My Little Swimmer

Lillian has finished her ISR swim lessons and can successfully do the swim-float-swim sequence all on her own!  She has even asked to go in the pool so she can practice some more.  Here is a video I took of Greg in the pool with her yesterday.  She even loves to jump from the wall! She is so excited about the water now and can't wait to get in.  I'm sure she'd go everyday if I let her.  A thank you to her swim instructor, Samantha Bense!  If you are in the San Diego area and want to enroll your child in ISR swim lessons contact Samantha.  If you are outside the area ISR has instructors everywhere, just go to infantswim.com  to find an instructor near you. 

Swimming Lessons

Lillian started swimming lessons only 3 weeks ago.  These are different than your normal lessons; they are infant survival.  Lessons are held Monday through Fridays for less than 10 min a day.  She is not cued on what to do verbally only by small touches.  Lillian has learned how to hold/pull herself up the stairs, hold her breath and "swim" on her belly and roll over and float on her back to catch her breath.  The first couple days were the roughest for me, I could see panic in her face at times but knew she had to figure things out on her own in order for her to remember it.  She would cry/whine during every lesson but now she is happy and it all makes sense as to why she does each activity.  Here is video of her swimming for just 3 weeks!  

If you would like more information on these lessons please visit: http://www.infantswim.com/.  
On that website you can find a local swim instructor.  If you are in the San Diego area looking for lessons you can contact Samantha Bense from the website.  Infant Swim Rescue is designed and takes a stand so children do not drown.  I am confident if Lillian ever found herself falling in a pool she would be able to hold her breath, roll over on her back and float until help arrived.  Once her lessons are finished she will be able to swim to the wall or stairs, rolling on her back to catch her breath.  

20 months old

I can't believe Lillian will be 2 in four more months!  She is incredibly independent and is continually amazing us with how much she picks up so quick.  Here is a picture slideshow of this month so far:

We recently visited a children's museum as shown in the pictures.  Lillian had a blast and I caught a little video of daddy playing with Lillian on little chairs.  I don't know if she enjoyed it or not....

For Father's Day we went camping on Palomar Mountain.  Unfortunately, they will be closing it to public camping next month; when Greg heard this we knew we'd have to have one final trip recounting all his memories there.  Camping at the national park was full so we camped at a nearby site and went in for the day.  Recently I've been singing songs with Lillian and with all the time we had camping she learned "Old McDonald".... she is really quite cute but some of her animal noises are quiet so listen carefully ;)

Little Drummer Girl

Lillian finally figured out how to use her drum rather than just a container for all the other musical instruments.  She used to play with it as a drum but she hasn't again since December.  I showed her videos of marching bands too so now she imitates them. :)

"Good Girl"

Lillian has been picking up words like crazy.... it is funny to be having a conversation with Greg or have the radio on and all of a sudden hear her repeat a word she knows.  Recently the song "Good Girl" by Carrie Underwood has been a big hit!  I had to prompt her more than normal in the video but it's still cute :)

Getting dressed

Lillian is very into doing everything herself!  Today she wanted to get dressed herself....

Girls just want to have fun!

I have tried to get her to wear this purse before and she had no interest in it whatsoever.  Today she came out of her room with her beads on and not one but two purses on!  It's funny, she holds her arm up in the air to keep it on her shoulder.  She is more of a tom boy, likes to get dirty and is fearless.... the other day she carried home a pet rock about 4 blocks from a little hike with daddy.  So the occasional moments she is a girly girl is fun.