Little Tumblers

Corrine and I are in a Mom and Me tots class that has both dance and tumbling in it. The first part is dance, and we sing and dance to songs. They even practice some very elemental dance moves. Corrine really loves the dance and freeze song.

For the dance and freeze song, they get to put on sparkly skirts. Here is Corrine having her own little Marilyn Monroe experience.

For another song, they get to hold a teddy bear or little doll and throw it in the air, and balance it on their heads while they walk on tippy toes. Corrine does tippy toes really well!

Then for the second part, we go to the tumbling room and run and tumble! Here she is walking on the balance beam.


Here she is doing a somersault. She has also gotten brave enough to to back bends.



For some reason, she loves running up and down this thing. It is spongy and bouncy, maybe that's why. But she says "Run with me, Mommy!" and then we run up and down it over and over. They also have a big tramp that is her favorite.

Ava has taken clogging for the last two years, and it wasn't her favorite thing to do. We have found her thing in tumbling, though! She can't wait to go and gets so excited on Wednesdays!

Going into a back bend.

Perfecting her cartwheel. When I watch this class, I am amazed that there isn't constant banging of heads together and that the poor teacher isn't clocked on a regular basis. There are hands and feet and legs flying all over the place! Ava is of course the littlest in her class, although she isn't the youngest.

She absolutely loves this, so this is what we will keep her in. The older girls are also taking things, Payden is doing tumbling and Michaela is in hip hop. Neither one loves it. They both miss clogging very much, so they will probably go back to that next year. I can't find my pics of the older girls, when I do I will post some of them.