Swimming Lessons

Max had his first swimming lesson of the year this Saturday. For those of you who have been a part of swimming lessons in Florida, you won't recognize these swimming lessons. Since you don't have a swimming pool around every corner in Illinois, they are less about survival training and more about getting kids used to the water. The Florida girl in me is not sure how I feel about this, but Max thinks they're fun. Hopefully, by the time we leave the beach this year, Max will be a little Florida fishy.

Here are a few pictures from his first lesson of the year:

Getting ready to search for his sinking egg: 

Something he did a lot of: wandering off. 

Blowing bubbles: 

Look, Mom! I'm wandering off again and you can't do anything about it!

This is when he told his teacher, "The zebra in Madagascar says 'Are you biting my butt?!?!'"

And laughing at himself afterward.

His favorite part: the surf board. 

His least favorite part: trying to float.

Between this and the butt thing, he's clearly a class favorite.

My little waterbug!

A couple videos to enjoy

At school they do a video series called Jolly Phonics. It goes through all the letters and some of the letter pairings (ch, sh, etc) and puts each letter sound with a little song. They are super cute and Max loves them. Plus he already knows what sound every letter of the alphabet makes! So there's two videos of that and the third video is the theme song from the show Fresh Beat Band. One of Max's favorites!