The girls have been doing gymnastics since the beginning of the year; Cailyn just recently graduated to the next class! I no longer follow her around helping her out, she does it all by herself.
She got a ribbon for graduating from the "Lil' Hopper" class, and is very proud of it. It's been hanging on our fridge ever since!
It sure has been fun to watch Cailyn's skills and confidence progress over the months! When we started, although she has always loved gymnastics, she was very clingy and nervous about some of the exercises, but now she does them all with a smile. The thing that I will always remember is how TERRIFIED she was of the ladder; it is triangle shaped (two ladders meeting at the top) and is probably about 5 feet tall The kids are supposed to climb up, over, and down. While doing the circuits if the ladder was coming up, she would start crying a few activities before she got there saying "I don't want to do the ladder!" I had to physically move her hands and feet to get her to do it. But she gradually became more and more confident and after a couple months she did it by herself like a pro! Learning to climb the ladder helped build her confidence at home with climbing down from beds, chairs, etc. She used to have a lot of anxiety about these things, but after she learned to do the ladder, we started telling her to climb down "just like the ladder at gymnastics." And every time she successfully got down from somewhere she would say in a super excited voice "I did it just like the ladder!"
I'm one proud mama!
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