splish, splash!!!

on monday evening both of the boys started swimming lessons! gabe had previously taken swimming lessons but this was grady's first real swimming lesson experience! they have swimming lessons twice a week for the next five weeks...and probably 5 more weeks after that...the ymca is having back to back lessons, and this is a really quiet time for us--so we are going to take full advantage of this--baseball starts in 3 months!!! grady was super excited about swimming lessons....he has been talking non-stop about going since we signed him up 3 weeks ago, so i was hoping he would keep his excitedness all the way into the water! well, no fear-he absolutely loves the water and the learning! he is totally fearless, he does whatever his instructor asks him to do, he is learning to float, safely jump into the water, kick and paddle, and most importantly to have fun in the water! not only does he have an awesome teacher, but one of his little buddies from soccer is in his class---they were so pumped when they saw each other! gabe also has a friend from school in his class...which is usually not great when it comes to gabe---unfortunately he acquired his love of gab from mom, but so far he and conner have been paying attention, so i guess we will see how this goes! gabe already knew how to swim, but we were wanting him to get a little more confident and learn some actual strokes..so we signed him up as well! he is doing great...the only problem is the poor boy can not float on his back...as they say "fat floats" and as any of you that know gabe...that child has absolutely no fat, so he just sinks! i'm not sure we have any future michael phelps....but we're trying!