YAY Kinsey!

Kinsey decided that she wanted to get her black band so she could go down the slide. She's a VERY determined person and learned to swim because she wanted to jump off a diving board. Although she does a great job 'swimming', she doesn't know how to do a stroke or get her arms out of the water consistently so I wasn't sure she'd get her band. Having said that, she is super strong at going across the pool (not sure how...mainly kicking I guess). She does swim with her head in the water and come up for breaths. I'll have to video it because I can't describe it. Anyway, the first day she took the test she was only able to tread water 29 seconds instead of 30 so she didn't pass. (I had never even taught her to tread water and she had been swimming for 3 hours at that point...I just said, "don't let your head go under water").

Day 2 I took her aside and worked on treading water with her. Kinsey took to it right away and she wanted to test again (this time after only an hour of swimming). She passed! Great job, Kinsey!

swimming one length of the pool

treading water for 30 sec after swimming a length (without
touching the wall or taking a break)

the verdict: she passed!

kinsey was SO excited to get her black band and join her siblings
in going down the slide!

YAY kinsey! We are SO proud of you!