Gymnastics and Swim Lessons

I have been way behind in my blogging, so I guess I better catch up a little. There are a couple of things I wanted to blog about, so that I didn't forget them in the future! The first being that back in August, Mattie started taking gymnastics once a week. Matt and I went back in forth on whether we were going to put Mo in preschool this fall. We really wanted to because she is so social and smart, but at the same time, I felt she was still young, and I wasn't ready to give up my daytime stuff with her yet. Also, she was still wanting to do swim lessons, and they would have interfered with preschool. We decided to hold off on preschool for now, but we still wanted her to have her own outlet, since we have the baby coming soon. We thought about putting her in a dance class, but decided gymnastics would allow her to use more of her energy.

My friend suggested a place that she takes her kids called Tumbleweeds, so MoMo and I checked it out. Immediately I loved this place. It is an Olympic size training facility, and it looked like it would be super fun. They offered two different classes for her age group. One was for 2-3 year olds and a parent has to participate. I definitely didn't want to do that one! The other was for 3-6 year olds, and they have to be potty trained and be ok being away from parents. Since Mattie was almost 3, they let her join that class. Its called the Sweet Peas. The lady helping me asked if Mattie wanted to try a make up class, since she had missed the first one of the fall session. We stayed and Mattie tried the class. She LOVED it!

We enrolled her, and she has been enjoying them every week!

Her favorite thing to do at gymnastics is the balance beam. No matter what fun things they do during their 45 minute class, she always tells us that the balance beam is her favorite.

The parents sit on the other side of walls with big windows and watch. The children go throughout the gym and do all kinds of things, from the bar to the trampoline to floor exercise stuff. She is loving it, and I am loving it because its something for her to do on her own!

The other thing that I wanted to blog about was Mo's swim lessons coming to an end. Mattie has been taking swim lessons since April, and this is her last month taking them.

Lessons will stop for the winter season and start back up in the spring. And, for only $20 a month, I'm sure we'll be doing it again next year! Last month when Mattie turned 3, she was able to graduate to the Preschool class. She had a lot of fun, because there were quite a few of her friends from church taking the Preschool class too!

I loved it because I didn't have to get in the water with her anymore! She practiced all of her skills from swimming under water, to floating on her back, to diving under water for the sinking rings. The last week of lessons for that session, the teachers put life vests on the children and let them jump off the diving board. Some kids were a little timid, and some had no fear! One guess to how Miss Mattie reacted!

She jumped right in like a pro! I'm glad that she is not a timid child, but sometimes that can be scary. (My mom tells me that I was the same way!) Tomorrow is Mattie's last day of swim lessons, because we will be out of town next week when they are really finishing. I'm glad that she got to do the diving board last month, since she'll miss it next week. So, until next spring, Little Fish MoMo will have to make due with only gymnastics and a new baby brother!