A Few More Gymnastics Videos

Here are a few more gymnastics videos. They are not quite as cool as the previous ones but they show the kids personalities. Enjoy

We Love You Lindsey

Talmage and Anya loved their postcards from Lindsey. Talmage wanted to send her a video instead of a note in the mail. I'm sorry I didn't catch all of Anya saying "I love you Lindsey."

Like Papa

Anya seems to have inherited Papa's taste buds. This is a picture the night she ate a peanut butter and jelly (strawberry jam) sandwich with tuna fish. She also ate carrots dipped in caramel and when that ran out she dipped the carrots in the remaining tuna fish. She never ceases to amaze us with odd combination that she actually enjoys.

We Can Have Fall!

Today Anya looked out our front window and saw that our trees had changed color. She started jumping up and down saying "We can have FALL! We can have FALL!" That's how I have been feeling the past two days seeing trees changing color. We got another "cold front" this week. This is the third this year and we are ecstatic. This really set the trees off. Last year we had to wait till February for the leaves to get all brown and fall off before the new growth started. This year "we can have fall". So today is the coldest yet at 52 degrees. Everyone is decked out in the warmest close they can scrounge and many look like homeless people. It cracks me up. Unfortunately I have weeded out almost all of my long sleeved clothing not to mention sweaters/ sweatshirts. So I too am sporting the mismatched-trying to stay warm look. Anya wants to pull out the hot chocolate tonight. We'll make it a fall celebration. Monday's supposed to be 80 degrees, which makes it all more enjoyable.

These are the three trees Anya saw from our front window.

I love looking at leaves changing color up close.

Our Little Boo

This is what we often hear when Anya is using the bathroom. She also sings and makes up stories like this during nap time. (She also jumps on her bed.) Sorry all you get to see is the door. She sounds like Boo from "Monster's Inc."

The Great Dictionary Battle

At our house we have few fights over toys. But lately the dictionary is the coveted item. Both kids love to have it and if the other sees it in use they try to coax it from their sibling by trying to trade them for a Spanish/English dictionary. This doesn't work very often so until who ever has the dictionary gets distracted the "loser" has to use the Spanish/English one. As you can see they are the same size and both paperback. But they know which one is the "real" one. You may wonder what they do with the dictionary. Well I'm not sure. Mostly just pack it around and read or pretend to read words out of it, from what I can tell.

New Camera

We finally decided to buy a new digital camera with optical zoom. We love it! I tried it out at gymnastics, so now you can actually see the kids even though I'm still standing far away. Very cool.

Here is Talmage's round off dismount off the beam. His teacher is standing on a trampoline getting a picture of him for a advertising poster.


Here is one of Anya. She got to ring the bell because she did a really good job on the beam. Then her teacher asks her to go and do it again. She is jumping over small cones on the floor beam.

Anya's bottom is actually off the pummel horse and her teacher is just helping her keep her legs steady. Anya is getting stronger and loves it.

Talmage is quite flexible and always enjoys cheesing it for the camera.

Talmage's strength impresses me. He is holding himself up by his hands and then keeping his legs steady, with pointed toes. His great strength is his shoulders and then his abs.

I have one more video that is too big to post so Aaron is trying to figure out how I can split it into two videos. In it Talmage is doing a regrip on the bar-- a level 4 skill (that is competitive level) and then he does a handstand on a low bar and holds it against a wall. I am told these are hard skills but he makes them look so easy. Talmage and Aaron sometimes have push up and sit up competitions (usually instigated by me). They are both so competative. Aaron doesn't want a five year old to beat him and Talmage really wants to be as strong as a dad. Talmage is almost there!