Gymnastics!

Our Mom's group made a visit to Gymnastics Gold again. We always love going to these gymnastics meetups!! This time, they had it divided into age groups. Madeline went along with the "older" children for teacher instructed class: Mighty Mytes. I could easily see her from where I was with Ethan for the Mommy and Me class. I would like him to do a class independently, but he is still quite shy when he first encounters new and/or unfamiliar environments. He was excited to "play" on all of the equipment, but if he noticed the teacher or other parents (actually there was only two other adults with our age group and they were a set of grandparents) looking at him, he would climb behind me and hide or drop to the ground and hide his eyes. I know this is just how he is initially as he just need time to warm up...and to know that Mommy isn't around :) Once he started getting a little comfortable, I started chatting with a friend and then eventually had that friend block his view of me. He went to get on the balance beam, but knew he needed help. He looked all around for me but couldn't see me. Miss Sparky saw me "hiding" so she walked over and asked Ethan if he wanted to hold her hand. He took one last look for me and then gave it...and never looked back. Even after eventually noticing me, he was ok to let Miss Sparky, as well as others, help him. :) Good job Ethan :)

Here's Miss Sparky giving Ethan a little help over the rock wall. This was one f his favorite pieces and something he did probably 8-10 times. He could climb up the wall himself, but needed help getting his legs over to the other side:

Every time I caught a glimpse of Madeline, she had a huge smile on her face :)

Bear Crawl:

JUMPING!!

Good times!