Luke doesn't hate strangers?

Luke's been doing swimming lessons for 4 months now, and four weeks ago his regular teacher wasn't there. He didn't want to go in the water with the woman they scheduled in her place, and I had to carry him to the water and hand him to her! I was really scared that he'd get stubborn and refuse to participate that week, but in less than 2 minutes he was happily swimming with her. Since then he's had a sub again two of three weeks (I hope Richelle is ok!), and he's happily gotten in the pool with both of them! I think he makes more progress swimming with a teacher who is more familiar with him and what he's working on, but these few weeks with the variety of teachers is giving him an entirely different kind of confidence. I'm thrilled.

It's transferring, too - a couple weeks ago we took him skiing the first time and he went into the ski-school room to join his class and unknown teachers easily. He loved skiing.