Making Progress

You may remember Emily's swim lessons two years ago, which didn't turn out so well. Last year we started her in private lessons with my cousin Colleen, and after the initial few weeks filled with screaming tantrums, she's made some baby steps strokes, mostly just learning how to kick and stroke while still holding onto Colleen. Recently, though, Colleen asked if she could start pushing Emily more to break through her plateau, and I had to hold myself back from shouting, "YES! PLEASE! DO IT!" Well, today, they finally made a teensy breakthrough when Colleen let go of Emily (or, really, when Emily let her let go), all of course while Emily was perfectly safe holding onto the floating barbell by herself.

Soon we're going to start all over again with Kate. Let's just hope our little daredevil catches on sooner!