Water Babies Week 1

Charlie and Theo are now 'Ducklings'! That's the name given to the first term of their swimming class - they had their first lesson yesterday (Sunday).

The class only consisted of about 8 babies (plus 8 adults as well!) and it was great fun.

Charlie was a bit more confident and calm in the water than Theo was (no surprises there!) and we did things such as:

1. getting them used to feeling water running down their face
2. encouraging them to kick along in the water from one side of the pool to the other
3. doing backstroke
   
4. bobbing up and down to nursery rhymes!

All fairly tame things to start with but the idea is that after the 10 weeks course, they should be comfortable with being underwater for a few strokes. Gulp!

One thing that was fairly woeful though was our knowledge of the words to the nursery rhymes we did! We're definitely going to need to brush up in advance of the next lesson.

Anyway, here's a pic of the boys on the drive home. Poor little things...!