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classes/enrichment activities? (Non-Clicky Poll)
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Do you do any classes with your LO? (Swiming, Gymnastics, Dance, etc.)
If so when did you start and how does your LO like it?
If your LO is too little right now what, if any, do you plan to do?
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Re: classes/enrichment activities? (Non-Clicky Poll)
We do Babies Love Books at the library and play group at a local independent toy store.
I really want to start swim lessons because I think it is so important, but I think we are going to wait for the fall to start that.
Is this like The Little Gym? I've been thinking of signing Evie up for that, but it's kind of pricey. I wish they had a drop in fee.
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There is a place in baltimore county called terrific tots during the week that is a lot cheaper then my gym or gymboree.
Aiden has done FUNdamentals in the summer since he's been 1. We'll do it again this summer, though he'll do the parent free class.
We started swimming lessons after he turned 3. We're taking a break for the summer but he'll start up again in the fall. I highly recommend Kids First for swim lessons.
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I think I'm going to sign Ava up for terrific tots if we don't get into the preschool we want in the fall.
What got me thinking aout this was the fact that we just had DD's parent-teacher conference (Whatever, LOL.) her teacher mentioned that DD LOVES the weekly gymnastics class. I knew that they had a weekly class for the older kids, but I didn't realize that once the kids where in the Infant II room they got to participate. The class takes a break over the summer, so I was thining about trying to find something.
I never thought of the library. The branch near our house is tiny and doesn't do much, but there is a larger branch about 10 minutes away. I need to check them out!
I'm not sure where you live but the city libraries do a program called Mother Goose on Loose--Ava LOVES it. We've been taking her since she was 11 months old and she sings the songs she has learned from there all the time. We used to go to the one downtown (across the street from the Basilica)--it's at 10:15 am on Saturday's. It started to get really crowded though so we stopped going. DH takes her to the one on Harford Rd on Wed mornings.
I plan on taking J to the storytime for infants at the Baltimore County library starting in July. They also offer a baby yoga that I thought about doing. Both are free.I just need to get out of the house, and enjoy being able to do these things before going back to work in August!
Do you mind sharing which branch?
We live in Owings Mills and both the Reisterstown and Pikesville branches have Baby Boosters storytime. The baby yoga is June 15, 10:30am at Pikesville. Here is the link...
https://www.bcpl.info/yolib/yoliprog.html
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I would assume they are very similar, but I've never been to The Little Gym. It's a 45 minute class and they have this 50 foot elevated trampoline, a foam pit, and each class they set up little obstacles for the kids to do to help them learn how to walk up and down an incline, step deliberately (like from square to square), etc. most of the kids don't do exactly what they are supposed to, but they all have a blast and at the very end they blow up a moon bounce with a slide and they all love that. I know Rollie Pollies has "open gym" times scheduled where you can just drop in, pay a small fee and play for like an hour, but none of them were when either of us could take him before we signed up for the class.
We do baby gym class at Hoppin Tots off of Falls Rd. We love it!
The prices were much more reasonable than some of the larger chain gyms, IMO.
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Annabelle is 5.5 months old. We started Mommy & Me swim classes a couple weeks ago, which she really seems to enjoy.
We've also been going to the local library for baby sign language classes and story time.
I'm looking for more things to get her involved in, but it's hard finding activities around my area for such a young baby.
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We go to Music Together at Music Together of Charm City. I believe there are other local franchises though. I wasn't sure how I felt about bringing her to music class, but it has been a terrific experience. Ada loves it.
I want to take swim lessons with her, but am going to wait until the fall. The pool we go to in the summer doesn't allow diapers in the big pool. I decided that going to swim classes in a big pool, and then not being allowed in the big pool during the summer was setting us up for a battle.
https://www.musictogethercharmcity.com/
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https://www.musictogether.com/main.aspx?form=ClassLocator2&adr=&zip=&rds=&isZipSearch=False&isMilesRdx=False
Kids First Swim School in Finksburg (takes less than 15 minutes to get there from Eldersburg). It's $90 for a 6-wk session. They take them as early as 3 months old there (at the Y you have to wait till they're 6 months, I think. I got the pedi's okay before registering). We both really enjoy it! I do wish it had some kind of infant CPR or drowning-related lesson included though.