Pollies!

One morning a week, Hope goes to her little Rolly Pollies gym class. She looks forward to going to "pollies" every week, and talks about all that she'll do there - fips (flips), sons (songs), jumps, and of course tamps (stamps).

She likes the pit full of foam blocks, she likes the giant trampoline, she likes the trapeze. She loves the moonbounce, she loves the little car toy, and she loves getting stamps at the end!

Here she's doing a balance beam, practicing her "airplane arms." I have to remind her that airplane arms go straight out, not up, every time!



At the end of the balance beam, she gets to flip through the tunnel and down the wedge mat. She knows to put her hands down and tuck her chin, and she waits for me to do the rest :)



As fun as the gym stuff is, what Hope likes more than anything is the stamps she gets on her hands and feet at the end of each session. I think it's my favorite part too because her eagerness is SO cute.

The teacher invites the kids forward for their stamps. Some kids don't go, some run off to other things, some push and shove to get to the front. Hope does this:



She plops herself down in front of the teacher, assumes the position for getting hands and feet stamped, and waits so patiently. The teacher usually has to stamp the rowdier kids first, so by the time she gets to Hope she's always amused and charmed that she's been waiting there like that for however long. It's a-dor-able.