Our swimming lessons are going really great! Gaby is the youngest in her class by at least 7-8 months and she is doing everything the other kids are doing and sometimes more. She can hold her breath for five seconds. And after only 5 weeks, I'm already letting her go once she falls off the ledge and letting her swim on her own towards me. I'm positive that scared me much more than it scared her. It felt so awful to let her go underwater by herself. But she did awesome! She is such a little fish and definitley loves the water!! She has never once cried during our class while all the others cry all the time. It is just so amazing watching her actually swim.
Funny story: Thursdays Gaby goes to Nanny Rocio's house from 12pm-3pm, so I can run a few errands by myself. Rocio is so wonderful with Gaby and she just loves going over there. She watches two other little boys, so Gaby is already on the road to her first boyfriends:) I figured the first few times I would leave her that she would probably be pretty upset because she is so used to it being just the two of us. So I prepared myself. I was going to be strong. Tough. And even though she was going to cry, I would still leave her there and she would learn. Would you believe she has yet to shed a tear? She's just like "Bye Mom! See ya later!" and she gets to playing. I am very proud of my little sweetie, but still a tiny part of me kinda wanted her to notice that I was "abandoning" her. I guess I was wrong. She is definitely an independent little girl:)
