Dance Recital & Gym Meet

Rylee was in both dance and gymnastics this year and loved both. She does so good at both and seems to have a natural talent for it because she catches on so well and learns things so quickly. In gymnastics, this was her first year and by February she was not only doing her backbend and kicking over but she was doing her leg-up back walkover with no problem. Which is how she broke her arm. She had them mastered and was practicing doing four in a row and one of the times she just landed wrong. She was out of gymnastics for 8 weeks because of this break and I was really worried because the gym meet was only a week and a half after she was able to return to practices. So she had one practice before the gym meet.

The gym meet and dance recital was on April 30, 2011. She had to do two passes....one of the passes, I believe, was handstand tuck and roll, front roll, rebound, back extension roll, rebound and the other pass she had to do cartwheel, one-handed cartwheel, round-off, rebound. She was barely able to do the one handed cartwheel a week before the meet and she did awesome. Anybody out there that didn't know she had a broken arm would have never even been able to tell she went without so many practices. She was up against 5 and 6 year olds. She ended up taking 1st place overall for her level and group. We couldn't have been more proud!

At the dance recital she had so much fun. She always loves getting into her costume, putting on makeup and glitter and going out there with all her friends and dancing. And boy can this girl do some awesome toe touches. She also loves that afterward she can stay and watch all the other dances. Usually after Rylee is done Brett will take Dax and head home while Rylee and I stay and watch the whole thing. Dax does not like sitting still, so 30 minutes feels like hours when trying to get him to sit there and watch.

It was a really fun year and we look forward to the next season of dance and gymnastics, which starts in about two weeks now. She loved doing both dance and gymnastics and really liked her teachers Miss Bree and Miss Katie.