Friday, July 17, 2009

Swimming Lessons

So, Jack’s been taking daily drowning prevention classes; a birthday gift from Grandma and Grandpa. The gist is that they teach the child to float properly, should they fall into a pool or other body of water. Anyway, on Fridays, the parents are allowed to record the daily torture session swimming lesson, and the video below is what happened today. The poor kid doesn’t like it one bit, but it could save his life one day, so we take it pretty seriously.

A couple of spots to watch for are at the 2:50 mark, she torpedoes him straight down, and he makes a very nice recovery, and at the 3:50 mark, when he looks straight at me, and with his eyes, begs me to save him from the craziness…

After the lesson, we went over to the Waffle House, and he LOVED IT (who doesn’t?), until he barfed up everything he ate all over himself, me, and our table. Many thanks to the strangers who stopped eating to come over and help clean up the mess that the two of us made.

4 comments:

Kristen & Tom said...

Poor guy! But I am SOOOOOOO glad you are doing it! He really is handling it well all things considered!

Sherry said...

how hard was it to just watch this?? it was hard enough for me, but such an amazing process, how he is learning. good job, Jack.

Sherry said...

check out this momma sea lion's swimming lesson for her pup!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0kMOuMmQ44

Anonymous said...

Awwww...poor little man! That was so hard to watch..broke my heart! I can only imagine what you, mommy and daddy, were going through. OUCH!
But, the lessons are well worth it because, as you said, this could save his life one day. He was a champ about it though, thats for sure! GOOD JOB JACKY!!!!

Auntie Amy