Swim meets

We've had 3 swim meets so far this summer and they have only gotten progressively better each week. After Sean's first attempt at his 25 meter free style, he cried hysterically. He just started crying about 10 feet from the wall in the pool and I could see him struggle to finish. It broke my heart to see him struggle like that. But, I didn't want to encourage giving up, so we decided he needed to work harder and swim the whole race without stopping. He did just that during his second meet. He made it all the way to the end without stopping taking off 12 seconds of his original time. For his third meet, I noticed he was placed in lane 4 which is where the faster swimmers are placed (towards the outside there is more wake so they give the advantage to faster swimmers by letting them swim in the middle of the pool). Since he was in the middle I knew he had a good chance at winning his heat if he worked hard. Unfortunately someone false started and so the loud siren went off which signals the swimmers to STOP swimming. Sadly, the 6 and under boys just kept swimming and swimming until an older swimmer jumped in and stopped them Sean was almost to the end went they stopped him. So, now he had to do it all over again with a few minutes to recover. He jumped back in and swam his little heart out to earn his first ever win in his heat. The reward is the coveted lolipop which he carried around proudly like it was a trophy. The next morning he woke up with it in his hand! He still hasn't eaten to this day. I've never seen him so proud of himself! We look forward to each week to see his improvement. He took off another 3 second last week after the false start. Who knows what he has in store? Maybe he'll take after me and become a swimmer!

There he is with his lolipop! (kona ice too!)