Gymnastics with Alex

As soon as we came back from Miami I signed Alex up for Gymnastics at the same place she went a year ago. It's called Elite Gymnastics Academy in Burnsville, MN. This time she signed up with her friend, Haylie, who just turned three years old. Alex has had two sessions so far and she is loving it! Although the first day she had a little separation anxiety problem, even though I was going to stay there and watch her. Her teacher basically had to pry her off of me. She ended up doing fine that day and had a lot of fun. The second time she went she had no problems going into the class by herself. Below are a few pics and a video from her second session:

Gymnastics at Elite Gymnastics in Burnsville, MN

Video of Alex at Gymnastics

Here is a video of Alex at last weeks gymnastics class.  She had her third class today.  She still wants me to be next to her during the whole class, but next week we are going to see if she will do the class by herself.  I might have to leave so she doesn't see me.

Keith is coming home in 29 days!  We are so excited to see him!  He has a lot of exams coming up.  He has his last mini exam and then a bunch of shelf exams.  The Shelf exams cover everything from the beginning of medical school so he has to go back and study for everything from first semester also.

Below is the video.  If it doesn't show up it's because I just uploaded it.

Alex and Hailey and Get in Gear 10k

Alex has had a few playdates with Haylie. Click Here for pictures.

She had her second gymnastics class and she did so much better. She is really liking it. Then on Friday's and Saturday's they have open gym so the last few weeks she has invited her little friend Hailey along and her cousin, Zoe.

I am planning to run in the Get in Gear 10k. Sarah and I have ran it twice in the past. It's been a while, but Sarah and I have been running together and training for it. I hope more of you can join us. Click here for the link.

Gymnastics Class

I decided to sign up Alex for a gymnastics class on wednesdays to get out of the house and do something different since she is not in daycare right now.  On the way to her first day of class I was so excited for her, but all she said was that she didn't want to go.  (She is too attached to me and never wants me to leave her).   When class started she wouldn't leave my side so I went with her for the first five minutes but she was so scared so I decided to run off and leave her but all she did was sit there by herself and cry.  So after 15 minutes I went back out there and told her I would stand next to her if she did what everyone else was doing.  After that she had fun for the rest of the class and at the end didn't want to leave.   Alex got to use the rings, the balance beam, she learned to do a somersault, and she jumped on the trampoline.  

I decided to take her to the open gym session today (Friday) so that she would get more comfortable with the gym and hopefully she will be able to go to class next Wednesday without me.  We invited her little friend Hailey to come along and the girls had so much fun!  Click below for pics from class and the open gym.

Gymnastics