Big Fish

This was Rachel's second year of swimming lessons this year. Her teacher during the week of swimming lessons in June was Miss Katie.

Here she is practicing floating and her kicks.

Her group also practiced jumping in the pool

and then swimming to Miss Katie.

Rachel's big milestone at swimming lessons this year is that she has learned to swim underwater.

She actually swims faster underwater than above water now!

More underwater swimming and floating on her own.

There is a big difference in these two pictures of Rachel going off the diving board. YES, this summer she started jumping off the diving board to Miss Katie without a life jacket and then swimming to the edge of the pool from the middle on her own! Yay, Rachel!

Because of the weather in June, her last lesson was with Miss Mackenzie in August too. This was neat because Miss Mackenzie was her first teacher during her first swimming lessons last year!

Here she is swimming underwater to Miss Mackenzie. She also is learning to dive for the diving sticks in the pool too.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Rachel at swimming lessons. Look at the two numbers on the wall. She is in the deep end and she had just swam across the deep end by herself with Miss Mackenzie beside her! She was excited about being able to do this!

Rachel, we are proud of you! You have learned so much in the past two years of swimming lessons (we are thankful for all your good teachers too). Keep swimming, "Big Fish!"