everyone has fun at music class

Joaquin and I attend a music class once a week. I found it when googling "mom and baby classes Indianapolis." We had just finished swimming lessons (I'm planning on doing that again, soon), and needed a new activity to keep us involved in the world outside of our backyard.
After the first class I wondered if I hadn't made this purchase in haste. We attend baby story hour at the library once a week as well, and there is singing and stories and socializing, for free! I've decided over time that it is worth it. The music class has more structure to it. We received a companion CD and are expected to learn the songs for maximum participation. You get to know all the names of the kids in class, right from the beginning. Our instructor, Ms. Sheryl, gives all of the kids one on one attention by singing a pattern to them as they sit on her lap...and Joaquin gobbles it up! We sing, we dance, we play instruments.
Last week a little girl who looks to be about 3 came in wearing a bright pink tulle skirt. She sat in a circle with the rest of us for about 5 minutes and then went running around the room, round and round and round. Joaquin watched her with great interest. He began to spin around on his butt so he could watch her every move. As she ran by him he sat up as tall as possible and held out his little hand to her as if to say, "take me with you, fairy princess." Stuff like this is what it's all about. Seriously. So cute.
I may have even made a new friend at The Music Playhouse. The more I stay home with my baby, the more I realize I need some girlfriends. Recently, one of my mom's friends found me on facebook and told me, "the first time I met your mom she was wearing pink rollers in her hair and was pulling you and your brother in a wagon. She looked at me and said ' I prayed that God would send me a best friend, and you are it!'" I think about that all the time. I know exactly how Mom felt.
I'm a pretty shy person when it comes to making new friends, so I am very thankful that this music class mom approached me. When asked where she got her baby's pants, she replied, "I made them." Ding! Ding! Ding! I want to make baby pants! We exchanged phone numbers and will attempt a baby in the park day very soon.
Joaquin loves music class and I do to. The class is at the groovy Riviera Club that sits on the white river. So pretty.