Showing posts with label swimming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swimming. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Get 'Em Started While They're Young

My brother borrowed my camera this morning to take pictures of Isobel swimming.



At age three she is already doing a rudimentary dog paddle that looks, as Jack puts it, "more like a baby elephant swimming than a dog paddle."



Still, when I taught swimming lessons, I had some nine-year-olds who hadn't mastered even a baby elephant paddle after three years of instruction, so I think she's doing great.


Although she seems to have inherited the same 'floating' gene that I possess that makes it almost impossible to stay underwater for very long without weights.