Kid’s Club

Today I finally decided to get back to the gym for the first time in over a year. Of course, I was doing prenatal and postnatal yoga up until a few months ago, but my 24 Hour Fitness membership had gone unused for longer than I care to think about (luckily I only pay $7/month).

24 Hour Fitness has a Kid’s Club that takes kiddos over 6-months old, and when I was pregnant I imagined I’d be dropping her off all the time! Four months ago I didn’t think Aurora was ready, and it turns out that now, at 10-months old, Aurora’s still not ready. At first she just sat and watched what was going on. I took a quick picture just before leaving her, and I was fairly certain she’d be playing and having a good time in no time…

Nope. At daycare they’ve told me that Aurora’s wary of strangers and just gets attached to her main teachers. I guess it’s no surprise that she didn’t like being left with the Kid’s Club staff. There were older kids running around all over the place, and after the 1-year old in the photo left, Aurora was by far the youngest one there and was probably a little scared. They came and got me halfway through my yoga class, and even I couldn't console her. She cried all the way out of the gym, into the car, until we started driving. Then suddenly she started making happy noises again, and had a fine afternoon!

I don’t know what I was really expecting. Aurora is usually happy and playful. She's going through this really cute phase where she likes to grab a book and sit herself in my lap, then help turn the pages as I read. Her afternoon daycare teacher told me she did that at daycare the other day too and she’d never had a baby do that before!

No, I didn’t expect she’d do that at 24 Hour Fitness, but I did hope she’d find something fun to distract her for a good hour and a half. Oh well… I do think we’ll try again in a few weeks. It felt good to workout again.