Gymnastics

Well the picture pretty much sums it up. Addi Jo started gymnastics on Friday morning. She loved it from the moment she learned it was just for her. She was so excited to learn she needed her own uniform as Lucas referred to it. When Friday morning came she was floating through the air on her smile.

Addi loved her leotard and spotted a blue one in the gym shop that she thinks she needs to have now to add to her wardrobe. If you ask Addi about nastics as she likes to call it she will be happy to tell you all about falling before getting into the building and hurting her knee. She will then go into how she learned to hold onto to bar and go through the "maze" as they like to call is. that is where you crawl through a circle tumble over a mat, crawl through a tunnel, walk a balance beam (that she fell off of) again before the coach helps you tumble. This is how they start every class with coach, in a smaller room where they can start to focus and get the "jumpies out"

The big gym. It is hard to imagine Addi will learn how to use all these pieces of equipment in a very short time. She loved flipping over the bar. With coaches help of coarse.

Learning to tumble

By far Addi's favorite gym activity is the trampoline. She does this weird dance jump routine up there.

I think every gym has a foam pit in the middle. The coach let them try it out. She set up a slide for them to slide directly into during "free gym" time and the had them jump into it off a mat if they wanted. Addi decided the trampoline was the way to go. Jumping to the end only to get back on to jump again.

Jumping, Jumping, Jumping Addi Jo talking to herself as she makes her way back to the trampoline.