Yesterday, Emily participated in her FIRST dance/gymnastics class! It was big stuff for this little 3 1/2 year old! Aside from church, it was her very first time being in a class setting! She did GREAT!! We took her to the Little Gym in town for a Dance/Gymnastics class and she was SO EXCITED!!
They spent the first half hour in the gym, where they worked on forward and backward rolls, cartwheels, rings, balance beam and more!! Then they moved over to the studio and spent the remaining half hour doing tap and ballet!! Emily had a BLAST!! This was a free intro class to see if this was the right fit for her, and what we found out by the end was that right now Emily is much more interested in and excited about gymnastics than she is about ballet or tap. I saw a totally different girl in the gym than I did in the dance studio. In the gym she was much more free and excited to go and explore and be who she is and in the dance studio she was a little more uncomfortable and just not quite as happy. Having watched the entire class through a glass and then talking with her teacher at the end, Micah and I decided that for now we would sign Emily up for a gymnastics class and to seal the deal we asked Emily if she liked her class and she said she did and when we asked what her favorite part was she enthusiastically (with that big Emily grin) said, "Gymnastics!".
So, starting next Thursday she will be going to the gymnastics class at the Little Gym!! We are all excited, but no one probably as much as Emily! Already she can hardly wait to get back out there on the gym floor!!!
All ready for class with her "shoe bag" and all!
There she is, practicing a backwards roll!
Rolling Down the Mat!
Getting Ready for Another Backward Roll!
Now, it's on to Tap!
And she's Ready!
Cuteness Galore!
And lastly, Ballet!!
Perhaps my FAVORITE moment of the evening!! I think she looks like an Egyptian belly dancer here:)
One last picture with Mimmi and Dooders!! Especially since they came all the way across town to see her first lesson!
In the Gym!
On the Dance Floor!
1 comment:
What a cute little gymnast you have. I can't believe how quickly they are all growing up and it looks like you are doing a great job of enjoying every minute of it!
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