Corral

Today I learned the Spanish word for playpen is corral. Corralling horses I guess is like corralling kids. :) Stephen likes his where he plays with his toys and practices trying to crawl. Yesterday he was able to get into child's pose for yoga. (knees to chest, while lying down on stomach). He's been doing upward facing dog quite well for the past couple of weeks. Now, I think he needs to learn how to get into downward facing dog or at least cat pose in order to actually crawl. In a college movement class, we did movement exercises where our teacher encouraged us to experiment, to be like a child. She said, " as we age, we don't experiment with movement as we do as a child, and maybe our joints don't let us do that after a while." I never really thought about the sun salutation series in yoga as mimicking how a child learns to crawl, but it is pretty close.