Mar. 1, 2006 - Gymnastics Time!!!

Welcome!! We  have been waiting so long to share about our fun days at gymnastics! Every wednesday we get to spend 45 whole minutes, running, jumping, flipping, rolling, swinging, hanging, bouncing and stretching!! We start class by doing a few laps around the tumble track to get warmed up. Then we sit on the mats and do some fun stretches and Miss April takes rollcall. Then we split up and half the class gets to do Floor Exercises while the other half "swings like monkies" on the high bars.

The Floor Excerises are really fun because we get to crawl inside tubes and then climb up different mats and roll down them front ways or backways (mommy is always there to help us too) then we also get to crawl under some things or hop over things and then walk very slowly on a Double Beam set real low. The Double Low Beam helps us practice our balance as well as how to jump at the end and land with both feet together! 

Here is a picture of Julia on the Highbars! It is soo much fun, but SOoo high it's kind of scary. Sometimes we swing back and forth like monkeys and other times we actually get to do backflips like Tarzan does (Miss April always assists at all times on all stunts) Some days when we are afraid to do the flips Miss April is real nice and let's us practice bringing our toes up to our hands and touching them to the bars instead. That's fun too.

After these two events we split up again and half the class gets to jump onto and hop over the Horse and then climb up to the High Beam, while the other class practices running on the Tumble Track. Mommy always helps us at the Horse and on the High Beam because it is really far down to jump at the end. Plus it is really thin, like 3 inches or something!

The Tumble Track is always fun because it is super bouncy!! We love running up and bouncing on the mini trampoline where Miss April helps us learn how to jump real high on it as we run up to it. Then we get to do lots of things all the way down the Tumble Track from Jumping Jacks to Tuck Jumps (where we try to bring our knees up to our chest) to our favorite part which is the Spiders!! When we do Spiders we get to run and jump on the trampoline and crawl on our hands and feet all the way down the rest of the track like we are spiders!! It is really fun! Most of the time though, as soon as we jump on the tramp we just take off running because you go REALLY fast! I think mommy sometimes gets frustrated that we don't listen to Miss April and just take off running instead, but sometimes we do try really hard to listen, ...but geez! It is    just     SO    much    fun to just RUN!!! Here is a picture of Megan running on the Tumble Track! Daddy says he likes this picture because it reminds him of Thing One and Thing Two from Dr.Seuss.

Then everyone gets a sticker for doing good and mommy gives us a little snack while she gets us dressed to leave. This is mommy's favorite part because she gets to go to Burger King for lunch afterwards! *giggles*

Well, we hope you liked hearing all about the fun stuff we get to do everyweek at Gymnastics! We have alot more pictures at Mommy's Flickr site and they will be updated as time goes on! Bye!! We love you! *blows kisses* (((waves)))

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Feb. 28, 2006 - *~*WELCOME*~*

Welcome to our new site! Mommy finally decided to make a site all OUR own! *giggles* Now we will finally be able to share all the neat things we are doing and learning as mommy begins "School" with us, and we'll be able to share our new drawings and latest pieces of artwork, and of course Daddy just loves putting up new photos of us at play! It's going to be SOOO much fun!! We love and miss all of you!! (((hugs)))

~Julia and Megan

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