Yoga

I've heard of celebrities saying that their exercise consists of running and pilates.  I always think "yeah right."  Then I did pilates...I hurt for a full week.  I realized that those celebrities were probably right. 

The biggest thing about pilates at our house is my mat.  Zoe LOVES my mat.  It's her favorite thing in the entire world.  She's eager to learn yoga and pilates because she wants to use her mat.  They offered a 6 week workshop for kids.

Zoe begged and pleaded to sign up for it.

Every Thursday afternoon for 45 minutes she does yoga.  The smile on her face never fades.  She LOVES it.  She's learned all kinds of poses and each week has to make up one to share with the class. 

There are 5 kids in her class and she's the youngest.  It's adorable to watch her.  She tries so hard to get the moves "just right" and to create one that isn't like one they've learned.  They have cards with poses on them.  One side is a picture of the pose and one side is the written description of the pose.  They each pick one and then have to teach it to the class.

As I watched her yesterday with all her stretches and teaching the other kids, I was so impressed with her poise.  Then someone tooted in the class, which is my worst fear with yoga/pilates.  Honestly, all that stretching and relaxing, those things just happen.  It's quiet in the room and the music is softly playing in the background.  Then BOOM...toot.

After that, she kinda lost her poise because tooting in a room full of people when you didn't mean to is funny. 

After class we asked her if she was the one that tooted because her cheeks turned bright red when it happened.  Her response, "nope, mine was quiet!"