gymnasts

The kids had their first gymnastics class this morning and I have never seen Mika get over her shyness so quickly. Usually we only attend the first class of *anything* long enough for her to have a complete meltdown from fear and shyness - 15 minutes or so. The second class is painful for her and by the third, she's fine. Today she tearfully and reluctantly participated in a group warmup session with me and about 30 other kids and parents. Ten minutes later she was putting her hand up to do demos for her group - something I've never seen before. Yeah, she loves it. She does really well - it seems very natural for her.
Declan loved his session too despite not being the type of kid who can sit still for any amount of time or listen to directions. We're starting to get the hang of herding him these situations. I still think we may end up needing a border collie or something. ANYWAY - he loved the trampolines and rings. The kid is freaky strong. He also believes that he is a superhero, so he's got that whole "you are what you believe yourself to be" thing going on too. Of course the Hulk/Spiderman/Venom/Abomination/Superman can run across beams and leap, swing from bars, roll, jump onto things, etc. etc..