~Park & Gymnastics~

We are loving the warm weather! So last Friday Nate and I decided to check out a new park in El Dorado Hills. It had a separate "toddler" park that was enclosed and had the foamy ground. It also had the double swings which we hadn't yet had a chance to put the twins in. It went great!! As you can tell the twins loved the swing! We put them in separate later but they preferred to be with each other. The park also had a sandbox and Jake loved it! Aly couldn't figure out why it was so hard to walk in the sand, so she kept getting frustrated and had to be removed :-) She loved the slides and all the other kids there. Ethan slept through the whole thing so he must have enjoyed it as well! We're looking forward to taking Jon this weekend, the other side of the park is for bigger kids and even has a rock-climbing wall type thing.

Our other great adventure happened today. I enrolled the twins in a gymnastics tumbling class. The first class is free, thank goodness since one of the monkey's didn't like it! The hardest part about the class is the fact that it's at 10:30am, which happens to be nap-time... Jake did not handle that very well. He managed to have some fun, but as soon as the coach put him in the ball pit it was all over, he had a major melt-down! Thank goodness there weren't any other kids this week so the coach could help with Aly while I dealt with Jake.

Now Aly on the other hand had a BLAST!! Aly found her calling... She did everything the coach told her too, including jump! Aly's always been very balanced and sure-footed but I had no idea just how good she was. She was able to walk on the balance beam -- putting one foot in front of the other while the coach held her hand! She loved the trampolines and loved rolling down the mats. There were little feet on the ground to follow (a path type thing) and she followed them all around without any guidance... heck I didn't even know what they were for! She's so close to doing a somersault on her own, I'm sure she'll have that down in a week! I had planned on putting her in dance class at 2 or so but that is definitely on the back burner for now.

Jon is also going back to gymnastics--he did it for a couple months last year but it interfered with soccer and that had to go. Hopefully we won't have the same problem this year. He loves it too! He says that he likes everything about it, but the rope is hard. Yet he's the only one that can climb to the top without any assistance, including the wood thing for under their feet. It helps that at 8.5 years old he still only weighs 48lbs or so.

We have an exciting couple weeks ahead! Uncle Mason (Nathan's brother) and Marcela (Mason's girlfriend) are coming up to visit this weekend, along with grandma and grandpa. It will be nice to have extra hands around :-) I'm hoping Nate goes skiing with his dad on Friday but that's still up in the air. We also have our twins group Spring Social on Saturday, that should be a lot of fun, even the Easter Bunny will be there!! Jon also has a report due on Monday so we have to find time for that as well. Like I said a very busy and fun weekend ahead.