Brysen's first day of swimming lessons

Here are a few pictures from this morning!

We had a very exciting morning! Brysen had his very first swimming lesson... He has been so excited to go and was really trying to push me out the door this morning.

We arrived about 20 minutes early so Brysen went to play on the playground until the gates opened. Once we were allowed in, we were introduced to about 6 or 7 swim teachers. They then called out all the kids names and asked what their favorite color was. Brysen said Blue! After that they asked all the kids to get in a line and put their hands on the kid in front of them shoulder and they would pretend they were a choo choo train. Well Brysen decided at that point that he was not going to participate and wanted to go home! I knew at that point that we were in for an interesting lesson. The teachers asked all of the parents to go on the other side of the gates so that the kids wouldnt be looking to escape to their parents. Since Brysen decided he was not touching the boy in front of him, he got to be the leader of the last half of the train...

Once they had all the kids lined up on the edge of the pool they all let go and sat down. The teachers talked to the kids for a few minutes and then had them get into the pool. Well Brysen got in and got right back out. He then ran like a mad man all the way to the other side where the really big pool was. I was very tempted to go back in and talk to him but I knew my job was to stay on the outside and let them deal with him. It ended up taking 3 teachers to get him back in the water. I couldnt help but laugh. I could hear him screaming at them saying... NO LIKE IT!!! over and over again. About half way through the 35 minute lesson he decided that it was pretty fun after all and joined in. At the end he didn't want to get out and asked if he could do it again.

I was so shocked that he acted like that because he is already such a big swimmer at Dan Amma's house. We took him over there yesterday to swim and he jumped right in on his own before John even got in the pool with him. Now, he does have a life jacket on when swims at Dan Amma's and there are no life jackets in swimming lessons so maybe he felt a little scared. The pool that he is in is 1 ft. deep at one end and 2 ft. deep at the other so he can totally stand or even sit and be ok!

I really hope that tomorrow goes a lot smoother and he jumps right in and stays there... I am adding a couple of pictures from today...It was really hard to take pictures from the other side of the fence but I did my best!