swimming lessons

We signed up for swimming lessons on Tuesday nights. But our first experience was pretty disappointing for all of us. Dennis was signed up to be with a class that is at his swimming ability however, they were all kids that had been in swimming lessons for years together. They were comfortable with the system, the pool, each other and the teachers. Dennis was comfortable with swimming but that is about it. Everything else scared him a bit. They made him put on a floating backpack, the teacher wasn't very nice, the pool was super loud and unfamiliar, and he didn't know anyone. He got in the water once in the 45 minutes and that was because the teacher pulled him out into the middle of the pool by force (never works with D).

We switched classes to a group that is new to the program, Ryan took D swimming the day before just to have fun in the new pool. We got there and he had a different teacher that was not intimidating. Dennis' best friend from school, Ella, was in the neighboring class, and a friend from church was in his class. Things were already tons better. With a little encouragement and a bribe of sprinkle donuts, he really enjoyed his swim lessons.

We got to the donut place just in time to get the last donuts so, she gave us a couple extra. Dennis got his sprinkle donut and one with "butter and cheese" (coconut on white frosting).