Learning to swim

We have been swimming almost everyday for the last 2 weeks. Ethan takes his nap time, wakes up and eats lunch and then comes swim time. Usually nai-nai would let him play in the backyard and wet his feet by the poolside while waiting for mommy to come home from work. I usually get home around 4:10pm. Then it's swimming time with Ethan. We usually swim in the jacuzzi since the water in the big pool is still quite cold. Ethan never wants to swim with his ducky floater. We gave up trying to get him to use the floater. Then last sunday, we bought him the life vest jacket.

On the first day swimming with a life vest jacket, Ethan refused to wear it, but we managed to put the jacket on him with a bit of struggle. On the first day with the life vest jacket, i basically held him all the time and sometimes I waited in the middle of the jacuzzi with hands reaching out to him and he jumped to grab my hands.

Second day, Ethan asked Nai-Nai to put on the life vest jacket. Yeahhh...he knows swimming is fun with the vest. Again still in the jacuzzi, Ethan started to follow mommy from behind if mommy slided accross the jacuzzi back and forth. I told him to kick his feets and move his hands and he did so. I saw his improvement from day 1.

Third day, as the wheater was quite hot, we swam in the big pool. Ethan has improved so much and began to swim without mommy holding his hands. But of course, i still need to watch him very carefuly, he sometimes flipped to the side and over and drank the pool water accidently.

We hope the wheather will warm up and we can swim in the big pool. I wish potty train would be this easy but unfortunately not. Mommy needs to be patient with Ethan when it comes to potty train.