Winter Swimming!

I don't want to lose the progress we made in the pool this past summer over the winter, so Brian and I took Payton to Marion Diehl indoor pool on Saturday. Payton didn't skip a beat. I can tell she's a little more apprehensive about the water....perhaps learning that breathing it in isn't such a great idea, but that's a good thing! She eventually was relaxed and all smiles. I am working on getting her very relaxed on her back, in order to teach her the survival float...i.e.-if she was to fall in the water and no one was around, it teaches her to surface and roll over onto her back until help arrives. And yes, you generally start teaching this technique around 6 months old! Well, every time I placed her on her back, she'd grab her feet. This isn't exactly the ideal way to float....as a matter of fact, it has quite the opposite effect. Anyway, she did a great job, didn't mind going under and me letting go of her, but we still have a long way to go! She loved that she could touch the bottom on the ramp into the big pool, and she loved she could sit and splash by herself in the baby pool. We purchased a pass, and plan on taking her many more times over the winter :)