Jump and Shout!

What an adorable little close up! I was shooting for a picture of him going up the steps toward the slide but he turned around and leaped at me right as I was snapping it!

I've been so behind on posting lately because our computer is so darn slow for some reason. Recently it's been taking me over an hour to create a small post. On top of that, Chase has been teething again. He's got three or four molars coming in at the same time which means he's been grouchy and clingy lately. I teach a class on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and I usually leave Chase in the Kidz Club. He usually loves it, the place is chalk full of toys, and he usually has one or two attendants giving him their undivided attention the entire time he's there. Well when I dropped him off on Tuesday he freaked out when he saw me leaving so I came back and played with a few toys with him to get him a little more comfortable one of the girls gave him a fruit juice pop and I thought he was good to go so I snuck out and watched him from behind the door to make sure he would be ok. After a couple seconds, I saw him turn around with and look around with a small frown that progressively got larger and turned into a full out scream! I took him with me to the studio and my supervisor's daughter came down to the studio and watched him crawl around the floor, so I could teach my class. I would set up the spring board for the vault and Chase would be over there in a second crawling all over it! I could go on, but needless to say it was a mess.

One of my gymnasts, Melissa, doing handstand walks

Three of the crazy girls I teach (front) Claire, (back left to right) Robyn, and Melissa

Work has been going really well since I came back. I really enjoy everyone I work with (usually) and I am starting to get some of my skills back which is nice when I want to show my gymnasts what I'm trying to tell them to do. My supervisor has been out of work for the past couple weeks with tendonitis and she called me the other day and told me that if it doesn't get better or if something were to happen where she can't work anymore she would like to start training me to take over the program. I was shocked to say the least, seeing as there's a girl who has been working there longer than me who has worked at numerous private gyms and ended her gymnastics career at level 10 (really high) when she broke her neck doing a double full. Even after her injury she has been able to pick up right where she left off and she is an amazing gymnast. So you can see my surprise that I would be the first choice candidate over her. As honored as I was, I respectfully declined the position due to a number of reasons. It has been a wonderful job for me to have right now though, and I'm grateful to have it for the time being.

Chase trying to eat a ball at the jump zone, he was in heaven!

Chase and I about to go down the huge marshmallowey slide, even I enjoyed this a lot! I told Kyle it reminded me of those parachute slides that they put outside of airplanes for emergency landings. It was pretty cool!

Chase and I went to a place called Jump and Shout today with a few ladies in the ward and their children. I was a little worried because I didn't know how much Chase would enjoy it and I wanted to get our money's worth, he absolutely loved it though. I was able to take him on a bunch of the jump toys and play with him and he had a huge smile plastered on his face the entire time. We ended up staying for 2 hours! He came home a very exhausted, and happy little boy. Anyhow, here are some pictures...