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Here's some photos from this past week. Obviously this is from Swim class. We start each class in the baby pool for a few minutes and then move to the big pool. Only 5 out of 9 kids showed up this week and I wouldn't be surprised if there were fewer next. Alex is doing great and enjoying it, but a lot of the other kids aren't, 2 boys wont even unclutch from their Moms neck. The class is suppose to be from 6 months to 36 months, but it seems who ever designed it, didn't really take that into account. Last weeks class was on back stroke arm movements, most of the kids wont even go on their backs or know how to kick yet. They also had the kids being dropped from the edge of the pool about 4 feet into the water, Alex did it and didn't really seem to mind, but that can be pretty traumatic for most 16 month olds, which is the average age of the class. But Alex seems to like it, at least so far.



We went up to the mall to go to playland and saw these adorable doggie purses on sale at Penneys. The experts say you should give them a choice at this age, but that didn't work for us. I showed her 3 different kinds, she opened her arms wide and took them all, then proceeded to run thru the clothing racks playing keep away. It took about 15 minutes to get her talked down to one, with much protesting.

Alex had a slight mishap with a piece of chocolate so it was an early bathtime.
Here she is with tools in hand helping me pull out the staples from the floor so we can put down the laminate. She certainly is a big helper.
















Tuesday we skipped storytime (heaven forbid) to meet Clara (one of my volunteers from the zoo) at the Butterfly house (whose gift shop is run by another old zoo acquaintance) . We had a wonderful time catching up and enjoying the beauty of the butterfly house. Alex had so many butterflies and pretty flowers to point and squeal at. We rode the carousel which at first she wasn't too sure of, but by the time it was over she wanted to go again. We went out for lunch and then came back to the park and hit the playground. Here's Alex showing Clara how high she can swing. She went down for a nap very quickly after all that.
Today was our last day in level 3 at Gymboree, she'll be moving up to the next age group next week. It'll be nice to have a change. In one more month, we'll be able to take some of their art classes which should be fun.