Gymnastics

This morning at 10:30am, Skylee started gymnastics with her best friend, Lacey. There is only one other girl in the class; her name is Ruth. While parents were not allowed inside, we proudly watched our little gymnasts through the tiny window perform somersaults, balance on the balance beam, compete in a small obstacle course, and try to twist on a high bar.
Skylee has been looking forward to today since a week ago when I enrolled her. Everyday she begs "Is today gymnastics?!?" Finally, today was! She picked out her 'gymnast' outfit a week ago, too, so this morning when I told her to put it on, she knew. :)
She told me yesterday she wants to take gymnastics, swimming, and piano. And I hope to spoil her in the arts! I've already enrolled her for a music class through Gymboree, and am debating between more gymnastics or ballet for the fall. We have plenty of time to decide, though.
Ms. Rebecca, the gymnastic instructor, told us Skylee and Lacey were excellent listeners! I think having a friend with them, is helping the girls to ease into a class-like structure.
Over the past few weeks, Lacey and Skylee have been inseparable. Same with Margina and me! Just about every day we have gotten together whether to relax at the pool, venture to new churches together, play dress up, watch movies..our lists go on and on. And now gymnastics!
After gymnastics, we went to J J Biello park for an hour where Skylee made another friend (Savannah), joined daddy on his lunch break, visited Grammy at school, and finally made it back home to transform my apartment into a gymnastic obstacle course.
Bicycle across the tile, under the table-now-tunnel, spin in the chair three times, somersault on the yoga mats, balance beam across the painters tape (sprawled across the carpet), climb over the pile of pillows, and finish with a few jumps on the bed.
Throughout the course, Skylee excitedly explained everything that she learned in her class this morning, and taught me what to do. ;)
We finished off the evening with the drawing game. Somebody picks a theme, and everybody draws it. Tonight Skylee chose a tree and a flower. Then, she drew a picture of Nana Velva and me with a birthday cake. Happy early birthday, Grandma Velva!



Also, last night we went to Sparkles with Lacey, Margina, and Ryan. Since Skylee got skates for her birthday, she has been anticipating using them. We stayed close to three hours and did everything. We started off skating (Skylee in between Caleb and me) until Skylee was ready for a break; then we arcade-d it up! Skylee and I are ever the arcade junkies...We used 4 tokens and won 33 tickets which we exchanged for smarties and sweet tarts. (and a spider ring!)

Next, pizza break, followed by the playground. Sparkles has an epic playground for kids; I think Skylee would be content living there. After an hour or so of playground, skating, playground, skating, we did our final rounds and headed home. While Skylee gets frustrated after a while of not being able to skate on her own, I see a lot of improvement each time we skate! And more importantly, she has the determination to keep trying. :) Yay, Skylee!!