Tough Kids Class

Last week Madden finally started his Tough Kids Class.

He's been looking forward to this for MONTHS!

Its basically like a kids version of "boot camp"

Its once a week for one hour for 10 weeks.

The teacher has all kinds of obstacles set up throughout her front yard, her backyard and her garage.

Besides the fact that I thought the class sounded like fun, I thought it would be good for Madden because he is kind of a sensitive kid and not super adventurous or brave.

(which is basically a nice way of saying he can kind of be a wuss sometimes)

But I was so proud of how he did on his first day!

There were some kids who cried or who refused to do some of the things the teacher was asking them to do, but Madden tried everything and never once cried or complained or said it was too scary.

She even had them walk on a balance beam across her hot tub!

I could tell Madden was a little nervous about that one, (to be honest, I was even kinda nervous about that one!) but he still did it!

And then every time he completed a task, he'd get a huge smile on his face and look at me, like "Mom!  I DID it!!" 

At the very end, she introduced them to the zipline...she had a shorter, slower, lower-to-the-ground one and then a bigger faster one.

At first Madden said he didn't want to do the big one, but I told him to just try it once and he did and LOVED it!

He wanted to go on it over and over!

And of course he wanted me to catch it on video so he could show his dad what a "tough kid" he is :)