Catching Up

Well...a lot has happened since my last post. I will be adding more today and throughout the week, but for now, here's some stuff about McKenna. The day before the kids & I went to New York (August 4th) Kenna finished her summer gymnastics classes. I went to the class, camera in hand, planning to document all of her progress for you. Caleb went with me that day and reviewed pictures on the way there. When I was ready to begin taking pictures, I realized he'd left the camera on, and the battery was dead. I was pretty sad about not having any pictures. For now, you'll have to try to picture these things: *McKenna on the balance beam. She walks along, doing tuck jumps the entire way (I think I would lose my balance on the landing, but she didn't--her toes touched down every time.) At the end, she did a really nice roundoff for her dismount. As the class went on she worked on adding more "spring" to her roundoff and she was able to land farther away from the beam. *McKenna on the vault. In class Kenna learned how to vault! On the first day she struggled just trying to get onto it, but by the end she could do a handspring onto/over it. *On the first day of class, Kenna became very frustrated trying to do right-handed cartwheels. She was definitely left-hand dominant! She mastered cartwheels--hers look professional now--and also learned how to do lots of other stuff on the floor. She continues to work on her back walk-over and is making good progress toward mastering it. . Kenna was also able to learn a little about the uneven bars. She really loves gymnastics and is hoping to take lessons again in the winter. (In school she's working on a large project (oral report/display). Of course, gymnastics is her subject!