My Physical T-Rex

My husband and I have always been big fans of giving our son the ability to choose from a variety of activities within our budget.  We try to find interesting and creative ways to tie these activities with his passions.  Thanks to his Mimi, Trenton is enrolled in Ti Kwan Do, all year round.  Thanks to his Nana, he participates in athletic activities (soccer, basketball), through their church. We are members of both the Science Museum of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma City Zoo.  We are enrolled in art classes, this summer, at the The Oklahoma City Museum of Art. We support his interest in the Chinese language using youtube.com, and other free resources available online, while continuing to encourage him to dabble in Spanish, free with Duolingo.  We also have opened the world of programming with free resources from CODE, and Hopscotch, and not so free resources like Tynker.

This August, I was hoping to have him start learning to play the piano with our neighbor across the street, and up until last night, piano lessons had the green light from Trenton.  Then, my husband showed him a video of...Parkour.  Afterwards, my husband mentions to my son that it looks like they use a lot of moves from gymnastics.  Now, the Rex wants back into gymnastics.  The thing is, we can't realistically afford both, and when given the choice of gymnastics or piano lessons, Trenton, without waver, chooses gymnastics.

He is still very interested in learning how to play the electric guitar.  Knowing this, I looked at my husband and said, "Well, if you are going to encourage his pursuit of parkour, will you promise to buy an electric guitar and work with Trenton 30 min to an hour a week."  He agreed.  They will be using Rocksmith 2014.

So, I guess, I am now the mother of a future black belt, gymnast, parkour training, electric guitar strumming, robot programming (check out Play i, can we say this Christmas!) dinosaur, who wants to be a chemical/biological/civic/mechanical engineer when he grows up.  Oh, and on the weekends, he wants to explore the world.  I am in for a wild ride.  (Sits and tries to clear her mind.)