Sometimes Mr. CP is a substitute teacher for children's wu shu classes a couple times during the summer when the coaches travel to China. The youngest kids are 5 years old and they learn how to kick and punch and study some forms. We brought Baby CP along this year so he could run around a little and see what the older kids are doing. He really embraced it and would follow along pretty well for about 20 or 30 minutes before losing interest. He would try to do all the stretches and some of the line kicking and punching.
The older kids loved watching him and talking to him and he really enjoyed all of the attention. One extra unexpected bonus from bringing him to class was that some older kids (maybe around 7 years old) decided they'd teach him the concept of addition by adding some fingers on one hand with another hand. He picked it up right away and now he asks me about it every now and then - 2 fingers on one hand + 2 fingers on the other = 4 total. It reminds me of when I used to teach my younger brother how to add decimals a couple years before he would have learned them in school. Little kids love learning from older kids.
I also overheard one very ambitious child asking Baby CP he knew multiplication...which was very quickly poopoo-ed by another one - "If he doesn't know addition, he OBVIOUSLY doesn't know multiplication yet!") Funny!
Saving the best for last, here is a short video of Baby CP showing off some dance moves while we were watching So You Think You Can Dance. His teachers are always telling me about how they are impressed with his dance moves. Today, was the first day he didn't cry when I dropped him off at school.
