Dylan signed up for another session of art at the Tannery Arts Center–this time, Animal Art. Some days, I’m able to sneak away for a short run or do another hour of work before I get the girls; on other days, I go get them and they go nuts on the little play structure while we wait for Dylan to finish. Sometimes, by this time (4-5pm), Chloe is rampin’ up her grumpy.
Cameron, the seasoned non-napper, is all smiles. She uses whatever bars she can find to demo all of her new tricks to me. Now, she’s hanging from her knees with no hands. I can barely watch, especially when she starts to swing herself (yikes! A vision of her falling right on her head flashed briefly through my mind!)! She does bars every day at school and has blisters to show for it…and muscles, too!
She is definitely inspiring Dylan to challenge himself more (in fact, today, he had me write out a bunch of “bar challenges” on a pad of post-it’s — these included “hang from the bar for 15 secs…30 secs, 45 secs, 1 minute). Climb half-way up; Climb all the way up. Each “challenge” had a checkbox below it that he could check off). I hope he succeeds!!
Animal art is now over, so the teacher hosted an “artist’s reception” and we got to see Dylan’s artwork for pretty much the first time! I was very impressed. He loves art and I like the teacher so I’m considering doing some drop-in classes until school gets out, but getting him to art does involve leaving work early which is not always convenient!
