Our Little Gymnast

Sis has been nervous about gymnastics lately.  She's nervous because she knows she's less than 2 months out from her first meet.  They increased her practices from 2x a week to 3x a week.  She's now at the gym 7 1/2 hours a week and she's only 6!  Thankfully she's dealing with it pretty well.

She had a rough practice on Monday and it was the first time she came home in tears and wanting to quit.  I was in shock and slightly concerned, but chalked it up (like my gymnastics pun?) to the fact that she had a full day of school after 10 days off and then went right to practice and she was over tired and sensitive.  Her coach came to see me after practice yesterday to let me know what happened on Monday.  Here they had a super tough, physical workout on Monday and Sis was just worn out and that's what made everything seem worse!  After practice on Tuesday, she was all smiles and is back in love with gymnastics.  She also has another coach involved on Monday practices and the new coach was pretty tough on Sis.  It's a good learning experience to deal with personalities who you don't naturally mesh with and how to make those difficult situations work.  I told her that some of my best coaches were the toughest on me because they knew I could do better even if it they knew I was going to be mad and frustrated in the process.  It's a lot for my little one, but she's tough and handling it pretty well.

Here's her floor routine from practice last night:

After practice last night, she went upstairs to take a shower.  Usually she comes back downstairs to let us know she's ready to get tucked in.  Last night she never came back down.  Andy and I knew that meant she fell asleep somewhere...This is how we found her!

She was out cold!  I had to wake her to get her in bed.  It was the easiest tuck in ever!