Tumbling

This summer, we enrolled Ella in a tumbling class for 5 weeks through the Community Education program. Needless to say, she was a little hesitant at first, but it soon become her highlight of the week.

When the Des Moines Register reporter, she was a little show-off (surprise, surprise - I know). So she made the local edition - Urbandale Register and I was quoted. Good times!

She learned how to do frog hops, bunny hops, somersalts, split leg somersaults and cartwheels. Surprisingly enough, she actually did very well at all of them - including cartwheels. So now, we're just doing remedial tumbling at home. I don't think her long term profession is in dance - so the only other option would be gymnastics and it seems like with the success of Shawn Johnson that it's pretty expensive - so for now, we'll pass.