Gerry the gymnast

We've been watching a lot of the Beijing Olympics over the weekend. This is rare for us as the TV is very rarely switched on during daylight hours - we normally don't allow Gerry to watch TV as we really don't want him addicted to it at too early an age. However, seeing as the Olympics is just sport, we decided it would be okay for Gerry to watch with us (or did we just use this as an excuse to justify us watching the olympics?).

Anyway, we were watching the gymnastics, in particular the Floor Exercises event. Gerry seems to really like watching the Floor Exercises as he was glued to the sofa during most of the show. This is actually quite rare for Gerry as he likes to run around a lot (he is very active which is probably why he is quite skinny despite being able to eat a lot). After a while though, he got off the sofa and I started to think that he had lost interest in the gymnastics.

Not quite.

The reason he didn't want to watch anymore was because he wanted to join in! A section of our living room floor has been covered with plastic floormats. Gerry goes up to one corner. Then he starts running across the mat until he reaches the middle at which point he starts doing rolls on the mat! After doing a couple of rolls until he reaches the corner, he gets up and then repeats the process - except this time, heading back to the original corner.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get any pictures or videos of this - something I will probably regret for the rest of my life considering how cute he was.