Gymnaxtics

This fall we signed Darcy up for a 6-week gymnastics class which she called "Gymnaxtics". Like her mother, Darcy isn't the most co-ordinated young lady you're ever going to meet so we thought a round of gymnastics might help. We also thought that because she's not in day care right now she could use some structured time around other kids.

When Nick took her the first week we were a little surprised to find out that parents weren't allowed in the gym during the class. Apparently it is a little distracting to the kids. We were told we'd be welcome to watch on the last day.

So for the last few weeks we've been relying on Darcy's interpretation of what happened in class, which hasn't been all that reliable. We've been hearing about her "rolling like a pencil on the cheese", or she'll do a motorcycle jump and finish it off by raising her arms and yelling "vassay!". We had no idea what these things meant and we were interested to go this morning for parents' day to find out what it was all about.

Apparently "rolling like a pencil on the cheese" simply means rolling with a straight body down a wedge-shaped mat. Easy enough. "Vassay" (this one puzzled us the most) seems to be Darcy's translation of the word, "Present". When she kept saying it when we got home today we corrected her and told her she should be saying "present" she told me, "I'd rather call it 'vassay'." OK then.

All in all we thought it was a good confidence booster for her (although she did let several other kids cut in front of her in line for the trampoline) and I think it's helped her co-ordination a bit. We've signed her up to start the class again next week so we'll see how round two goes!

Rolling like a pencil on the cheese. This is apparently as straight as her body gets!