Water baby

Evelyn had her third swim class this week, and with each class she is having more and more fun in the water.

• Class 1: She stuck close to Mama and kept her thumb in her mouth half the time.
• Class 2: Less thumb sucking, less clinging.
• Class 3: She was clapping and yelling at the end of each song.
• (Class 100: Doing butterfly laps up and down the pool?)
  

Here are some pictures from the first class (can you spot Rhea and Paula?).


The class mostly consists of lots of singing with coordinated lifting, dunking, jumping, twisting, rolling, wiggling, jiggling, and even running. Sadly, this is my biggest cardio workout of the week. Even more sadly, it's exhausting!

Here's a video of us running around doing "motor boat" in the pool (as in "Motor boat, motor boat, go so slow. Motor boat, motor boat, go so fast. Motor boat, motor boat, STEP ON THE GAS!!). You can see Charlotte/Nicolas, Paula/Rhea, me/Evelyn, and Mary/Annie zipping by, then some random other people, then the big guy at the end, one of the instructors.



At one point during each class, Big Guy (sorry, I forget his name!) tries to take each little one on a "zoom zoom" with him around the pool. I think Rhea, Annie, and Evelyn are all a bit scared of him. This week, he approached Annie and the look of terror on her face said it all. Wisely, he moved on... to Evelyn. He asked her if she wanted to zoom zoom, and she just calmly but emphatically shook her head. Smart girl, I think.