Well, Nathan started gymnastics last week and he seems to enjoy it thoroughly. A bunch of our friends who have kids Nathans age also joined, which makes it more fun for the kids. It starts off as a free-for-all and the children run around sampling all of the various apparatuses. By far Nathans favourite is the trampoline. After about 15 or so minutes the instructor calls all of the children (and parents) over to the main mat for stretching and warn-up. After warm-up the instructor shows the children the first of three circuits. The kids spend about ten minutes at the first circuit and then we all move on to the next, again the instructor shows them how it's done. The idea of the circuits is that each gets progressively harder so the children can work up to the more advanced apparatuses. The top picture is Nathan during the free-for-all when he discovered the balls, very exciting. The picture on the right is 
Nathan and I on the spring board and the bottom picture is he and I on the trampoline.Next weekend we are off to Canmore to visit with Colin and Jo, Mom and Dad, and Gail and John. Needless to say there will be another post with lots of pictures in the near future.
