The end of a tumbling era
Henry had his last tumbling session today. He was a little maniac too, running circles around the gym many times over. I'm attributing it mostly to a touch of cabin fever: on Monday, because it was my birthday, we both stayed in our PJ's until after naptime, then yesterday we woke up to a gray rainy day. Indoors is not the natural habitat for a toddler, at least not my toddler, so by this morning he was ready to see lots of people other than his mom and he was ready to expand his realm to a much bigger indoor arena. So, on his last day of tumbling, he ran around in circles, jumped on the trampoline, walked a bit on a balance beam, crawled through a tunnel, attempted to vault a big foam thing shaped like a mailbox (but then thought better of it), rode his beloved airplane for three seconds, stole some safety cones, got a timeout, spun around on a sit and spin, and got a lollipop for his trouble ("Oh boy, pop!"). The end. Last Wednesday because we were feeling totally wild and crazy, we decided to go ahead and sign him up for the next session. Henry really is enjoying it and after the first class I noticed he was doing more physical things outside of tumbling, like learning how to jump, and that can't be a bad thing.
I also signed up for the next session of belly dancing. This time we're going to learn Turkish style belly dance which is going to be a lot more aerobic. It also features a 9/8 beat which when I first heard the teacher say that thought was impossible because you can't have 9 beats in an 8 beat rhythm, but apparently you can. Can't wait to see how I do with that.