Yoga Posts

My boy knows yoga! Who knew?! I love that! We were talking at bedtime and he started telling me about these yoga "posts" that he learned at Rec Plus. He taught them to me and asked me if yoga was around when I was I kid. We were doing yoga on the bed and then we moved to the floor so we could balance better. It brings me such pleasure to know that my 6 year old is doing yoga when I'm off at work. I can't even tell you how peaceful this makes me. It's just such a nice surprise!

He kept calling them yoga "posts" though. We're not big on correcting speech around here. I find it absolutely adoreable that he doesn't always know the correct words and I've never felt the need to correct him. But now I have a 6 year old who talks like a baby and is in speech therapy. Some of the other kids used to make fun of him and I know kids can get meaner as they get older so I'm not sure what first grade will bring. This sounded more like a listening issue and not a physically can't say the word speech issue so somewhere in the middle of doing the "turtle post" and the "dog post" and the "flamingo post" I whispered to him that the word was not "post - p.o.s.t" but that it was "pose - p.o.s.e". He said "oh" and Jeff added that he should just think "nose...pose". It worked for a bit and then he went back to calling them posts. We left it at that because teaching your mom yoga posts after bedtime is just so much more interesting than saying the word correctly...and learning yoga posts from your child in his pajamas is way more fun than correcting speech.

We tried bike riding without training wheels today. We took turns running behind or along the side of him helping him to balance. It was exhausting! I don't know how kids learn to ride bikes. I'm thinking we're going to need lots and lots and lots of practice. I'm thinking there is going to be blood and tears involved. I might just have to let Jeff handle it.

We got rid of Kira's high chair last week and got her a booster that attaches to our kitchen chair and has a little tray on the front just like a high chair. It sort of transforms as she grows. I never knew these things existed! I love it! She's also fully strapped in now so there is no more standing up and turning around and rocking the back of the highchair. She's stuck tight nice and safe in this thing. Love it!

Jeff and I celebrated our anniversary this weekend. We've been together for almost 14 years and married for 7 of them. I totally think we should get credit for the entire 13+ years. We went to Cafe 28 and then listened to Michael Monroe at Lake Harriet until it started to rain and they had to stop the show. It was a nice night. We may have to make it a tradition.