because saturday was a holiday we resceduled our regular gymnastics class to monday morning. and you know what? it SUCKED. it was full of BABIES!! mia walked in ready to jump and play and run amok with the other toddlers and found herself the oldest in a large group of babies (the oldest other kid was only 15 months old and though it's a class for walkers-3yo there's usually a couple kids of each age group). her smile faded quickly. what was she supposed to do with all these babies?! where were her friends?!
at first she found she could play around the babies. sure, they couldn't really run or climb but they also weren't going to slow her down on the baby/toddler gauntlet! but the tumble track and trampoline were a different story. they kept falling down. they couldn't hop. they were in her way.
but at least she could count on the parachute, right? no. all those babies wanted to be held by their moms. which left no one to lift the parachute up and down. at one point mia just got up and walked away to play on her own.
it's funny, being the mom of an active toddler, how quickly i forgot about the younger toddler stage. suddenly mia was the "big kid" in the group - it was weird. she was patient with them - but there was a lot of sighing. i can only imagine that this is what it's going to be like at home for the next couple years.
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