Today was a rough day at gymnastics for most of the kiddos, ours included. The past few days have been extremely warm temperatures for May in Michigan (around 80!) and most of the kids were worn out from playing outside and enjoying the sunshine (Class runs 6:45-7:30, which is the start of bedtime hour for our little one normally. I know that was the case for Peanut - she took a 2.5 hour nap today and she has been consistently napping for only an hour and a half most days.
The group started off doing a bug matching game where they jumped to different bug cards and picked them up then took them to the teacher. Peanut brought a few different matches to Miss Lina with my help and did really well with this exercise. Toward the end of the warm-up when she was getting tired of the matching game, she just ran laps back and forth down the mats.
After the matching game the kiddos went to bars, where they did a couple of new exercises. They started out with the normal flip over the bar, then did a butterfly clap exercise with their feet on the mini uneven bars (Peanut actually held on while I helped her clap her feet together! I was so proud, her and her daddy have been working on holding on to the bar and she got it!), they did the chin up exercise on the larger uneven bars, and then did a hop up stand up exercise on the bar on the floor. Peanut did all of the bars exercises three times and I was so proud of her!
That's when things started to go south. From bars the kids went to floor. Peanut only wanted to do the back walkover exercise. She completed the whole course once (rolling exercise up and down the wedge mat, bicycle exercise on a cat stretch mat, back walkover, frog hops, and a smash the spider jump down from the mat) but then wanted nothing to do with any exercises but the back walkover. I convinced her to do a couple of the stations again, but then she just wanted to be in my arms and wait out the rotation.
Thankfully, the group was all losing interest so the kids didn't stay at floor for very long. Unfortunately, we then went to beam and Peanut was melting down plus I was starting to not feel good (I was over hungry, over tired, and over heated - the gym is warm!). Daddy came to the rescue - we tag-teamed so that I could sit down and he took over with Peanut. He successfully got her to do the low beam (jumping/stepping over targets) and the high beam (ice cream scoops) and by that point the group was headed to the trampoline.
Peanut did some decent jumping on the trampoline and then the kids went down the tumble track once.
Hopefully Wednesday will go a little bit better! :)
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