ms. gracie. she's the pool with her daughter cheryl. >> look at her. >> oh, wow. >> cheryl and her husband rj are giving ms. gracie swimming lessons. >> for the first time? >> for the very first time. >> better late than never. >> she gets warmed up and she's ready. grand grandma got gams. she's in her 80s. look at her. first they teach her how to float. >> it's all about relaxing. as soon as you tense up you sink like a rock. >> i feel like i want to give her a raft and dabbingerry and say just relax. >> they say when they went to visit ms. gracie they bought her two new pair of shoes and she said that she felt she was ready for just about anything. cheryl and rj have been trying to get her to learn to swim for quite some time and she wouldn't do it. but something about buying those new shoes gave her a new start. >> well they're slippers. >> my sister tagged me in this video on facebook. she connected with smaller after we aired her story auld alpeesha. i think it hit home for our sister and i