Kaiya's big day

I guess I should have known this day might come. Miss Kaiya has made the gym team. The girl learned how to go down the stairs backwards before she learned how to walk and she pulled the towel bars off the walls using them as monkey bars when she was 2.

I'm so torn--gymnastics is a sport I loved down to my bones and yet now it's my bones that ache because of it. So much of who I am I owe to my years as a gymnast and yet I wonder how much I missed. I guess it's all premature to worry about at this point, but she was quite excited and I like the philosophy of her gym and her coach. They practice fewer hours a week than most gyms so that they can have a life outside the gym.

I guess for now, we'll just see how it goes. She moves up to be on the team right after Valentine's Day which means 2 hours of practice on M/W/F with competitions beginning in the spring.

The video is the last skill she needed to make team. It is sort of the hallmark of gymnastics--everything else builds on it. I really thought she was months away from doing this by herself. Guess I thought wrong. The smile on her face was pretty priceless.