Gymnastics - Week 5, Day 2

I didn't realize I hadn't posted about last Wednesday yet!  Oops!  Let's see if I can remember :)

Peanut had a rougher time than usual last Wednesday as well.  I really think the sunshine and warm weather has taken its toll on our little one - she's still adjusting to the exhaustion that happens after playing outside.  She's been napping a lot longer than she had been (anywhere from 2-3 hours when she was down to 1 hour or an hour and a half!) and she's been going down for bed earlier and sleeping in later in the mornings lately.  Unfortunately, I've been bragging to Ben about how well she's done on Wednesday mornings....of course, he came to last Wednesday (since he took the day off for our anniversary) - and she struggled more than she ever has.  Oh well, you win some you lose some.

The class on Wednesday started by playing the bug matching game again, but Peanut just wanted to run laps and go crazy.  I let her run all of her energy out, hoping she'd do the activities she was supposed to after the warm up.

Then the kids went to bars.  Peanut did okay on bars, but I had to really encourage her to do all of the exercises - forward flip, clapping feet like a butterfly, chin ups on the uneven bars, jumping and standing up on the floor bar.  It took a lot of cheering on my part, and Miss Lina was a huge help in motivating our little one.

From bars the kids went to beam and our Peanut was struggling.  She did one whole set of the forward roll on the floor beam, hopping over targets on the mid beam, and scoops on the high beam - but then she started melting down and wanting a break.

After bars the class went to floor.  We made it one time through with a lot of encouragement (rolling up and down wedge mat, cricket legs, back walkover, frog hops, smashing the bug), but then Peanut got a time out because she hit me when she wasn't happy about something.  We sat out the rest of the floor rotation (it was pretty short - her time outs only last a minute at this age).

Then they went to the trampoline, where she did great.  She really loves that trampoline.  She's getting off of the trampoline all by herself now and she does seat drops (although she can't get back to her feet afterward just yet).  She's come a long way.

Then the class went to tumble track and she did one pass down that.  She wasn't ready to leave at the end!  Just goes to show you that even when the day starts a little rough, things can turn around quickly :).

Hopefully this Wednesday will be better, there is no class tonight because of Memorial Day.