Shh, I'm swimming

This morning I taught Daniel how to do 'shh'. It is pretty cute when he does it. He has made the sound for ages but I decided to show him how you put your finger to your lips and he copied me. Cutie!

We then went to his 2nd swimming lesson. Mum came to watch too which was nice. Daniel was a bit excited and wanted to keep watching Nana but he did do well. He had his proper instructor today - I think her name was Robina. She was very nice. We started again singing 'The Wheels on the Bus'. Then we started to do some paddling and kicking to get a duck. Daniel did pretty well with his kicking but needed me to help him paddle. They were impressed with his reaching though. We then did some kicking of a ball while on your back.

The problem was that he kept trying to sit up and pick the ball up in his hands - not quite as relaxed as last week. We poured some water over his head using a cup and the teacher was very impressed with his reflexes. She decided that he was ready to go under water so we did and he was fine with it which was awesome! He went under around 5 times. She was impressed that he blew bubbles and didn't get upset.
We then did some more paddling and kicking to get some little flying saucers and then put them back into the bucket. He again did good kicking but not so much paddling.

 We did some more humpty dumpty and jumping in from the side, then climbing out again. He is very good a knowing what to do to climb out - reaches out for the edge, pulls himself up onto his tummy and gets one leg up. 

This action is starting up - when he doesn't want to do an action, but is cute about it. Here he didn't want to clap

Paddling and kicking to the edge

Starting to get out

Here is a video Mum took of paddling and kicking to get a ball.

 

Robina commented that he is a water baby and is doing very well and being very confident in the water for just his 2nd week. She was also impressed with his straight back when doing paddling and kicking. I'm very glad that we have started swimming lessons! Daniel is doing great!

Also this morning, we left the pantry latch unlocked and Daniel decided to venture in and see what he could get his hands on. Cheeky boy was very proud of himself!

Mmm... muesli bars!