It's Finally Hailey's Turn...

to swim! With Peyton testing out of her last swim class just last week, Hailey now enters the pool for her first full fledged swim lesson. She's been watching Peyton attend swim lessons for years so she knows sort of what's expected at swim class so I think that helped ease any swim anxiety. Although she was worried about "getting her eyes wet" but then I reminded her that she'd be wearing goggles and all was well again.

So on Friday, she waited (less than patiently) asking every minute if it was her turn yet to wait by the door for her swim class to begin. Then she told me she knew where Lane 1 was so I didn't even have to go in with her! Is she for real? Of course I'm going in with my 4 year old on her first day to meet her teacher. I told her it's probably best just this first time and she can go in by herself every lesson thereafter. She relented and walked past a girl in her class screaming and clinging to her mom's leg. She said hello to the teacher and calmly sat down on the ledge of the pool to begin her swim lessons.

She did great, waiting her turn and following her teacher’s directions. Every so often she would look over at us and I would flash her the thumbs up to let her know how awesome she was doing. In fact, Austen and Peyton were so excited to watch her too that they put down their own iPads to observe her independence.

It was different for them being the ones watching instead of the ones doing (as Hailey's soccer and gymnastics classes are when they're in school). But, you could see how proud they were of her and even told her so after class ended.

So swim was a success for sure - only 3 more years to go before she hopefully passes out of all the levels!