Mr. Physical

As everyone who knows Blake already knows, he loves anything physical and rises to any physical challenge. I took a few videos over the last week or so of some examples of this. The first one is something the kids love to do--jumping off the stairs into Matt's arms. Wyatt and Sadie are both definitely more cautious, but clearly Blake is not. You have to watch the video several times to really appreciate the air he gets and the commitment he makes to the jump. The second video is of Blake at swimming lessons this week. He just started lessons about a month ago and they are just once a week, but he quickly progressed (props to his teachers--and all the teachers for that matter--at FOSS swim school). He started out in Level 1 and has no prior swimming experience, but as you can see, he quickly 'got it' and his teacher told me he'll be skipping level 2 and going straight to level 3.





Many of Blake's physical accomplishments are not positives in my book (scaling countertops, climbing out of his crib, etc) but I am SO grateful for his swimming abilities because the better the kids get at swimming, the less I have to worry about them drowning! This last week, he was doing back floats independently and learning how to swim on his back!
(FOSS swim school has been SO amazing for my kids and I can't say enough good things about it. The classes are small, instructors are always so positive and excited and my kids have learned so much in short periods of time. Wyatt and Sadie had safety week this week in their classes and had to learn how to swim with clothes on and without goggles---I never would have thought of these things!)