School Swim Champs are only a few weeks away ...

This term the boys have been swimming every Tuesday morning and are divided into squads according to their expertise in the water. In the Years 1-3 the boys 'volunteer' to compete in the school swimming champs so you can imagine how few are putting their hands up! So ... Mummy has volunteered Joshua - and sold it to Joshua by telling him that his teacher, Mrs Bell, would really love to see him compete (that is true actually)!

Josh was certainly not keen on the thought at the beginning but has now embraced it and, in fact, the other night asked if we could go down to the pool to practise! Joshua is competing in the 25xmetre freestyle and 25xmetre backstroke. His backstroke style is actually very good ... however, his freestyle needs some work though !!

So we took Spencer down to the pool as well and practised both our diving and our swimming. It is amazing how much more determined Joshua is when he is competing against another buddy, albeit in a friendly way, as opposed to swimming with us.

Pushing off to commence his 25xmetre length of freestyle

We had some very funny and 'interesting' diving moments !

And then there is ALWAYS time for fooling around and having fun in the water!