Too Cool

What up, dawg?

Yeah, I know I'm cute! Why does everything look purpley?

Oh, that's better.

I'm pretending this is a saxophone. Groovy!
Daddy shelled out the big bucks for some $1 sunglasses from the associate store last Saturday. We actually kept them on for a little while while we had our bottles.

Saturday morning, we took the kids to a free trial class at The Little Gym in Rogers. They offer gymnastics, karate, and parent/child infant and toddler movement classes. It was a 45 minute class consisting of music/rhythm skills development, body/anatomy awareness, large/core muscle group development, simple gymnastics skills, and free time on the different apparati. I think that I just summed up the class better than their brochure! : ) In laymans terms...here's what we did: We started the class with hand held jingle bells (shake in rhythm to the music), and then rhythm sticks (in rhythm to the music and also with counting and tapping different body parts). Then we did assisted walking and running and holding them up on their stomachs to develop back strength. Then we did assisted wheel barrow and front rolls. After that, we got free time on all of the big soft gym mat equipment. We also got to help the kids walk on a balance beam and hold onto and swing on one of the uneven bars.

Alec absolutely loved all of it, and really had fun and did well with all of the gym skills. I was really surprised when he held onto the bar and let me swing him. He did the assisted wheel barrow walk, and even an assisted hand stand on the beam. Emma spent most of her time a little disconcerted, wondering who the heck all of these weird people were, and what the heck all of the weird stuff in the room was. She had fun when we just let her roam freely, but didn't like it when we tried to wrangle her in to do the group activities. She's a wild child. She did do really well with front rolls, and now loves to do them at home.

So, we really enjoyed our free trial class, and even left with complementary onesies and hand stamps for the kids. (You can see the stamps in the pics above...no, they didn't go clubbing the night before!) However, after reading the brochure and seeing how ridiculously expensive it is, we've decided that we're not going to enroll. I can't justify paying around $600 per semester for my two kids to take one 45 min class per week that (very hushedly and under my breath)...Aaron and I can do with them at home- remember, I am a dance teacher. I do like the idea of having them in a class with other children for socialization, but honestly, they didn't get to interact with the other children much.

We are planning to enroll them in the Walton Life Fitness Center parent/child swim classes when the new semester starts, though. It's waaaaaaaay more affordable, and they love water.