Jumping into the Deep End

Ruthie has been getting braver and braver with her swimming and she's been improving by leaps and bounds over the last few weeks. (If you missed the blog post about the girls' swimming accomplishments this summer you can find it here.)Today she wanted to go off the diving board without a noodle. I told her she had to have a noodle. So she jumped in and "accidentally" dropped her noodle when she jumped in. Then instead of grabbing the noodle she simply swam to the side. So then I let her jump in without the noodle. She did SO well!