Our Little Gymnast

Marley at the Fun Meet
Super Bowl Sunday
(Who picked that day for a gymnastics meet?)

Marley has been taking a weekly gymnastics class for almost two years now. Well, today she had her first practice on the Mighty Mites team. It is for s 5-7 years old and they practice two times per week for 2 1/2 hours at a time. She had a little tryout a few weeks ago and her coach thought she was ready to try it. Paul and I went back and forth about whether to do it; it is more money and 5 hours a week of practice, but she had really gone as far as she could in the class she was in. Also, because she is in a special multi-age program at school, she doesn't have any homework until 4th grade. The extra hours of practice won't be in addition to homework. That's a good thing!

Today's practice went well. She cooperated and tried everything they asked her to do from headstands to left-footed cartwheels. I could see that she is definitely in with some girls with some "skills" as Napolean Dynamite might say. I'm excited to see how she develops over the new few weeks.