Dia de Natação

Wednesday is one of Anderson's favorite days. Why? Because it is his "dia de natação."
That means it's his swimming day at school. Every Wednesday he gets to ditch class a couple of hours early to go with some of his classmates and take swimming lessons at the pool.

Here is his swimming group. They have a great time.

I'm sure some of you are saying big deal but you need to understand why this is a big deal for him. You see all of our kids, before Anderson, loved the pool, ocean, lakes, etc. All of our kids are fishes. They love to swim and stay in the water all day. We just assumed Anderson would be the same way.

We were wrong. Very wrong.

He actually had a fear of the water. He never really wanted to get wet above his knees when we would go to the pool.

We went on a family vacation about 3 months ago and we went to the beach. Anderson did not want to get in the ocean with the water above his knees. He panicked a couple of times. We all tried to get him to not be afraid of it but nothing worked.

Then one day we were at the beach and it got kind of chilly. The girls all went back to the hotel. Garrett, Anderson and I stayed at the beach and played for a little while. It then started to rain. We headed back to the hotel. Garrett had the idea of us going to the indoor pool before we headed back to the room.

We got to the pool and jumped in. What happened next was a miracle. We started talking to Anderson about just trying to get his head wet, and he took the full plunge. We kind of freaked out. He caught us totally off guard. We were so happy that I had to go upstairs to get Benay to come down and see it for herself. Here's what it looked like (it's a two minute video.....we realize it might just interest grandparents, and that's okay.......enjoy your fearless grandson):

Unbelievable how quickly he went from "Water Phobia Boy" to "Fish Man." Now we have a phobia.....keeping up with a 5 year old who now has no fear of the water.