Last summer, we had Katherine take swimming lessons at our community pool. One of the instructors decided that, as part of the jump-off-the-side-and-into-my-arms that it would be helpful to “push the envelope” and, though saying she wouldn’t, let Katherine’s head go below water after the jump.<\/p>\n
It’s taken a year to essentially get Katherine over her jitteriness from that incident. Even early in this summer and with Margie or I there, she was very <\/em>hinky about jumping in, or doing anything that would get her head wet. <\/p>\n With time and encouragement, that’s changed, and as of the trip to Jim & Ginger’s, she’s turned the corner and turned into a little otter. She jumps in on the shallow end with gay abandon. In the deeper end, she’ll jump in holding a noodle, or jump to a noodle or either of us. She dunks herself under the water so much now that she doesn’t even proudly announce it as a trick. She is <\/em>learning to dog paddle on her own, swim underwater for a few moments, kick off the side, and float.<\/p>\n During the trip, she spent more time in the pool than anyone else, including Margie and myself combined. Sunday she went in around 9 or so, and was in for most of the time until we had to pack up to go, around 2 or 3. <\/p>\n Good thing we have her enrolled in swimming classes (at the rec center) starting next Saturday. My only worry now is that she’s too advanced for the one we have her in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last summer, we had Katherine take swimming lessons at our community pool. 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