(I found the camera adaptor, but it takes awhile to render videos and I’ve decided to hold off on those until next week.)
Ashlyn is picking up her gymnastics very quickly. In a few short classes she’s built up the confidence to start doing front rolls on her own. A “front roll” is a fancy way of saying “summersault”, although technically I think it’s the other way around. The word “summersault” derives from an old French word, sobresaut, which is derived from the Latin words supra (over) and saltus (jump).
Now that we all feel educated, let’s take a look at the front roll, Ashlyn style. This is a three part process.
1. Tall Like a Tree – This is an easy step, but often forgotten by Ashlyn. In this step, you simply raise your hands in the air, as if you’re a tree. In this case, a toddler-sized tree with no leaves and only two branches.
2. Hands on the Ground – In this step, you simply put your hands on the ground and tuck your head in. I spent 5 minutes trying to come up with some funny to add to this step, but that’s all you do. You take your hands, and then you put them on the ground. Yep.. that’s it.
3. Roll! – And off she rolls. Notice the pointed toes, the downward angle of the legs, and the diaper hanging out of her pants. I don’t have the gymnastics background that Heather does, but I’m pretty sure we’re going to get an invitation to the London Olympics next year. Fish and chips, here we come!
Aside from gymnastics, Ashlyn has a learned another valuable life skill: the Brain Freeze. This, unlike the complicated gymnastics process, is much simpler. You put the frozen food, in this case yogurt, in your mouth. Then you get a brain freeze.
Afterwards, because it’s very easy to forget something that happened 5.4 seconds in the past, you do it again.
I hope we all learned something in this blog post. I know I did.
And with that, we wish you all a good night!
