Gymnastics

Rachel and Annie started gymnastics in January. Rachel was ready to try something besides dance, but I was still going to sign Annie up for dance since she'd been looking forward to it for so long. But when we took Rachel to her first class, after which I was planning on driving over to the dance studio to register Annie, Annie spent the whole time saying, "I want to do gymnastics." "Can I do that?" "It's time for my gymnastics class." So I signed her up for gymnastics instead. They both are really enjoying themselves. Ryan likes going to gymnastics, too, though thankfully he just associates gymnastics with a play room with toys they keep to occupy siblings. Whenever we're driving anywhere and he sees a building that looks like the gym he'll shout out, "Ryan's 'nastics!" I've thought about taking him and Annie to open gym where they can just play on the equipment for an hour or two, but haven't done it yet. I know he'd love it, but I'm afraid that after that he wouldn't be content with just playing with the toys in the playroom. He'd want to go jump in the pit full of foam blocks every time.

Both girls are enjoying themselves and getting their climbing and balancing and jumping and monkeying energies channeled well. Here's Annie waiting for her turn to jump to the bar:

Here's a video of Rachel on the low bar:

And here's one of Annie on the bars: