Abby had her third gymnastics tournament last weekend in Hershey, PA. She has missed one other meet this season because it was on a Sunday. Her group was actually supposed to compete on Sunday at this meet as well, but the organizers made a special exception for her to compete with the USAG Level 6 girls on Friday night since we don't do Sunday competitions.
She is so fun to watch and has really improved in three events (bars, beam and floor) although vault is still a struggle for her.
What a cute little toothless grin (she lost her two front teeth over 6 months ago and there is not a sign that they are growing back in yet. I sure hope there are some adult teeth up there!!)
Little Abby competing with the much older Level 6 girls. They really took her under their wing and she had so much fun!
I passed out 3 gummy bears every 15 minutes to help keep these spectators entertained. Landon discovered that if he just sucked on them the entire time, they almost lasted the whole 15 minutes!
Sometimes watching their sister compete is quite enthralling...
But it can cause some grumpiness to come out as well!!
But this little man was sure to cheer all the competitors on!!
Abby didn't earn any medals at this meet (it was a HUGE one, but very well organized.) She did earn a participation trophy though, so she was thrilled!!
Funny sidenote: During the awards ceremony, they were playing some music while we were waiting for all the scores to be tallied and all of a sudden we heard a little girl singing into the microphone who sounded a lot like Abby. Lo and behold, it was her, singing her heart out to Katy Perry's "Roar". She sounded so cute and got quite the applause. They tried passing the microphone to other girls to sing along, but all of them were too embarrassed, so they gave the microphone back to Abby and she finished out her performance in true Abby style. What a little performer!!
Funny sidenote: During the awards ceremony, they were playing some music while we were waiting for all the scores to be tallied and all of a sudden we heard a little girl singing into the microphone who sounded a lot like Abby. Lo and behold, it was her, singing her heart out to Katy Perry's "Roar". She sounded so cute and got quite the applause. They tried passing the microphone to other girls to sing along, but all of them were too embarrassed, so they gave the microphone back to Abby and she finished out her performance in true Abby style. What a little performer!!
2 comments:
I'm always amazed at how brave Abby is! My girls are such chickens. And good job for doing the no-Sunday thing. I remember being a bit frustrated about that as a child, but am now very grateful to my parents for sticking to that.
That is definitely Abby. She is quite the singer and always has been. It seems like she really enjoyed herself being with the older kids. Matthew went with Chris to teach the priests and Matthew just loved being with the big kids. Abby looks so grown up.
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