Just a quick (yet significant) entry to congratulate our very own Miss Becca for having made another advancement in the world of gymnastics. Miss Becca is my ten year old daughter who somehow talked me into letting her take on another activity (tumbling classes) some time back. She's quite an athletic little girl, and quite persuasive too (y'all know what I mean dads).
My brothers over at the AFB have been kept up to date with Miss Becca's rapid gymnastics advancements over the last year or so. What they don't know about is that due to my good friend's lengthy hospitalization (about four months), and the necessity of our seeing to his care during this time, we made the decision to temporarily suspend Miss Becca's gymnastics pursuits for the higher purpose. We didn't know, of course, that our friends' serious illness and hospital stay was going to last so long, but we finally determined to suspend Miss Becca's gymnastics puruits indefinately, until all was resolved with our friend.
I can happily report that our friend is indeed out of the hospital and doing much better now. Once he was finally released and everything looked like it was going to be ok, my wife and I started to plan for when we'd enroll Miss Becca back in gymnastics classes. It was decided between us that the fall session would be the date to shoot for. And it just so happens that the fall session is now beginning.
Also, we've been looking for a closer gymnastics academy than the one she's been attending, given that that one is 90 miles away. We found one closer to home that, though it hasn't the reputation throughout the USAG gymnastics world that the other one does, nonetheless has a fine reputation in this State for producing very good gymnasts. So we decided to give it a try.
Tonight was Miss Becca's tryout at the new place, and I'm happy to inform you that she did exceptionally well, despite about a six month layoff, and was acutally advanced to the next level of competitive gymnastics.
Nice show, Becca! USAG, here we come!
-DW
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." -Daniel Webster
Bravo and congratulations!
ReplyDeleteAnd folks, she's got good sense on top of all that!
-MT
Thanks, Mike. She is indeed a pretty bright girl.
ReplyDeleteBTW, whether y'all like it or not I'm likely to keep you fairly up-to-date as to how Miss Becca is progressing with her gymnastics pursuits on this blog.
As of right now she's been to two practice sessions at the new place and she's complaining of being rather sore due to the rigorous workout regiment that the new school has. But she's very happy and excited to be back at it, and she's indicated that she likes this school better than the other. So that's good!
More to come...
-Terry