Kindermusik & Swimming!

We now have kindermusik on Tuesdays for the summer session. And as a perk Emily and her two boys (Ethan-almost 4, Bennett-2) get to join us! She is trying to ready Ethan for pre-school and what better way then to get him into a room with a bunch of other kids where he has to listen and follow directions! He is doing excellent with this! Kezzie is also enjoying it. Not as much as the winter session we were in previously but still likes the activities. She is very shy when it comes to pretending in front of others and there is a lot more of it in this class. Since Austin would be a huge distraction to Ethan, I make sure he is elsewhere for the duration of the class. This week I had it lined up for him to go to his old sitters house (Nancy) whom has an underground pool! She arranged to have some of the other kids that were in daycare during his time to come and swim with him, so he had a great time. Once kindermusik was over the girls and I then got our suits on and got in the pool too! It was so much fun and a perfect hot sunny day too!

'Music Cass'

Here we are at a couple different weeks of Kindermusik or 'music cass' as Kezzie calls it. We love it so much. Here is Kezzie and Adah in their sled we pulled around during one of the songs about going through the city. I think this was our last week 'we are going to the city'. Next time we will have a new theme. That bottom left picture is of the kids getting stamps. I have mentioned before what a neat thing this is for Kezzie. She shows them off the whole rest of the day!

Kindermusik!

Last week we tried out a class in Cedar Falls (at Gallagher) called Kindermusik. You can check it out for free and then join if there is room in the class. It just so happened that somebody from the class I tried had to switch to a night class so there was room for us to join. The class meets on Wednesdays and our class is called 'Family Time'. Keziah has so much fun and I think it is great for her to be around other kids. Adah enjoys it too and will even more as she gets older. When we get there we take our shoes and coats off and sit in a circle on the floor. We sing a hello song that allows each child a chance in the spotlight. When it's their turn to have their name sung in the song then they get to choose an action for all the kids to follow along with (ie. jumping, spinning, clapping, bouncing, etc.) Kezzie isn't warmed up enough at this point yet to take advantage of it but did a little spinning this week. Adah usually just bounces on my lap! After this there are a variety of things we do. There are fun squishy colorful balls that the kids play with, there are hula hoops, and a lot of fun musical insturments the teacher incorporates throughout our time. We work on fine motor skills and things like that. It is teaching Kezzie how to listen to an instructor and follow directions. And it is teaching her that music is fun...something she already discovered since we listen and dance at home all the time. At the end of class the teacher turns on the bubble blower and passes out a music note stamp for their hand. Seriously, this is the highlight for Keziah. She LOVES her stamp she gets and talks about it the rest of the week (and forget washing her hands until bath night!) The two times I have been there we have been 'Going to the City' and Keziah talks aobut that a lot too throughout the week. This week Adah was awake the whole time so she got to participate with colorful scarves and the teacher showed me how to roll her on her belly on one of the therapy balls and she LOVED it! It's a little pricey but when you figure how many weeks it lasts and how much Kezzie is learning, it's really worth it.

I was introduced to it by another New Hampton stay at home mom. Thank-you Jill! I love it and I'm sure I will be sharing many more pictures and stories in the future.