chop, chop, timber!

back in the beginning of summer we enrolled lucas and emma in swim lessons at our community pool. emma's class was a parents and tots class (the parent goes into the pool with the tot), but lucas' was not so he had to go into the pool with his class by himself. he would NOT do it. it took a lot of encouraging, coaxing, coercing, and a tiny bit of threatening just to get him to go into the pool. once he was in, he wouldn't participate with the rest of his class. interestingly, though, as soon as his class was over and emma's started, he would BEG to go into the pool. emma and lucas had the same teacher, miss katie, and she didn't have a problem with lucas doing that. well, lucas was a totally different child during emma's class time. we couldn't understand it except that he must have wanted one of us to be in the pool with him. so, instead of enrolling him into a second session, allan decided to teach lucas on his own. lucas has totally thrived with this new plan and is now jumping into the pool on his own! we are so excited to see him love the water and enjoy swimming!