June 22, 2007
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My “Little Gym” Champion
Anna Kathryn is finished at The Little Gym for the summer. She had her grand finale a couple weeks ago with fanfare and a medal ceremony. She’s done well in her little class; she can pull herself up on the parallel bars and flip around. She can walk on the balance beam without help, and she knows some simple floor exercises. She also learned a lot this year about following directions and listening in class.
Here’s my little champion.
Stephen and William watched the proceedings with rapt attention. William tried to get in on the fun.
This little hula hooper looks more accomplished than she actually is. She knew what to do with it, but it invariably ended up at her ankles. The children also use these to practice positioning and floor exercises. Plainly speaking, she could lay it on the floor and jump her feet in and out of the circle, or do “donkey kicks” out of it.
Here are the little Champions!! The yellow wall opposite the children was lined with parents, cameras and siblings. It was quite a show.
In place of The Little Gym this summer, we’re putting our $$ into the YMCA. They have toddler arobics classes that incorporate a little bit of Kindermusik style and a bit of Little Gym’s style. This morning, AK and I tried it out. They told me she had a great time, and acted as though she had been in the class forever. I’m glad, because it gives me a chance to work out at the same time.
When Anna Kathryn learns a new word, she tries to associate it with words she already knows, and what she spits back out ends up sounding pretty funny. For instance, “flip flops” didn’t make any sense to her, so she grabbed two words she knew, and called her new shoes “foot locks.” She didn’t understand me when I explained we were going to “the gym” but she recognized the sound of what her friend Emerson calls his grandmother: “Gin-Gin”. So this morning, I handed her the YMCA ID card with her picture on it, and as she carried it into the gym, she laughed to herself, “This is such a silly picture, Mommy. This is a picture of my friend, Anna Kathryn. It’s my friend Anna Kathryn for the Gin-Gin!”
Comments (4)
That’s so funny. I have no idea what goes on in her head when she does the word association, but that’s funny! Aww, cute gym pictures… I liked gymnastics when I was her age! It’s such a good activity. Haha, in the picture of the twins, I don’t know which boy it is but the blue stripe in the red mats beside his head look like an exclamation mark over his head.
ROFL!!!!! Foot locks. Savannah used to call her feet “Beeps”. We thought it was so hilarious that we didn’t bother to correct her until all three thought feet were beeps. So funny. Kids are just too much sometimes.
Cute video. Kinda fun to see her “live”.
Well, she could call them thongs like we used to do in our day, but my girls get upset with me for some reason when I do that…