#1 Swimming lessons at the YMCA
Every Tuesday and Thrusday morning we bundle up and head to the YMCA for swimming lessons. We are already Y members so lesson are $30 a month, which breaks down to $3.75 a lesson. If you're not a member its $70, which is $8.75 a lesson.
Swimming is an extremely important skill and one that I am sentimentally attached. I grew up with swimming lessons every summer. It is a wonderful memory of spending the summer at my aunt's house and taking lessons at the city pool. We loved our aunt and loved spending time with her and it was even better that we got to swim all the time. She even threw her annual swim party at the pool. She would rent the pool and invite everyone she knew to go swimming with her. Such a good time! Then as I got older we would swim as a family whenever we got a chance. The year we spent in San Diego was a glorious one for swimming. There was an outdoor pool in our apartment complex and we would swim several times a week, sometimes everyday. That year we even went swimming on Christmas Day. Everyone thought we were crazy for going swimming on Christmas (it's winter you know) but we were basking in the sunny 60 degree day and enjoyed ourselves immensely. Swim class in high school, college PE courses, even learning to SCUBA dive all pull from those early swim lessons.
Now that Travis is old enough for lessons he gets to go. He splashes and dives and shouts "Look! I'm a fish." He has so much fun swimming that I'm glad we are making the effort to get there. I take Kenzie swimming once a week, while Travis is in lessons. She loves the water so much too. She tries climbing out of the pool so she can jump back in. The days she isn't swimming are hard becuase all she tries to do is climb into the pool! I am so excited that my kids like to swim and hope its something we can do for a long time to come.
