We just got back from swimming. We’ve changed from our Saturday afternoon slot to a Tuesday evening slot, and it’s totally changed how the kids engage. I feel like we’ve finally found their swimming sweet spot.<\/p>\n
Our Saturday teacher was a woman named Simone who is a fantastic swimming teacher. Amelia bloomed under her, and grew by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately, Luka just couldn’t get into it. Worse… we were always late, and they were always waking up early from their naps to go.<\/p>\n
It was just way too hard to make it all happen, and so even though leaving Simone was a hard choice, we decided to try out a new night.<\/p>\n
I think Jenny is going to be a good teacher as well, but, more than anything else, I think we’re finally not stressing out their sleep cycle, it’s much easier to get there (and so we get the full lesson), and the class size is slightly smaller. It’s meant that Luka is finally putting his head under water, and Amelia just keeps getting better and better.<\/p>\n
It also gives us our Saturday afternoon’s back, and we don’t feel like we lose an entire day of the weekend to having<\/strong> to do kid’s activity.<\/p>\n I just don’t get why the pool would have their 1 – 2 year old classes at THE<\/strong> primo nap time for that age group. It just doesn’t make sense :-\/<\/p>\n We’re really sad we’ve lost Simone, but we’re really excited about the kids being into swimming. We’ve found their swimming sweet spot \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We just got back from swimming. We’ve changed from our Saturday afternoon slot to a Tuesday evening slot, and it’s totally changed how the kids engage. I feel like we’ve finally found their swimming sweet spot. Our Saturday teacher was a woman named Simone who is a fantastic swimming teacher. Amelia bloomed under her, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[64,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-fq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1211,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/06\/01\/happy-birthday-amelia\/","url_meta":{"origin":956,"position":0},"title":"Happy birthday Amelia!","date":"June 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Darling Amelia. You turned three years old today. What a year we shared together. You started school last August, and you're getting ready to \"graduate\". 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