Natasha started a gymnastics class today! It was the funniest thing ever... I signed her up for an 18-week session of a parent-n-tot toddler tumbling, and it really went much better than expected. She had a blast... When I was signing her up a few weeks back, the coach told me they usually have between 5-8 kids per class, but surprisingly she was the only one there! Another little boy signed up for the Friday session but didn't show up so she had a personalized class today.

The warm-up was joined with the older 3-4 age group - they had a 10 minute running/dancing session (all to music), and then they did some mini-stretches. Then the older kids went off with their own coach, while Natasha, her coach, and I did exercises for her age. She got to do mini-cartwheels on the mats, walked on a high balance-beam, practiced sliding off an elephant slide, jumped on both a toddler-trampoline and a huge adult trampoline (her favourite part by far!), got to hang on a bunch of ropes, and practiced jumping on these huge mattresses. She found the whole thing so amusing and was laughing her head off the entire time.

She was so sad we had to leave and while I was putting her shoes on, she kept pointing at the gym and going, "jump? jump? more?" After we got home, she ate, and took a 3-hour power nap. She then spent the rest of the afternoon practicing jumping!