I'm so happy to report that Nolan still loves swimming class! It's been fun for me to do the class with him and we've always had dad there as our trusted photographer!
Brianna came to watch the last class and he must have been showing off for her because he was holding onto the side all by himself!! Since day one of the class the instructor has asked us to do a thing called "walking the wall" to teach the kids to grab onto the side and move along the wall. I usually just held him up with my knee and kind of moved his hands for him because he was always too busy splashing on the side to grab on. Seriously, he never grabbed on so I just figured he was too little to get it. Well, on Tuesday the instructor came over to us and told me that I just needed to let him go. Then she took him from me and let go of him right next to the wall. And you know what? He grabbed right on!! It was crazy! At first I was tempted to reach my hand out to him, but the instructor stopped me. I guess mom has been holding him back this whole time ☺
It's kind of crazy to think that I already need to "let my baby go" and do things for himself, but I know without a doubt in my mind that that is what's best for him and it's the only way he'll grow and learn all the things he needs to in his life. What a great metaphor this was and something that I hope we'll always remember as he grows up.
Check him out!
Getting warm after class!
3 comments:
We just can't get enough of these awesome photos of Nolan swimming and hangin out with you two all over the place. He such a little cutie. One question, why do the videos cue up some thing totally not related to you three after the video has been viewed once?
So glad to see Nolan enjoying the water so much. I bet he really looks forward to Tuesday nights.
We feel like he could become a big time swimmer.
Thanks again for sharing such great photos, videos and content.
We are lucky you are so good at the blog posts.
Love,
Mom and Dad Bailey
I don't know about a great swimmer, but on things for sure, he's the CUTEST swimmer!! :) And your question about the videos - that just happens bc the videos are on YouTube. At first I used blogger to host the videos but then everyone would have to have an account to view them. I thought that would be annoying so I put them on YouTube as public videos. Thanks for your comment!
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