Our Little Mermaid!

When I was a kid I loved nothing more than being in a swimming pool whether it was at the local baths or on holiday and I want 'L' to enjoy it as much as I did and still do. So when I heard about the local pool doing 10 week courses for babies I jumped at the chance to put her name down. I had no idea what the lessons consisted of I just knew that I wanted her to be comfortable in water and not afraid of it as I know many children can be.
So 10 weeks ago, kitted out in her first swimsuit, we went along to our first class. This is were the nerves set in. We were told to sit the babies on the side of the pool, sing Humpty Dumpty to them and then, wait for it, dunk them under the water! 'Are you mad?' was my initial reaction, you cant dunk a baby, did the authorities know about this? But as it turns out babies are the most natural of underwater swimmers and 'L' didnt even flinch, in fact by the look on her face she quite enjoyed it! The classes arent just about putting the babies underwater, there are nursery rhymes, swimming on floats, playing with toys and teaching them to grip onto the side all of which she loved!
'L'is now a very confident little water baby, sometimes overly so as she would create the biggest splashes drenching the other more timid babies!
The 10 weeks are over now and she has received her first (of many I hope), 1st Wave certificate for swimming underwater and underwater through a hoop! What is also fab is that they get a picture taken of themselves swimming underwater which now has pride of place in our living room!

Well done 'L', our beautiful little mermaid! xxxx

Melissa x