This summer was the year of Swim Team. When the kids and I were in England and Dave was house hunting for us, he sent us pictures of the house we wanted to buy (this one) and a big selling point for the kids was that it had a community swim team. At the time we were wrapping up 3 years of pretty regular swim lessons at the Hydro. Hilde is a natural swimmer, she is graceful and lovely in the water. Enoch enjoys the water, but swim strokes were not coming as naturally to him. We bought the house and moved to Virginia in August of 2011. It was too late for swim team that year. The next year I was working full time which meant there was no possibility of swim team again. This year was different though, and we signed the kids up. It was a big time commitment, with me having to wrangle the two younger kids for two hours every day while the older two had practice. But, in the end, it was definitely worth it. Hilde picked up right where she left off, and was one of the best on the team for backstroke for her age group. Enoch started the summer barely making the team. You had to swim one length of the pool without stopping, any stroke. Enoch barely did it, but his look of pure joy after completing it was priceless. By the end of the summer he was begging to do the IM, and could do freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and some butterfly. These kids are awesome.
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