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lacey's swimming teacher! she is just awesome! i feel truly blessed that we have found such a caring and wonderful woman to teach lacey how to swim not to mention she comes over to our pool. we love rhonda, plain and simple and we'll probably be using her again later in the summer for lela. if it wasn't for my neighbor jenn who told us about rhonda i honestly don't think i would found such a fabulous teacher to teach swimming lessons. last week lacey didn't even want to put her head in the water now just look at her...(i've tried turning the video but for some reason it doesn't want to flip? oh, well you get the idea.)

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swimming lessons

this summer i have vowed that the girls will take swimming lessons, well at least one of them anyways. lacey started this morning with a few other kids in the neighborhood. our teacher, ms. rhonda is wonderful!!! lacey seems to really like her and not to mention she is getting to swim with her buddies - ben, spencer and valerie. what is so cool is they are basically the same age, which works out great! it was a bit chilly this morning so i was pleased that i didn't have to get in. poor lace was shaking and her lips were turning blue because she got so cold. i hope the weather warms up this week, so i can get in the water and work with her on what she has learned. i'm just hoping that by lacey learning to swim it will spur lela on. i honestly hate the fact that lela is so scared of the water. during the whole class this morning i had to keep reassuring lela that ms. rhonda wasn't going to let anything happen to her sister. every few minutes lela would say, "i don't think that is good idea." oh lela, please! does she look like she is scared and gonna drowned?

swimming

i finally took the girls to the pool the other day after lacey ran in the house and returned in her bathing suit only to play in the hose while i was working in the yard. i decided to take that as a sign that i had better take the girls to the pool before things got too muddy. i was a little apprehensive because a week or so ago my neighbor's kids got ecoli from what appeared to be the neighborhood pool. her poor kids were extremely ill, running fevers of at least 103 and throwing up. i talked to her yesterday and everyone seems to be on the mends but that was after many a trip to the doctors and urgent care. so, going to the pool hasn't' been much of a priority.



well, as of this morning we have been two times and so far so good. as cami told me last night the pool is probably the cleanest it has ever been. i have to agree with her. the first day at the pool lela was a little nervous about taking her floaty off, but after a while she decided to throw it to the side and try sticking head underwater. last summer she took swimming lessons but by the end of the summer she was scared to death of getting in the water especially the deep end. you know what's a mom to do? so i finally feel as if we are making progress. lacey is even making progress in the fact she is starting to actually put her head in the water as well.