Today was the end of the first week of swimming lessons for the boys. It was a "play day" where the children got to play games with the teachers, go off the diving board and down the water slide.
Michael gave me quite the scare! Most of the kids were going down the water slide and that is where all of the swimming teachers were. Well a couple of the kids decided to go off the diving board without a teacher in the pool watching and helping if needed. All of the other kids going off the diving board had been in swimming lessons longer and are better swimmers than Michael. Well he saw the other kids jump off the diving board without a teacher so he thought that he could too. Now granted he had jumped off the diving board countless time before but never without someone there to help him a little bit to get to the side of the pool.
Luckily I was watching because after he jumped he started swimming to the side of the pool but started getting tired. He was close but then he started to get afraid and started going under. I was yelling for someone to help Michael as I was running to him but I got to him before anyone else realized what was going on. I put down baby Glen on the ground and was able to grab him just in time. At that moment the teachers realized what was going on. Lets just say Michael got a good number of people pretty shook up. I think that it hit Me and Michael the most though. What a horrible thing to watch one of your own children drowning right before your very eyes!
Michael is such a good sport, even though he was scared half to death he got back up on the diving board, this time with a teacher in the pool, and jumped off one more time. Even though he was on the verge of tears up there he agreed to do it again to help him not be afraid of something that he used to love. What a trooper!
Now I can't look at Michael without thinking how close I was to losing my precious little boy. What a horrible thought! Hopefully I can make it through the next couple of weeks of swimming lessons.
