For Sophie's 4th birthday she got a semester of gymnastics. There's a program through WVU gymnastics program that is fairly inexpensive and nothing too major. Perfect for a 4 year old. So, she started gymnastics on Monday nights with her friend, Addie.
We'll just say that Sophie is not totally aware of her body and leave it at that. Her instructors had to do EVERYTHING for her. Turn her over to do a somersault. Help her do the correct stretches. Balance her on the balance beam. Flip her over the uneven bars. Everything.
But sometime around Thanksgiving, something switched (as my kids have the habit of doing at just about everything) and she started to get the hang of things.
At the beginning of the semester she cried through the entire thing. But by the end she really loved it.
Her favorite things being the trampoline and the foam pit.
By the end she was skipping, doing somersaults and even doing a split. I'm impressed!
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