Gymnastics.

We have been taking Elena to gymnastics for the past few weeks and she absolutely loves it!! We go every Thursday evening and on Monday she usually starts asking about going to gymnastics! :) It has been great because she has learned about listening to a teacher, learning new skills, waiting for her turn~

Each week they learn how to use a new piece of equipment. This week was the balance beam - here is E and her teacher Miss Jamie (who is fantastic!) learning how to walk across the beam.

Then she got to practice on her own on the shorter one. This is kinda blurry but look how great she is doing!

After the lesson then it is free time for the rest of class - Elena usually spends most of this time jumping on the trampoline!

As you can see by the next picture - she is having a blast!

More jumping - this time off the 'vault' (not quite ready for the real vault just yet!)

And she loves to hang like a monkey! Yesterday she even built a bar with her toys for her stuffed monkey to hang on and kept saying he was at gymnastics!

We learned how to 'skin a cat' last week ~ check out my big girl doing it all by herself!

But Mommy should have been spotting instead of picture taking because right after I took this picture she dropped and landed straight on her face! :( I felt terrible! She even busted her top lip open! I seriously felt like the worst mom ever!! She cried for a couple minutes but then she ran right back over to jump on the trampoline, tough girl! She was all better after class when she got a sticker and some ice, but let me tell you I learned my lesson!