Winter Fish

The winter months are so blaaaah, when it comes to doing anything active...so we decided to have Josh and Grace take winter swim lessons from the Y during the month of January.  Two days a week the kids had lessons at the same time, at opposite ends of the pool--one day I took them, and another day G'ma Colleen and Jeff took them.  It was dreamy...

...at least for our fish!  :)  When I went, Micah spent an hour in the stroller going through his gourmet snack trap while I kept busy picking up what he dropped and seeing how long I could keep him happy in the stroller.  And yes, I'm aware that the Y has childcare, but seeing as Micah scream-cries for ten solid minutes before the sweet childcare workers come to get me, I found that we were all better off avoiding that stress.  :)  But we did try several times... 

January went so well--both kids mastered everything in their classes and moved up to the next classes!--that we decided to sign up for February lessons, too.  February got trickier, though, with lessons at different times--4:40 and 5:20--and a one year-old that was getting tired of the "watch brother and sister swim" routine.  Oh, and both lessons were on my days off now, so I got to take them both times.  I quickly decided that we may have peaked in January...

But in February both kids had the same teacher, Evan, and continued to grow as fish.  Gracie's class started meeting in the lap pool, which made her grow up way too fast in my eyes, and Joshy's class met in the deep end of the pool.  They loved their lessons, and after our first week off in March, they were asking why we hadn't been to the Y to swim "in ages!"

Such great exercise!  Tired fish are good fish, right?  It was good two month run.

(And truth be told, I"m blogging this in April and we haven't been since then!

Eek!  I say we make a lovely Y "donation" each month! )