I Need to see More Chinese Girls...

Kate loves gymnastics. She loves to watch it and she loves to do it.

She looks forward to going to her gymnastics class each week. Every Monday we remind her that she's going to go to Salto (name of her gym) and she jumps up and down. (Then reminds us that she needs to go to Krispy Kreme for doughnuts and chocolate milk afterward.)

Steve decided that if she likes gymnastics so much, he should look on the internet for video clips of some champions performing. Well, he hit the jackpot and Kate was in heaven. She loves watching the the videos and has now become rather choosy about who she watches. We found a few of the Chinese athletes and she now only wants to see the Chinese athletes perform. (Yes, she can tell the difference!)

We asked her if she wanted to see some American gymnasts and she replied, "No, just Chinese."

Steve then asked her, "Kate, don't you like American gymnasts?"
Her reply was simply, "No." (We have no clue where she got that.)

We switched to the male athletes (Chinese male) and as she watched them perform on the parallel bars she said, "Man no fall and go boom!"

I guess we know who she will be rooting for during the Beijing Olympics!

Since she is now watching gymnastics, she is now workng on variations on her forward roll...she now does the:
1) simple forward roll
2) the Nascar forward roll (from a dead run into the roll)
3) the Peter Rabbit forward roll (hopping into the roll)
4) the "look Momma no hands" forward roll (hands held out to the side) and
5) the spread eagle forward roll.

Hopefully if she decides to compete in floor exercises, she adds something else for variation!

We have decided that her small size may make gymnastics a natural sport for her. We ran out of pants for her this weekend, so we had to put her in a pair of her brother's size 18-24 month pants. They were about a 1/2 too short, but otherwise fit. She thought it was pretty funny that she could where Sam's pants.