Preschool Swimming at the Y

We joined the Mill Creek YMCA in October and we have loved it from day one. The kid activities, pool, kid watch, and gym have been so much fun where Hailey asks to go to the gym just to play with the kids.

With Hailey's ballet, swimming, potential soccer in the spring, Greg's and my, LA Fitness membership and other exercise activities, we found that if we joined the Y we would actually save money and get more out of it.

Our first activity that we have started is swimming, it is funny how our first swimming lessons when Hailey was 6 months old were at the Y until she was old enough to start at Mount Lake Terrace. Even though the pool is a bit colder, they have one of the better programs with a gradual progression to new levels and it is close enough to home to do it on the weekends if we had too but so far they have so many options for classes that we have been able to fit it into what ever the current schedule looks like.

In the summer she started her first lessons where I was not in the pool but she had a float on, these lessons she has progressed to no floats. She is in the 2nd of 3 preschool levels and I hope to have her floating and swimming on her own by summer. She just loves it and her eyes light up when she finds out it is swimming day or we get to have a bonus day and go play in the evening during open swim. Pretty soon she is going to be my little swimming buddy swimming laps. I did buy her a great swim float for use during upon swim which has allowed her to start the lap swimming and she has done such a great job and it up to 6 laps in a row. This is the part that will help build her endurance and get her arms and legs nice and strong to soon support her without the float.