Evan the fish

Evan & Ms. Alicia


Swimming to Daddy


Floating for Daddy


Swimming in his PJs

For the last few weeks, Evan has been taking swim lessons. They have worked magic on him, or I should say Alicia worked her magic on Evan. Evan was very confident in the water before hand, perhaps too confident. I wanted him to be able to swim when he was done, not just float, or want to play with him. He loves the water, I didn't need to pay for him to love it some more :). Alicia's techniques are hard to watch sometimes, but are very effective. She taught Evan how to float, to swim and how to survive if he were to fall into the water and he couldn't get to the side. For his last day, he had to wear long sleved and long pant pajamas (miracle I even had some since it's been 95 here for months) along with his crocks. She flipped him into the water so that he would lose his orientation and he turned right onto his back and floated. She then took his shirt off of him and put it over his face, he was able to take it right off and float. I feel very confident in Evan's ability to swim and survive now (don't worry, not overly confident, I'm not letting him go by himself anytime soon). But I feel so great that we did these lessons and am so proud of Evan for doing such a great job and being such a quick learner!

Recently he has also learned on his own to swim with his arms like a real swimmer (it's adorable) and can tread water forever. He's ready for the swim team!! Watch out PVCC records :).