Exercise Group

Some of you know that each morning I take Gabe to the "studio" at the recreation center.  He gets babysat for an hour while I go work out.  Tuesdays, I babysit.  Gabe has a "best friend" at exercise group named Kallen (pronounced Kay-Lin).  As soon as Kallen gets there every morning, Gabe freaks out.  He does this loud, excited squeal and then crawls really fast in circles until Kallen's mom sets him down. 

Kallen just turned 1, and so it's good for chubby Gabe to have a bigger kid to play with.  They grab each others' faces and take each others' toys and they fall over each other, but neither ever cries.  Their form of playing together means sucking on toys while sitting by each other. 

They are together for, literally, the whole hour.  If one crawls into the garbage can (see pictures below), the other follows suit.  If one stands up next to a ride-along car/truck, the other has to do it too.  In fact, at least once every day, Gabe and Kallen stand up to a car (one behind, and one on the side) and they walk with it, super-duper slowly, across the room.  The one on the side has to do the vine side-step to keep up and sometimes the car tips over, which sends the boys rolling onto the floor.  It is the funniest thing, and I've been meaning to take my camera for weeks.  Well, today, I remembered.  The pictures aren't great, but they demonstrate how the two love to be together.

P.S. Kallen has the CURLIEST hair I have ever seen.  It's so cute!