Learning to Swim on her own!!!!!

Sooooo.....our BIG Girl is learning to swim. We've been trying for weeks to talk her into letting us swim with her without her floaty on, to proove to her she can at least touch in the shallow end on her tippy toes! And to our amazement, she let us do it tonight. Not only that, but as soon as she conquered walking around the shallow end on her own, she jumped off the swim step and swam out to us all on her own. She kicked her little feet and kept her head above water just right (and Mike even checked under the water while she swam to confirm that her feet were not touching the bottom as she kicked)! Who knew!!!???!!!! She was SOOO proud of herself and even showed us how she could pull herself out of the pool all by herself (another first).
Here's the 1st of 2 quick videos from tonight with her swimming without her floaty!