The Bipolar Swimming Lessons

The girls went to the Jan Thomas Swim School in August and actually learned how to swim underwater and float on their backs. They had private lessons. Kiara had Nick for a teacher and Kate had Megan.

It was a strange experience. They loved it and hated it all at the same time. It gave them a lot of confidence to know they could swim underwater, but it scared them to death.
Kiara saw me looking at these photos today and she immediately burst into tears that she doesn't WANT to go to swimming lessons. One day Kiara was crying inconsolably before her lesson. I said, "Kiara, what's wrong?" And she said, "I'm just so excited!" It might be a little bit how I felt the day before I got married---excited, but scared, happy, but sad. The swim school focused a lot on teaching them confidence. At the end of the classes they gave them little medals and had them say, "I am a champion!"