Another Fun Gymnastics Meet!

Today we went to Tomball for another gymnastics meet for Emily. We had to be in Tomball at 7:15, so that meant I had to get up at 4:00 this morning in order to get myself dressed and to have enough time to fix Emily's hair and eat breakfast. For her meets, it is required to have her hair in this gymnastics style bun. The bun takes me about 30 minutes to do and when finished fixing it, I have to sew it together with embroidery thread and a needle to secure it to her head. Crazy, I know!

Regardless of the early start this morning, Emily had another great meet. She got a 9.0 on her floor routine which was the highest on her team. All the girls at her level all have to do the same routine to the same music. It is always fun to watch her perform! We are so proud of how well she did again! Here is the video of her on the floor......

I also thought I would post her on the vault. The vault has always been very hard for Emily because of how short she is. At this level, the girls don't use the actual vault yet, but instead do the required skill by landing on a mat. The mat they have to land on is as tall as Emily, making it a little bit harder for her. Next year they will start using the actual vault and that will make me very nervous! But regardless she did well on the vault today...here is her video! Enjoy!

Emily's Gymnastics Meet

This past weekend Emily competed in her second gymnastics meet. She did so well and we are so proud of her. :)

Overall, she had the second highest all around score on her team. She had the highest score from her team on the vault. But even better, she got the highest score on her beam routine out of all of the girls on her team AND out of all of the girls her age there competing against each other. WOW!!!! These meets are the real thing with real judges and everything! One of the judges was a Nationally Ranked judge that had even judged at the Olympics! We have learned they just don't hand out good scores, the girls really have to earn them.

I know as parents we are all so proud of our children, but as we watched her perform her routine I sat so amazed and so unbelievably proud of her. She had worked so hard and her hard work was paying off and it all showed in her routine. Jeff and I were so nervous for her!! I have a hard time just walking across a beam, but Emily is so confidant and performs as if she is just standing on the floor! I think she looks so graceful as she is doing it. To me, the beam is one of the hardest apparatus' in gymnastics. Just one little wobble, she could fall and all of her hard work would be for nothing.

Anyway, I have included her routine for you all to see! The filming is not the best because we were far away from her, but you can at least see what she is doing. (Please ignore the music in the background that is for the girls that are competing on the floor and all of the people screaming. There were some loud people there!)

Pretty good, huh......