Walden Pond: Learning to Swim

At the beginning of the summer, Kate loved to run right into the water (up to her neck!), but suddenly she became pretty fearful of being in deeper than her toes.  I found this life preserver at Target and figured it was worth a try (it did after all have monkeys on it).  It did the trick!  Kate loves it and it enables her to float all around without being scared.  Here are some pics of the first trial with it

 Getting some energy...

Getting her nerve up

Holding on to mama for a while

Launched!

Joy!

Off to find new adventures

She was in for almost an hour and had to be bribed to come out...She loves the water like her mama!