Tumble Tot

Yesterday, Julia had her first Tumble Tot class. This is her first real structured activity. She was excited about jumping and bouncing and running and laying down. (I have no idea why she thought there'd be laying down.) She really wanted to see her teacher.

Evan had the day off, so he got to be the participating parent. Julia was most timid at first.
This little 3 year old boy's name was Ethan. Yep. He was there to make sure I missed my own Ethan.
Evan had to help Julia participate at first.. She didn't want to warm up.
But, then she was excited to play along.




She really liked the music and yelled out, "I wanna dance!" and ran around dancing for a good 5 minutes all by herself.
After warm up, it was time for some activities with hula hoops and bean bags and balancing blocks.
There was a tunnel too. Julia really wanted to go in it...

but she said she was too big and then laid down. Just like she said she would.

After the activities, it was mat time.
The kids were supposed to crab walk. Julia just couldn't seem to get the concept.

So, she did her own thing.

Somersault time!


She was not a head stand fan.
Then, to close out the class, it was time for parachute fun.


Julia ran for the lost popcorn balls as soon as they left the parachute. She was kind of a hoarder.
She loved it!
Until one of the handles hit her hand and then she was kind of over the whole parachute thing.
Julia loved the class. And, even though it's an hour long and she was kind of done after 40 minutes and left the class bawling, she really had a lot of fun. When Elisabeth asked her how her tumbling class was, Julia told her all about it in her Julia-talk. Then she told Elisabeth, "I say, 'Bye teacher! I go home now!!'" Which is not true because she was throwing a fit when we left, but at least she thinks she left in a positive way. :)

Here's a video of her giving up on the bean bag thing and just dancing her little heart away: