Swimming & Gymnastics

Alexa has been swimming at the Y since we moved to California. She has had 1-2 other girls in her class the entire time. Both of the other girls are 6 years old. Alexa just loves them and calls them her friends. They are both sweet girls and encourage Alexa while she swims. Starting in April, Alexa has the class to herself. Her new teacher Hillary is really great with her. I can tell Alexa misses her friends but I am sure she will get more out of the class now that she has one on one attention. She is slowly over coming her fear of deep water (more than 6 feet). She love to dive for rings and to jump in (cannon ball style and pencils are her favorite). She usually swims 10-15 feet unassisted. She is still struggling to get breathes and keep going. Whenever she goes for a breath she goes vertical and struggles to regain compose. The other area we need to work on is back floating. She isn't a fan of practicing so we are making slow progress there. Overall I think she is doing great. It's going to a fun summer for her.

Addison started parent child swim lessons last month. I did two of the classes and Justin did two of them. Her first class was OK. She didn't want to do much but did enjoy playing with some toys. The second class she was sooo unhappy. I think more than anything she was tired and didn't want to be in the water. During her third class she started really participating. She was kicking, digging her arms & blowing bubbles. Her last class in March was her best one. We discovered she LOVES the bar bells. Once she held onto those she was good to go. She was floating and swimming like a pro. In April we switched her swim lessons to during the week. So now she will do all her classes with me. This works out better since we keep pretty busy on Saturdays. Addison's first class was great. She was excited to get in and quickly caught on to her floating, kicking, digging arms and bubbles. I think her favorite thing to do is to climb out of the pool and jump in. She is a little fishy! At home she swims around in a puddle jumper on her own.

The other sport Alexa has been participating in is gymnastics. She really enjoyed it in Arizona and wanted to start again in California. We found a local gym and she has been going since January. Her class has 4 girls in it. Two are 4 and two are 6. Alexa quickly made friends with Julia, the other four year old. They are buddies in the gym. Over the last few months Alexa has been building some arm muscles. She can know do the monkey bars all the way across. We are still working hard on her bridge but I know she will get it. During this last week Alexa went to gymnastics camp for a few days. She LOVED it. Looks like we found out what Alexa is going to do this summer.