Anson has just wrapped up an aquatic therapy sessionat the YMCA provided by St Lukes/Idaho Elks Rehab, the same place he does his occupational and speech therapy. His teachers name was Krystal, and Anson had a ball with her. It is helpful that he loves the water- it's extremely theraputic for him. We were excited for him to get to participate in this session for a couple different reasons; first of all-he loves the water and has absolutely no fear of the water. Good and bad. We also wanted to work on getting him used to wearing goggles, laying on his back and just following his teacher's directions. Luckily for us he improved immensley in all areas-yea! Krystal said she has already put his name on the waiting list because she loved working with him and thinks he has a lot of potential in the water. It will probably not be until late summer or early fall before he can go again. This bums me out just a litle because all the kids (and Barrett and I ) could go swimming while Anson was in his class-for FREE! Eden and Bo just loved it, but that's OK, it sure was nice while it lasted. Now we just have to find somewhere to practice over the next few months...Anson eyeballs the high dive every week, points to it and says,"this one?". So Barrett finally talked to the lifeguard to find out what Anson had to do to so that he could go off the diving board....
In order to jump off the high dive you have to swim 5o meters, or two lengths of the pool. Of course, I wasn't sure that Anson could do that because I don't know if I can even do that these days. But he did. And when he was done he climbed right on up to the high dive and jumped-no fear whatsoever! What a kid! I hope he doesn't forget how to do it while we wait for his next set of lessons.
In order to jump off the high dive you have to swim 5o meters, or two lengths of the pool. Of course, I wasn't sure that Anson could do that because I don't know if I can even do that these days. But he did. And when he was done he climbed right on up to the high dive and jumped-no fear whatsoever! What a kid! I hope he doesn't forget how to do it while we wait for his next set of lessons.
3 comments:
Wow, jumping off the high dive and swimming 50 meters. The kid's a natural. That's so great that he was able to do that class. He's always been a little fish.
that picture of the high dive is so awesome! He is such a champ! i love that kid and he always finds some way of surprising us!
What an achievement! How many of us would have done that at his age??? I don't know if I would have. I love that you share Anson's firsts on here...it is fun to read about them, and the pictures are a bonus!
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