Swimming

Today K had swim team practice and we ended up spending the day at the pool. She had a swim meet on Saturday and jumped in for freestyle and started crying. D was upset because she's done a lap in a meet without a problem but now seems to have regressed. He said no more swim meets if she was just going to cry and not swim. She ended up swimming the backstroke with an older girl in the water with her. She tends to get turned around when she swims backstroke so she usually has someone in the water with her. I was impressed that she did that.

Today she swam a lap of freestyle by herself without a problem. No one was in the water with her. The coach says lets put someone in the water with her at the meet but I really don't want to give in to K's fears. Maybe I'm being too hard on her? She does fine when it is not a meet atmosphere but the commotion seems to scare her. I'm not sure what tomorrow will bring. There may be many family members coming to see her swim tomorrow because this meet is local. I'm afraid that will make her fears worse. She told me today that she'll swim by herself tomorrow. She seemed happy and confident about it.

Here's a picture of her at the swim meet