The Fitzgeralds: The Next Michael Phelps?!

Kellen started swim lessons 5 weeks ago at Schute Park Aquatic Center in Hillsboro. It is one of the classes where you have to go into the pool with your child and an instructor guides you through various songs and skills to work with your child. I was apprehensive for these classes to begin for a couple of reasons...one, Kellen had not been in a swimming pool since he was a young baby, and two, I'd have to put on a bathing suit and wear it out in public!! After many minutes of sucking in my stomach, watching Kellen splashing around, and kicking his feet in the water like he'd been doing it for years, all my fears and worries washed away. I figured, I really don't look THAT bad in a suit and Kellen is having the time of his life so who really cares! No one was looking at me anyways....they were all doting on the adorable babies splashing and squealing in the water (hopefully, anyways). So 5 weeks later our swim lessons come to an end. Kellen has learned to kick his feet towards objects in the water, hold his breath while being dunked under water (most of the time), and "swim" to me after being pushed under water by the instructor. On our last day of lessons we all went down this enormous water slide. I have to admit, I was a bit nervous because when you reach the bottom, people tend to be dunked under water. If I were going down alone I wouldn't mind at all, but I had my pride and joy sitting on my lap! The water slide went A LOT faster than I expected, but I managed to keep Kellen's head above water at the end. He loved that slide so much saying "Again, Again!", that we did it 3 times in a row!! He has come so far since that first day clinging for dear life to me as we made our way into the water. We'll definitely have to continue these lessons if he's going to be a contender in the Olympics in the future! ;-) Here are a few pictures and a of the class...

Singing songs in the pool