Gymboree Day

We are headed back to Melaka right now from KL. Azman, Evan and I drove up this morning so that Evan could attend his Gymboree class. We were initially supposed to come up with Andrew, but his meeting was rescheduled for tomorrow, so we had Azman drive us up instead. We were a bit hesitant about coming to KL because the city is in preparation for their big Merdeka celebration on Friday and there was supposed to be tons of road closures in the city center. Fortunately, the mall where we went didn’t seem to be impacted so we didn’t have any problem outside of the usual bumper-to-bumper KL traffic. Merdeka is Malaysia’s “4th of July”….August 31st marks the anniversary of their independence from the British. This is their 50th anniversary, so there is suppose to be an extra special celebration going on this year. We won’t be attending as I’m sure every Malaysian will be making their way into KL in the next couple of days.
Evan did wonderfully at his class. We attended the level 3 class this time for the first time. Since it is for 10 to 16 month olds, there was a wide range of kids in the class…..some just crawling, some learning to walk and others walking really well. The instructor set up several obstacle courses to have the babies practice crawling and walking. Since we aren’t a crawler, the ones with tunnels to go through posed a problem….so we just skipped those silly tunnels…..who wants to crawl anyhow when you can walk!!! Climbing stairs, walking on beams, sliding down slides and pushing that big tube thing (below) was more his style.