September
2007
Organized and Not So Organized Activities
Yesterday I took the boys to this really cool morning of play at the North East Edmonton Gymnastics Club. I met another wife from the department who has been taking her girls to this drop-in morning so I decided to meet up with her and check it out. Basically it a giant room of gymnastics equipment and the kids run around and play on whatever they want. I like that’s it’s not organized because I don’t think the boys could handle, “now we’re going to practice our tumbling…” when there’s a room full of other fun things to play on. Especially when I have them both together by myself! So the boys got to swing on rings and high bars, balance on balance beams, jump on trampolines and run, hop and roll down this long trampoline like run with obstacles for them to run/hop over or around (it probably has an official name). Everything was their height and when it wasn’t (maybe a bigger kid was on it) someone would change the height for us. We haven’t yet got to try the rope swing, the horse, or much of the tumbling mat. But we’ll try that next week. I’ve been getting really anxious about how bad this winter is going to be with them in the house, but now we can look forward to Gymnastics Fridays!
So that was our unorganized activity for the week. Our organized activity is that the boys are taking swimming lessons again. Saturday mornings at Londonderry Leisure Centre. It’s a huge pool with swim lessons going on all morning so the boys can watch the bigger kids having lessons too, which they seem mesmerized by. This place is really cool because they have a teaching pool for the little ones that’s only 2 feet high. The place we were last year didn’t have that. The boys can actually touch the bottom which they think is the greatest, and we don’t have to hold them the whole time which gives them some independence. Today was just getting used to everything so we practiced bubbles and front and back floating. Bran loves to back float and he’s getting very good at it! Drew is getting good at bubbles and will sometimes push off with his feet and semi-swim/float just a short distance, maybe 6 inches until he starts to go under and then comes up sputtering, but not upset. It’s a 10 week class and I think they’re really going to enjoy it.
How do you handle both of them in the pool? Are you by yourself? Swimming sounds like a lot of fun but I don’t know how I’d do it with Sadie and Caleb together.
Ahh, the trick is…bring hubby along! We go Saturday mornings so Mike can be there too. And even though Mike hates swimming, he really enjoys taking the boys to lessons and helping the boys learn. So it’s a fun family morning.