Thursday, March 10, 2011

swimming lessons

Ammon started swimming lessons a couple of weeks ago. At first he hated it because he hates getting water on his face and hates being cold. He was so skinny compared to everyone else and was always shivering cause he has no fat to insulate him from the cold. We're working on getting him more plump! We figured out that he needed to have a swim shirt on which helped a lot. As time went on he started to enjoy it more, although I frequently had to bribe him to stay for the whole lesson with ice cream cones from McDonalds. Whenever he thought about stopping the threat of losing his ice cream cone was enough to get him right back on track. Is that bad of me? By the end of the season he was doing so much better. He would even jump in the water!! That was a very big step for him!

This is what would happen if water got on his face

very sad


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