one more little celebration {flips gymnastics}

I couldn’t get these videos to upload fast enough yesterday for my “little celebrations” post so I left gymnastics off my list of things I’ve checked off (along with a whole slew of other things that just may bore us all to tears if I wrote them all down).  But this was a good one. Grace and Claire started a new “flips” gymnastics class this year and have learned SO much.  (I wrote a little bit about it back when I wrote about Claire last week…or was that two weeks ago??) Their recital was last Saturday. Some of those numbers were so good they made me tear up a little bit. Dave has started to look at me like I might have a little problem with all the “tearing up” I’ve done lately.  But honestly, if you think about these two things you may tear up when you watch it too: 1) All the hard work these girls have put in to get to this point.  And the sheer courage it takes to stand there and fling your body into a backflip or back tuck.  2) How amazing is the human body that it can do things like this?  Things that are hard and take so much concentration. See if you catch my drift when you watch this portion I videoed: Did you tear up? I kid, but they are pretty awesome, right? Here’s part of Grace and Claire’s number…the part before all the flipping and twirling because I was tearing up too much to catch that part.  (I kid, I was really ok but Lucy was trying to ask me a bazillion questions there at my side so I had to stop.) Two of their cousins do gym at the same place so it was so fun to watch them in action as well.  Claire jammed her fingers so badly two days before that I thought there was no way she could do it, but she taped those babies up and pulled through despite a little pain. With a lot of encouragement from her big sis. Love those girls of mine.