Diving Lessons

Chansey and Eathan are taking diving lessons this summer and they are loving it! They are both fearless, and love the water, so this is a fun new skill for them to learn. It seems like only yesterday that we had to bribe Eathan with $5 to get him to go off the diving board by himself... and now look at him...

If you look between the diving boards in this picture, you can see Eathan trying to perfect his back dive. He is jumping off of the side of the pool instead of the board because the board was too high at first. The board is so far from the water, that he couldn't control his momentum when he first tried it off of the diving board. So he actually did an over-rotated flip and landed on his back. I guess you would call that a flip and a quarter?!

Chansey is doing a pencil dive in this picture. They were taught how to dismount properly off of the diving board, so she got really high off of this jump. She is actually on her way down... I shot the picture a fraction of a second too late!

Bella is also in swimming lessons, but I have to be with her in the water, so I didn't manage to get a picture. She is finally starting to grasp the concept of actually moving water and swimming instead of just sinking when the water gets deep. She brings a whole new meaning to the word "fearless". While all of the other children cry for most of the lesson because they are scared of the water, Bella is doing head-first dives into the pool. And then she turns around and grabs onto the side... I told you she was "loco"!