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I was thinking of joining the local Y because of the pool and doing free swim on the weekends, but still undecided.

We're doing only one activity per season. After swim finishes (several seasons), she will go to fancy art school lessons (first season) until November! Just a fun enrichment activity. Super frivolous. Thinking about soccer (several seasons) in the winter. Our weather is usually hot so it's nice and cool in the winter. Some kind of music/dance (first season) class in the spring and science camp (second season) in the summer. Oh and she is going to a weekly kids church (0 seasons) starting in Sept. so I guess that will be 2 activities. We also have season passes for youth theater that runs throughout the whole year.

Soccer and the local mini running race series for kids. This is the second time for soccer and first for running.

We are considering guitar lessons for DS. He also starts elementary this fall so I'm curious to see if anything is offered after school. Probably nothing for DD. She's 2.5 and already in FT daycare and moving up to the big class and they do a lot, so I don't think she needs any extras.

@mamabolt: LO is running her first race this month! It's going to be super duper short! Can't wait.

I'm torn. DD1 is doing her first year of full day, every day school (pre-k), and I feel like additional activities might be too much. I wish she could do ballet again, but we will see. She'll do special classes like gymnastics, yoga, dance, and cooking as part of her school day.

DD2 will do two mornings of a drop-off twos program, and a mommy and me class (TBD).

I don't know yet. The last day of summer soccer they were totally into it. The rest of the season was like baby torture. I'm not sure if it's worth trying again so soon. We might just stick with our signing classes and story times!

We will try to do piano, tennis and swim but that might be a bit ambitious.

I was just thinking about this today. I'm considering tennis but it will depend on time of day.

Soccer and Ballet. She asked for both so I said sure.

Gymnastics on Sat mornings. I asked her if she wanted to do ballet at day care and she said no.

We do Kindermusik classes once a week and story time at the library.

We are waiting to hear back from a couple preschools (her birthday is after the cutoff so we are last in the list). If she gets in, we won't do anything. If she doesn't, we will do a storytime and either art/gymnastics combo, tball, or ballet depending on what days they are offered.

DS will be doing soccer this fall, and possibly a mixed sports class.

We try out lots of things, I really try to expose my oldest to many different experiences because of his autism. I try to limit us to no more than 3 activites a week because it gets too exhausting even just working part time, especially with school starting up again and other therapy sessions like speech and doctor's visits.

We do swim lessons year round for both boys at a family run swim school. We belong to the Y and do their Itty Bitty Sports sporadically as it fits into our schedule, our youngest will start this soon too.

We tried Kindermusik this summer at the community center and it was a good experience to try, but I didn't love it. The teacher was very zen and didn't allow us to correct the kids and tell them to sit or give up instruments if they didn't want to.

We just started a different music class with a music therapy group through our community center and I love it! The instructor was magical and both boys paid super close attention to her. I plan on continuing these indefinitely since my oldest needs music therapy and this is the only affordable option for us right now.

My oldest just started hockey, it was a stressful start, but getting much better and is really good for both of us- motor planning and doing something challenging for him, and me giving up some control and letting him struggle a bit. Today was our third class and it was finally a smashing success! Our local pro team does a free 4 week hockey trial for 4-8 year olds to see if they like it before investing in equipment. We're going to start a parent/kid class in hockey this fall for my oldest and pull my husband and youngest into it during the winter session.

We've done swimming every week for a year now, right now the almost 3yo is in the "advanced" daddy and me class, and the almost 5yo does private. Also signed 5yo up for a running program and just decided to do another season of soccer - he's in a summer program now and really starting to like it. I'm hoping it won't be too much with kindergarten starting too!

@lemondrop: I those itty bitty hockey pics! Looks so fun.

He'll be 2 next month and will do a pre-preschool drop off 2 days a week. I'd like to sign him up for some kind of a soccer or sports class one day and something else another day, probably a gym type class.

My mom just signed my daughter up for swim classes. She's going to keep her out of daycare one day a week and take her. I think when the weather gets cold we'll also sign her up for gymnastics on the weekends. It will be the first for both.

We're debating between swimming, skating and gymnastics. She starts full day kindergarten in September so I don't want too overload her (she's only 3.5) but she's been quite brave in the water this summer so I don't want to lose that momentum and is like to try to take advantage and get her actually swimming!