screw driver

no idea how he came up with that word...

z had his first "starbabies" class today at the oregon gymnastics academy. this was the class to which he was demoted. only one other child showed up (out of 6 that were supposed to be there), and that little girl wasn't feeling well & ended up going home early, so it was basically just a private playing session with teacher mariah. it's bring a friend week at oga, so there was a huge bouncy playing pen set up in the center of the floor. she spent most of the time working with z to get him jumping. he now likes to say "boing." he was sort of getting the hang of jumping at times, letting his knees move and catching a bit of air on the bouncing contraption. but of course he found the air compressor for the bouncing thing & started crying when we wouldn't let him go & investigate. he did some forward rolls, & almost did one all by himself! this is definitely a better match for him. the teacher had some squeaky rubber chickens, & she put some on the balance beam & actually got him to walk on it, stepping on the chickens. he did one foot in front of the other & everything. she was holding both of his hands when he did that, so she tried to get him to go one step further, just holding onto one hand (or no hands), but he wouldn't do it for very long, & we had to go to another area. he did very well doing the bear walk down the trampoline run - it's so cute seeing him do that! next class i'm going to bring a camera & take some videos.