like a fish

Brian’s parents were bound and determined to teach Jake to swim this year. He’s been there a few times already this summer, but today was the day he finally swam. They used the old standby, bribery, in order to accomplish their task. Jake’s big thing with swimming is that he doesn’t like to put his head in the water. So, they told him they’d give him a pair of swimming goggles if he did just that. Last night, he did it. And today he was swimming. Apparently that was his last big hurdle. Jake even called us this afternoon to tell us how well he was doing in the pool–he couldn’t wait for this evening so that he could show us. I could not believe how well he did. He was even swimming under water. It was pretty cool. I’m sure he’ll get even better as the summer goes on.