Meleah has wanted to do gymnastics for a very long time. She had to sit and watch her brothers play football and wanted to join their team and play also. She has always been very athletic. The kids don't have the gym class here like they did in Arizona so we want to make sure they have something physical that they can do. Grandma Caroline helped to fund gymnastics. We used Meleah's birthday money to help get her started. She absolutlely loves it. She loves her coach, Ms. Peggy. I love her too. She is firm yet you know that she is watching every one of the girls and wants them to have a good experience. Meleah is funny to hear talk about her class because she has something that is her own that she has to explain to all of us. It is good for her, she gets to do the teaching now.
This is her favorite right now. The parallel bars. She calls them something related to a cat but I don't understand what she means. As I was sitting watching all the older girls do all of their exercises, I was thinking how much I like gymnastics because if nothing else it teaches you how to fall correctly to avoid getting hurt. I also like it because the kids have to listen to someone else's direction instead of my own. After the boys watched the first class they wanted to do it too until they saw the boys stretching and then they weren't so sure. They will start snowboarding this Friday so they will have their own activities to keep them busy.
