Gymnastics

The highlight of the girls' week is always their Little Gym classes! Almost everyday they wake up and ask, "Is it my Little Gym day today?!" Willa takes a parent-child class (I go in with her) and Larkin goes in to a class by herself while we watch behind the glass. Our friend Daphne had her birthday party at Little Gym this weekend, so it was the perfect opportunity to snap a bunch of pics of what the girls do there each week!

Here's Willa on the balance beam. She is a little too confident on here and sometimes tries to break out into an almost-run! In Larkin's class they do forward rolls on the beam--which made all the moms (me included) panic a little the first time we saw them do it!

Larkin on the uneven bars--she knows how to flip over the bar by herself, and she even did it once on the high bar!


Parachute! The girls love when they get to take out the parachute and toss balls around in it, sing songs while rotating it around, or hide underneath it with their teacher!
Air Track--This is a big inflatable that the kids love to bounce on! They get to sit on it too when it's inflating/deflating.


We read a book about a circus this week and Larkin's been going around telling everyone that she wants to be an acrobat when she grows up. She spends at least an hour or two each day working on her "homework"--which she assigns herself. She'll do about 50 handstands or cartwheels until she gets it just right, and if you try to give her some kind of help or tip, she'll say, "Mommy, just watch me. I'm doing my homework and I'm learning and learning. I have to keep practicing to get strong for my Little Gym. "


About a week or two ago Willa figured out how to do a handstand. She let out the biggest squeal once she realized that she was really doing it! A couple of times at night we've heard really weird noises coming from her room and when we went to check on her, we found her doing handstands in the dark!! It takes her three kicks (and a few grunts) to get her legs up above her, but she can do it!