Swim Lessons

I wrote this post a week ago and forgot to publish it!
Both kids started swim lessons at our community pool last week, for the very first time ever! They were very excited, from the get go. The teacher is a sweet, awesome looking 20-something, who has no idea of his diagnosis whatsoever. I decided to wait it out and tell her, only if I felt the need to.
The first lesson went very smooth. From the second lesson onward, Aditya was extremely friendly, chatty and even wanted to show off. Initially teacher Ruth counted how long he could hold his breath, then asked him to count while she demonstrated. "Well, which language do you want me to count in?"
R: "Whatever you are comfortable with!"
A: "This time I'll count in German. But I can count only up to 40 in German." and they both laughed.
When he was doing a back float, he started counting in French (which he remembered only till 10) and easily switched to English starting 11. No second guessing himself, no judging himself for not remembering. How cool is that!
He was highly social, interactive and chatty throughout all lessons till date (Today was the fourth). He even told her once that it didn't seem as scary when she showed him how to do something, but when he tried, he was scared of drowning. "I know you won't let me drown, but I am still scared for my life!"
I can see him being challenged (physically) like never before, but he is so motivated that he can move mountains.
Today, as he was relaxing after his lesson, he started telling me (rather, bragging) how he went over to the deeper end for a safety lesson. He then narrated everything that happened in that half hour. Unprompted! And I had been standing right there the whole time, so I knew that he was telling everything - leaving out neither the part where he felt scared nor where he could go for 12 seconds when asked to go for only 10. And he told it all because he felt like sharing it with me! YAY!