olympic hopeful
Posted by kyden on Sunday Jun 13, 2010 Under Uncategorized
until now, i have only been swimming for fun. but today, i started my professional training. i have 2 full years before the summer olympics in london. that’s plenty of time, right?
i will be taking swim lessons all summer at the almaden valley althletic club (AVAC). it’s almost 30 minutes away from our house, but it’s well worth the drive. they have an indoor pool specially designed and configured for swimming lessons, and it has a retractable glass roof. it’s nice because we can enjoy the natural sunlight, or move a few feet to find shade when the sun gets too hot or too bright.
i know there is an ongoing debate about swimming lessons for babies. those who argue against it say that they give children and parents a false sense that the babies are safe in or near water. but we know that’s not the case. mommy and daddy wouldn’t leave me unsupervised near water. duh. those who support swim lessons for babies (like we do!) just think it’s a good idea for them to be comfortable in the water. plus, it’s a fun way to cool off in this heat wave!
mommy was pretty confident that she could help me be comfortable in the pool on her own (without the lessons). however, she was not so confident that she would be disciplined enough to actually take me to the pool every week. so, off to AVAC we went! in addition to the beautiful (and very clean) facility, AVAC also has a lot of toys and teaching tools that we wouldn’t otherwise have access to. check out the flat floating hippo that i am sitting on. he helped me learn how to jump into the water learning forward (instead of jumping straight in and konking my head on the wall behind me). we also practiced crawling out of the pool safely, floating on our backs, and holding our breath underwater. that sounds like a lot for a little kid to do in one lesson, but i had so much fun and can’t wait for next week 
June 15th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Wow! That looks like so much fun. I asked my mommy if I could play in the water and take swim lessons, but she said that I was still to young and didn’t have enough head control.
When I’m old enough, I’ll tell her all about AVAC. I hope they’re still offering swim lessons when I’m old enough.
June 15th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
logan, with all the tummy time workouts you’ve been doing, i’m sure you’ll have great head control in no time. you better learn to swim soon so we can play together at the beaches in hawaii later this year!
June 15th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
I MISS YOU KY!!!!! I bet you are so adorable swimming around. Maybe we can go to the pool when I am home!
June 19th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
auntie barbara, i miss you too! can’t wait to see you in a week and a half. we can go swimming, go to lunch, and do all kinds of fun things
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:09 pm
hey, we had this debate! and we don’t have a baby to debate about yet. I’m still sort of against having a pool built in just yet.
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:49 pm
auntie cindy, learning to swim and having a pool are two entirely different things. daddy never wanted a house with a pool, but not because he was worried for my safety. he just didn’t want to clean it all the time, and he didn’t want a hunky pool boy at the house while mommy is working from home
June 28th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
I did NOT think about the hunky pool boy! Hmm. I’ll have to give that pool idea another think.
Altho…your uncle Tim said he’s going to retire between 5-7 yrs and he’s gonna be a stay-at-home-dad, so maybe he’ll get better use out of the poolboy than I would.