May 11, 2012

Mini Olympics

Check out Toaster's sweet new skills...











She did her routines in public for the first time last weekend.  It was a great experience for her.  She left feeling accomplished and "not so scared to do that in front of a judge", as she put it.  We are so proud of out little Toaster.  Gymnastics has been such a blessing for her.  At the beginning of the school year, and through the whole first semester, she really struggled academically.  We were seriously thinking moving her back to first grade.  Then she made the team, and it was like something switched on for her.  It was the confidence boost she needed.  Now she is reading in the top of her class, her writing has greatly improved, and she is placed into the pace math program.  All in 4 months.  She  did all that in school WHILE training 8 hours a week after school.  She is amazing.   I love her so much and am so proud of her.  Go Toaster Go.

4 thoughts:

Amy said...

Wow!! Good for her!! She is awesome!

Brandon and Camille Smithson said...

Wow! That's impressive! And the turn around in her schooling is amazing too. Way to go!

larainydays said...

There is a steely spine in that flexible little woman.

Sam and Melissa said...

What a little pro. She looks like she has been doing it for years!