It’s a class of older girls, with Noah, and lots of jumping and climbing. Of course he loves it! Today was his first day, it took a while for me to decide to switch him from yoga to gymnastics, but it is so much better for him! Our Y has lots of sports class for 3 years olds (and up, this is 3-5) and its funny how even with three year olds there is definitely a divide- this is four girls and Noah, and the floor hockey classes usually have maybe one girl in them. But this seems like it’s teaching him a lot of body skills that will be good for anything for the rest of his life, so I’m glad he
picked gymnastics. The other choices were hockey, basketball, soccer, or mixed sports, but they were all at one pm, which is a little risky to do a fifteen minute car ride at that hour. Risk of napping, that is.
So, in gymnastics, they did stretching, then jumping on a mini springboard onto a big mat where they did a somersault, now they are on a 6 inch high balance beam going forwards, then sideways and backwards. There’s an itty bitty high bar they are doing hip circles on, and then a tumbling line with soft blocks to climb and slide down. It’s adorable, and I can see Noah working hard and getting better even by his last turn on each piece of equipment.
We never did My Gym, or any of the other toddler gym classes (for one thing, they are really pricey) but this is a whole lot of happiness packed into 45 minutes.
Addenda: leaving the gym, we actually saw one of those assholes that have been making their own parking spot because the real spots that are close to the entrance are full. The whole lot isn’t full, just the good spots, and it makes the lot much more dangerous to cross with a bouncy three year old. I said to her, “that isn’t a parking spot” but unsurprisingly, she was suddenly struck deaf and didn’t acknowledge me. Why are you going to the gym if you are too lazy to walk across a parking lot?!?
