our little swimmer

We've got ourselves a fish and his name is Nate.

{this video was of him at the beginning . . . he got a lot better as Wes was helping him!}

Ever since last summer he's been a great little swimmer with his lifejacket on. He gets himself all around the pool, he goes down the slide, jumps in, etc. He's never had a fear of going under, etc.

This summer, every time we swim we take his life jacket off at the end and have him swim around and kick just to get the feel of life in the water without a jacket. By no means did we expect him to start swimming. He got a little better every week - a little more daring - but he still sank as soon as you let go.

Wes started really working with him last week and while he was out of town this week my dad came over one night to take Nate swimming and I hear a call from the pool for me to come watch. Nate was swimming! He made it a 1/3 of the way down the pool swimming by himself! He even jumped in the pool, swam to the top of the water, and made his way to the side.

Lets just say I was one proud mama. And he's one proud little boy.

And every time we swim he gets a little better. I've been a slacker with swim lessons this summer so now I'm really glad a swim teacher is coming to our house next week to work with him!