Running and jumping and rolling -oh my!

Ali went to gymnastics - cheerleading tonight. Yes, Aunt Holli Cheerleading! I swore to my sister I would do my best to dissuade my daughter from the vindictive life of a cheerleading. Mind you... My life was nothing like the "cheerleader murder moms" in Texas. I must say I had wonderful experiences most of my career, however I have tried to encourage Ali with ALL types of extra curricular activities. We have done ballet, or course and gymnastics last year, but Ali and her friends wanted the combo class of tumbling and cheerleading. Ali goes to a gym where a guy I cheered and worked with owns! It's pretty funny to run into each other with our kidos now.

Ali had a great day at school! I went to pick her up and she met me with a huge smile and her teacher said she was super good today... Oh yeah!!! She got her "book club" books and got so excited she could already read a few of the pages (her teacher had helped her)! She wanted to go home an read. Wow - not another afternoon of SpongeBob! I am so proud of her.

When Ali was about 2 she loved to play this Dora the Explorer game on the computer and she always played it on "easy". She found it again today and was so excited she could play on "hard". I am so amazed by her ability on the computer - she must get it from her Aunt Holli. It has been unbelievable. She literally has been using a mouse since she was 18 months. I can sit down and want to help her and she gets frustrated with me cause I slow her down. I get the "OK mom I've got it"! And then the look - you know the look.

Thanks for visiting Ali and I!!

Ali says:

I like being a cheerleader, I love being in gymnastics and I got to wear my grey sweater(?) and I went to school today - I um... I got my book order - one is a Cat book - and one is It's Hard to be 5! And the last is It's the Night Before Kindergarten - we read them all - we read the It's Hard to be 5 twice - it's really funny! I was so good today I got to go get a icy afterschool and watch tv! It was a cherry limeaide icy.

See ya later!

Ali strikes a pose in her new tennies - how cute is her figure?!