My Little Swimmer

My sweet girl has ALWAYS loved the water.  Up until this year, she still needed the assistance of floaties to swim.  This week, we started swim lessons.  After only 3 lessons, she is DONE with floaties!  I cannot believe my little 5 year old is a swimmer!

Her teacher Kate is amazing and instills lots of confidence in them.  On the first day of lessons she wanted them to all try swimming without floaties for the entire class. I  was a bit nervous, but Mackenzie was ecstatic.  She really wanted to ditch those old floaties!  On day 2, she had them go off the diving board without a floatie and swim to the side.  I was nervously holding my breath but Mackenzie jumped right off and swam to the side like she has done it a million times!  Her face was priceless when she climbed out of the water.  I think she suprised herself that she could do that! On day 3, she had them DIVE into the water and swim across the entire lenght of the diving bay.  I could not believe that she could swim that distance without the help of a floatie or adult.  Since that day, she is hard to get out of the water.  She even told me on the car ride home today that she might want to be on swim team next Summer, if she's old enough.  Melt my heart!  Congratulations sweet girl.  You are not even in Kindergarten yet and you continue to amaze us with new things each day!