Monday, August 17th

We had our first Little Gym class this morning. Ryder LOVED it! He's in the "Birds" class, which is 10-19 months. There was about 10 babies in the class, only a few of them were walking. Most of them were about Ryder's age and were just crawling like him. We sang songs, played with balls, walked the balance beam...(which in Ryder's case, he JUMPED all the way down the balance beam...the instructor said he has never had a baby jump down the beam before...he nicknamed him "Tigger"), did push ups, and at the end of the class he turned on a bubble machine on the ceiling and all the babies chased after the bubbles. There was one activity where we put all the babies in the middle of a huge parachute. We bounced the parachute and spun them around. He was in the middle laughing so hard. Then we put them underneath the parachute and dropped it up and down on top of them. He was crawling around underneath just giggling. I think that was his favorite activity. Ryder just loved having all the babies around him. He loved playing with them. I had to go retrieve him a few times...he was pulling some of the little kids down. :) We will be going every Monday thru December. I was so happy Ryder enjoyed it so much. He was exhausted...fell asleep about 2 minutes after we left the parking lot.