Last week, Eden got to venture to LSU's gymnastics camp. It was Monday through Friday starting at 9:00 and ending at noon each day. She was excited to go - partly due to Ashley watching gymnastics with her and talking it up - but the drop-off was a bit rough the first day (similar to the first day of school). She was okay when I gave her Georgia and a blonde gymnast came to carry her away (her favorite teacher, Katie).
Here she is towards the end of the week ...
After the first day, she was super excited to go back - apparently it was fun with lots of balance beam, bar, jumping, and dancing activities. One of her favorite things was to jump into a large pool of square, blue foam blocks (they called them blueberries). Perhaps her favorite thing, however, was the pizza restaurant we went to as a family ... and once with her friend, Sylvia.
Our favorite part was watching. There was a small viewing room upstairs with a two-way mirror ...
... and Lydia tended to sleep through the pickups.
We also had a parents day the last day - they did all their activities for us to show off their mad skills.
The first activity was the obstacle course which started with rolling down an incline ...
...followed by walking down the balance beam...
...then jumping into the bluberries and jumping over a series of stacked mats.
[Ashley loves this photo because it documents us in all our supportive-parent glory.]
Then there were a series of balance beams ascending in height followed by jumping on a long trampoline (and jumping onto some blue mats - the favorite part of many of the kids).
From every station they went to the next in a train line. She finally joined the rest of the gang after the trampoline ... she was a little upset and wanting Ashley to hold her for some reason between the first and second stations - one of her teachers found a white bear to calm her, and she was back to normal within 2 minutes.
Finally, there were the uneven bars ...
...they walked across then went back to the middle and lifted both legs for 5 seconds. Quite impressive!
Here is Eden with her favorite teacher, Katie.
And the happy family at the end of a great week!
