Charlie = Class Clown!

I went into the boys' school yesterday and taught yoga. Charlie was in my first class and he is just too much. He and his little buddy James sat next to each other and could not shut up! The minute I asked the group if they knew how we should breathe during yoga, Charlie was bouncing up and down off his matt yelling, "Oooo! Oooo! I know! I know!"

I decided to nip this in the bud, so I told the class, "I am going to call on my son for this first question, but then I won't call on him the rest of class. He gets to answer the first question and then he is done, OK?" They all seemed to think this was quite reasonable.

So I said, "OK Charles, how do we breathe during yoga?"

And he leapt up and yelled, "LIKE THIS!" And he proceeded to run full force around the room until he crashed into a wall and fell to the ground.

Amidst the kids' shocked laughter, I calmly stated, "No, that is not how we breathe, we actually breathe in and out our noses," and continued on with class.

During the remainder of class, Charlie periodically yelled, "HEY GUYS WATCH THIS!" He would then get in a yoga pose and hold it for a minute before crashing to the floor face first.

I had such a great time teaching the kids. And Charlie wasn't too distracting - he was kind of funny. But I did find it a bit disturbing that tiny little Charlie is apparently a bizarre reincarnation of Chris Farley...