Friday, November 28, 2008

Swimming and other exercises for my Rugrat

My friend Beata and I are planning on weekly things for our rugrats like swimming and also a baby gym class. Well we went swimming once so far, this week we couldn't go because Sara is ill with a bad cough. Lucas didn't like last time's swimming too much. He didn't know what to think about it, but I hope that with time he will love it. He was barely moving his arms or legs and just looking out of the window for birds. (hahah). They have only one pool there and it's too deep for him to stand. So I am holding him the whole time. But yeah, at least for the winter time we plan on going there weekly now.

We are also looking for a baby gym class. We have that thing in Germany that is called Mutter-Kind Turnen (basically gymnastics for the mother and the kid). Most of them start for kids around one and a half years, but some also for kids that walk well. We went to one this week. It was alright, but not what we expected. It was overcrowded with mommies and their kids. They all seemed to be 2 years and up, so ours were the youngest. It began with everyone sitting in a big circle and we were singing a song and one of the kids had to run around the circle with the mommie when their name was mentioned. That was funny. But then after the song the 'teacher' said that everyone is just doing whatever they want. We were like !?!? She had some things build up for the kids to climb on and do exercises. But she never showed us anything or even asked us how we like it or whatsoever. It just wasn't what we expected. We would like to go somehwere, where the teacher shows us different things to do with the kids and things we all do together in a group... Lucas had a blast of course with all these kids running around. He was running around the whole time, jumping into the crowd. I always had to run after him, because kids were jumping off to a mattress and he would climb on the mattress and be in the way. He was chasing after balls and by bedtime he fell alseep immediately.
Sara even hurt herself when falling off the mattress and against a wooden wall with wood bricks. She scraped her forehead and screamed real loud. It was poorly secured I would say, but that's not the point. The teacher didn't even look for her or ask what was wrong.
It would cost 6 Euros a month, which isn't bad, but she said that we can only pay it for three months in advance. Well Beata and I agreed to look for another group and see what else is offered. We still have some time I guess, since our kids are still young.

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