As a little girl I had this dream of being a gymnast…flying through the air with the greatest of ease, but alas, my dream remained distant! Today, I brought my baby girl to a birthday party for some great friends of ours at their gymnastics studio. I was not sure what to expect, but I was so excited to find some of my favorite church peeps there with their kids!! After a few moments of watching the kids do their thing I began to look around…the trampoline, the uneven bars, and then there was the pit! I mentioned the desire welling up inside me to climb on the trampoline or jump into the foam pit, thinking it would definitely NOT be ok. You can imagine my excitement when permission was given to “try whatever I liked”.
I wish I had photos, and I wish I could say those photos would carry evidence of my natural ability to be a gymnast, but “natural” and “ability” would not be the words used to describe my first attempt at a flip, or my flopping around on the trampoline, BUT despite my lack of mad skills today I lived a small piece of my dream! (Thanks Kelly Canney for being amazing and that friend whose willing to be the other crazy mom diving into the foam pit:)
If ever you are given the opportunity to run full force and jump as high and far as you can into what seems like a bottomless pit of foam cubes, Just Do It!!
I will jump in the pit with you anytime! And you did totally fly through the air doing your front flip off the tumble track into the pit!!!