Gymboree

Our now typical Thursday morning activity is to go to our Gymboree class. For those not familiar, it's associated with the Gymboree clothing stores, but not in the same location (learned that the hard way, the first time we tried to go to class!). It's not really a "Mommy & Me" class, but does provide a structured, at least as structured as you can be with toddlers, learning environment. We do lots of climbing, jumping, and throwing of balls. But we also try to reinforce concepts such as "up & down", "in & out", "side-by-side". All of the teachers that we have had are wonderful. We particularly like Ms. Wendy who does the Thursday morning class, but enjoy Melissa & Marissa who do the Thursday evening and Friday morning class. They also have music & art classes as well, but we've yet to try those out, as Brendan is so hyper and enjoys burning off energy during the class. There is also "Open Gym" times thoughout the week, but we've been too busy to make them so far. :( If anyone is interested in more information, please send me an email. I have coupons for a free preview class that anyone is welcome to! They have classes for children ages 6 months up thru school age.

Anyway...here are some pictures of Brendan having fun last week.



He's finally getting brave enough to go on the paracute ride towards the end of the class.

I think that his favorite part of the class is playing with the bubbles!