Waldron Family Blog: Swimming Lessons

Ever since Paisley turned 6 months old, Tim and I had been really excited to start her in swimming lessons. We decided to wait until Spring for better weather, who wants to take a baby to swimming lessons in the cold and rain. So we were so excited to finally start swimming with her this month!! Paisley is in a swimming class with 9 other infants between the ages of 6 months and 3 years old, one of them is her cousin Alex. From the first moment that Paisley got in the pool at her first lesson, she has LOVED the water! She gets a huge smile on her face and kicks her legs, it is really cute. Her favorite part of lessons is when she gets to sit on the side of the pool and fall into the pool when the instructor sings "Humpty Dumpty had a great fall". She usually gets so excited and tries to fall into the pool before that line of the song :-) Tim and I both love the water and figured that she would too so it is so cute for us to see her loving the water and floating on her back and kicking her legs. Even though she is only 10.5 months, she is very cooperative in the water and does most everything that the instructor asks the kids to do. Paisley is usually very shy around people that she doesn't know very well, but not in the water, Paisley went to the instructor and swam around with her without looking for me or crying, I was so proud of her :-) It also helps that her cousin Alex is in the class, Paisley loves familar faces and always gives Alex and Aunt Ashlee a big smile and laugh when she sees them across the pool. Tim and I are trading off getting in the water with her. Here are some pictures of her in the water with Daddy yesterday.
Reaching for the toy