Coloring and Soccer "Class"

I signed Ethan up for two classes through our local parks department, one is coloring (learning colors and shapes and just getting to play around with coloring lots of pictures) and the other is Lil' Kickers soccer. He started both this week (coloring-Tuesday and soccer-Wednesday). I think that he really enjoyed both of them!
The coloring class was advertised as being an hour long for kids 1-3 yrs old. I wasn't sure how the teacher would keep these kids' attention for that long. It turned out to be closer to 40 minutes or so, and even then many of the kids were up running all around the room rather than sitting at the tables (as I'd expect!) Ethan was really interested in coloring for quite awhile and stayed at the table the whole time. It's funny because, no matter how many times Dan and I have tried to teach him colors, he still says that everything is blue. He can say green, yellow, and orange, but he doesn't yet know what that really means. Hopefully this class will help him understand what the colors are. It's funny because he's been super-interested in letters and has known all of his capital letters for months, but he hasn't shown much interest in colors yet. The teacher passed out pictures of several items to color, one of which was a ruler. She held it up for the kids first and asked if anyone knew what it was. She said that she figured none of them would since only big kids use rulers. Ethan looked up and clearly said "ruler"! How strange!?! Dan and I have never told him nor shown him what a ruler is, so we have no idea where he got that from. That was a surprise!
Ethan's soccer class is supposed to meet outside at a local park, but since we have been getting a deluge of rain here, it was moved inside to an indoor soccer arena. I was surprised to find that the indoor fields have real grass! There are 15 kids who are 18 months to 2 1/2 yrs in his class. The instructor looked to be about a sophomore or junior in college, and he was fantastic with the kids!! They played red light/green light, ran around kicking real soccer balls along with these fun squishy balls, built towers out of soccer cones and kicked balls at them to knock them down, the instructor blew bubbles and the kids chased them around breaking them with their hands and feet, and each kid got high fives and stamps from the instructor at the end. Ethan had a blast! He loves kicking balls around our house, and while in Oklahoma City I found a couple of small soccer balls in Target's clearance section, so he now has real soccer balls to play with. I'll try to remember to take some pics at next week's class because it's so cute to see all of these toddlers running around with like 50 soccer and squishy balls all over the place.