in a pre-school water polo team because his 'water-treading' is spot on for that.

I think he just needs little floaties on his ankles...just to get him started :) Here is a quick, less-than-good-quality video of some of his lesson yesterday.

2010 01 Eli Swims from Nicole Eliason on Vimeo.