Grayson's First Swim Lesson

Today was Grayson's first day of swim lessons.

I wanted to sign him up for a couple of reasons:

1. He LOVES water. He loves to splash in water tables, he can't get enough tubby time, he loves playing in baby pools, and when we were in TX last summer he loved the pool at the lake. So I thought this would be something he would have so much fun doing and give us something to do on the weekends :)

2. One of the top causes of death for children with Autism and children with Special Needs is drowning..more specially, wandering...and wandering leading them to water and water leading to drowning.

I know that is not the best topic to hit on but it is a serious one.

So I thought it would be a good idea to get him started in swim lessons and make it an on going thing so we can make sure he is safe in and around water (granted he will never leave my sight near water but still..).

Anyway,

It was a great success! Zak got to be there as well and we all had a blast!

It was a parent/child class and there were quite a few kiddos and their parents in the class as well, which at first made me a little nervous ... well nervous isn't the best word... not really sure what the best word is, so let's just go with nervous.... I was nervous only because Grayson LOVES other kids, so I thought he might be completely distracted and then get frustrated that he couldn't actually play with them.

I was wrong. He did amazing! He loved that there were other kids around but he just loved being in the pool all together!


No pictures to show, sorry :-\ but we were all in the water so I couldn't capture any of the photos.