Gym Time

Our friend Beckett celebrated his 2nd birthday at The Little Gym, which is a local kids gym franchise that Michael used to play at in his youth. Just a couple months ago, we were watching home movies of him running around, climbing on mats and riding a mini zip line with his dad's help, all the while a perma-smile affixed on his face. As you can imagine, we were pretty excited to visit with Harrison in tow.

Other than a couple little babies hanging out in car seat carriers, Harrison was the smallest of the group of about 15 kids, but that did not stop him from having a good time. Whenever he enters a place he has never been, especially if there are people he does not know, he will stand stock still and just look around for as long as 10 minutes. It's as if he is doing recon... he needs to know just what he is walking into. Once we got through this "warming up" period he really perked up. He seemed to enjoy this hoola hoop activity, in which we used the hoop to pretend we were cars, trains and planes.

The had a large colorful parachute witha a variety of activities; kids sat in the middle while the adults pulled the edges up and down to make it billow all around them, kids got underneath it while adults pulled it up and let it float down over them, etc. Below, Harrison is not yet on the parachute but it is in the bakground. The second photo, he sat down too close to the edge so when dad picked up the 'chute, he tumbled over and started scooting towards the middle with the other kiddos.

I forgot to charge the camera battery so we only got half of the play time on camera. We did take some video, but I need to upload that (don't hold your breath... I'll post it eventually though).