BYOB Yoga

That would be Bring Your Own Baby. I scored a 2 classes for the price of 1 deal at Blooma, a local yoga studio. I wish I had known about this place 2 years ago. They have tons of classes for pregnant women and then classes for moms and babies starting at 6 weeks old. Penelope and I had a great time! She smiled and giggled through the whole hour. Since the class is specifically for crawlers with short attention spans the instructor puts a toy box in the middle of the room. The class was a good mix of singing songs and doing fun stuff with baby as well as a real workout for mommy. Plus, for some of the poses we used baby as weight resistance. Phew! I'm going to feel it in my arms tomorrow. By the last few repetitions of raising Penny like an airplane, I was a little envious of the mom with the teeny 11 month old. I mean like 10th percentile teeny. Her mom said she is still wearing 0-3 month clothes. Cute little peanut! Penelope looked huge, and according to my triceps, is pretty big. And here's the crazy thing...that little peanut was walking everywhere. The instructor made me feel better though. Her baby crawled at 12 months and walked close to 17 months. All in their own time. Anyways, back to the class, Penelope went to the toy box for a short while. She found 2 books and crawled over to the instructor and other mom to show them the pictures. (Her teachers at school says she tries to "read" to all the kids and adults. I have this internal heart melting awwww every time I see her do this). After a few minutes with the toys and books she came over and crawled into my lap as I was stretching. This intrigued the other little girl and all of a sudden I was a living jungle gym. So much fun.
The best thing is that they have classes on the weekend. I'm going to try to take Penny to as many Sunday classes as I can. I think this class allows babies up to 18 months. My arms will be pretty amazing!