Hello! I have been enjoying the meet-free month. My next meet is in two weeks. Yesterday was conditioning day at gymnastics. I think it was the second conditioning day that I didn't cry. Conditioning day is three and a half hours of conditioning. I find it interesting that hang time is the second most tear-providing exercise and I find it easy. Hang time is just dangling on the uneven bars. It hurts because your hands are toughening and it hurts the forearms but it doesn't hurt me. The first most tear-providing exercise is hanging under the beam. The first time I did it I cried but I didn't drop. One of my reasons is that if you do you start over the timer for the whole group. I also wasn't treated well by some of the girls at the beginning of my time at olympic. It doesn't take an idiot to tell that more conditioning doesn't help that.

Mom got an emergency business meeting in LAS VEGAS. In some of her free time she did some gambling with fake money. She won three hundred dollars in fake money. She left on Sunday and will come back on Wednesday

Thomas's diaper is not nice.

One of the girls at gymnastics, Nadia, has a brother who is on Joey's soccer team. She is actually his younger sister. We live so close together that this might result in a lot of carpooling. The problem is that Nadia and I are not on the friendliest of terms (as are about two thirds of the girls in my class). She is about Julie's age, so she rarely ever pays attention. She complains during conditioning and with Gergely there's more conditioning if you complain. However if I get to know her a little better she might be nice. AND I might be able to get some baby-sitting customers.

The saturday gymnastics class.

I had a play date with Mara on Friday. After gymnastics we were actually able to convince our parents to let us have a sleepover. We had a morning gymnastics class at eight thirty so Mara and I agreed to go to sleep by eleven 'o' clock.

Karen was in charge of the class. We started out with mini tramp. Mini tramp is a spring board with a trampoline in the middle instead of springs. We started out with the simple stuff then we went into front flips. I then got to do some pikes (a front flip with straight legs). Karen made me do some lay outs too (a front flip where your body is completely straight). We went on the tumble track to do twists. A twist is a lay out where at the end you twist your body around. I tried to do a full twist but I could only manage halfs. I did a back walkover on the highway beam. Then I did back handsprings on the low fat beams.

Christmas list

For those of you who want to know my Christmas list a little early it is available. This post will have constant updates if anything else comes to mind (note these are in no particular order)

1. I've been enjoying drawing, particularly flowers. I would appreciate maybe a few nice pictures that I can draw.

2. Some nice, everyday clothes. Especially gymnastics ones (not leotards). There are two good company's I know of, Gym Monkeys (I generally have a no monkeys rule on clothing but when gymnastics is involved I accept them) and Snowflake Designs.

3. Jeans (that are good)

4. an Ipod nano might be nice.

From Museum Tour; Celestial Wonder, Battle Strikers Tournament set, Vanishing files, Introduction to Genes and DNA, Hurricane Tracker, Lightning lab and Slide and grind Combo.

Church time! I signed up to be an alter-server about two weeks ago. The problem is that there is a thing where the lead alter server does the teaching. However, the lead alter server graduated, so this conducts a problem. I have forty five minutes before church and I'm all ready. I have decided to post a blog. Mom does the choir so we normally sit by the choir. The alter servers get a reserved spot in the pews. I wonder if they'll sit by me or the choir.

Gymnastics day, and if I'm lucky I'll get Mrs. Deli as a coach to day. I need to remember to bring the trophy and my grips to the gym. I really want to go to bar and beam. If I can get as good on beam as I am on floor. I'll get really high scores. Bar if you ask me is so different from all the other events it becomes differcult. Although, because what you can do on bar varies so much, it is, in my opinion, one of the best ones to watch. However, connecting the skills gives bar a very fluent look. So it looks wonderful, even in compulsory levels, as long as it is connected.

My best friend, Eliana, Joey, Julie and I play a game called kid's ville. We have marble that we use for money. I run a card shop. Joey and Julie work for Eagle Eye, Eliana's company. No it is not named after the movie, she has been using the name Eagle Eye for many things before the movie came out. Eagle Eye owns a daycare, the local marketplace and the hotel spot. The daycare was a really good idea because we all do our jobs but we really need something to do with the baby's we adopted. The original idea was that all the baby's were in the bathroom cupboard (we soon adopted them all). It only cost three marbles, we start out with about twenty marbles. The market place is the play room. It isn't the most successful store because we all can play with the toys anyway but I did buy a stroller, once. The hotel just came out today but it is ingenious! Joey works there to do the massages and the fanning. The electronic piano plays music too. Eliana helps Joey if their are two customers at a time. Joeys back massages are very peaceful and the fanning is nice too. I might have to come up with something so brilliant to keep from going bankrupt :-0

Joey had a play date with a boy named Andy on Tuesday. It kind of screwed up my routine of the day. I forgot to put my hair up (fortunately I have hair do dads in my cubby B-), I forgot my snack (Fortunately I had a snack in the car because I was supposed to go on Monday but their was something wrong with the car and I forgot to bring it in :-) I forgot my grips :- (I don't have I back up for this one) and I forgot the trophy :- (I was supposed to bring it to the gym). Class went normally. Except that I had to vault over the block and the block almost tipped on me. Gergely held it for me. On bar I did some casts with ankle weights on. Believe me when I took them off the casts were well above horizontal. I went to beam with Mrs. Deli and I used to think Karen knit-picked. I loved it because now I really know what to do on the beam. I guess that's what you get when you're coached by the ex-head coach of the U of M : - )

Mom has posted the last two meet videos in Olympic gymnastics fans.

The last meet went pretty well (I was also the only level five from olympic). Floor was the first event so I had a positive start. I smiled and did my routine. My back-handspring was a little high but it was an 8.3 routine. Another girl from olympic, Mackenzie, got an 8.25 and everyone except Mackenzie and I said the judges were judging hard. I recognized the judges from the qualifying meet. I tied my personal best with an 8.3.

The next event was vault. Mrs. Deli was doing some really weird adjustments to the vault. My first vault wasn't to awesome and my hand slipped on the second one. I got my lowest score ever (on vault), 7.2.

Bar was good for me but awful for Olympic. THREE out of SIX girls didn't make their squat ons and I was one of the ones who did make it. What I find very annoying was that some of them were telling me that the squat on was simple and anyone could do it when I was trying to make it. I went through the routine without falling. I even connected the whole front half. Although, I did have froggie legs on one of the casts. I jumped to the high bar without thinking, which is why I have decided that Terra's theory that my head gets in the way of my jump is true. I took an extra swing before the long-hang kip because I thought I wouldn't make it if I didn't. I got a 6.6

Beam was good if I didn't fall on the cartwheel. I didn't really do a good beam routine. I got a 6.65

I actually got a trophy even though I was the only one on the level five team. And no I still earned the trophy even though It was third place out of three. Actually, I am ahead of all the teams who didn't come to the meet. They all have zeros while I have a 28.4. The level sixes came up with me for the trophy too, because they wanted to support me and I really didn't want to be the only one standing on the pedestal. In turn, I went up with them for their trophy.

See my videos at Olympic gymnastics fans (There's a link to it on my blog) :- )

I have another break from gymnastics. This is both annoying and pleasant. Joey and I maddened Dad at the beginning of school. We were doing biology and Joey and I couldn't stop laughing about the Babinski reflex. Now if you heard about a reflex that baby have called the Babinski reflex you would laugh too, right? The babinski reflex is a reflex that makes them flex there feet and pull away if you put a sharp object an their feet. If you're not a baby then you curl your feet and pull away. So when I heard it I giggled a little while joey was laughing his nerves off. Joey's laughing was contagious so in the end Dad yelled at us to get us serious and ended the biology lesson. I was very serious in spelling. Dad continued the biology lesson after lunch. We learned about nerves. The sense nerves are put all over the body but in some places more than others. if you take your fingers and put them against someones back they they can be an inch apart, but to the person it feels like one finger. But to the hand you have to have them together. on the cornea it doesn't feel heat but it feels very sharply if anything touches it. The liver only feels if it is being stretched you could burn it or cut it but it would hurt if it was stretched.

I had a terrible meet on Saturday. It was a state qualifier, so if you got a thirty two point 0 at this meet you get to go to the state meet. Abbie was three tenths off of state. Bars was the first event and with the squat ons from Friday I was terrified to do it. I didn't make any in the warm up either. I fell three times. I fell once on the front hip circle, the squat on and the long hang kip! I got a 4.95. Unfortunately, with bars being the first event it started a bad tone for the rest of the meet.

On beam I fell on a half turn because I was trying to hold it in position to long. I fell and jumped back on really quickly. Now, that was something I didn't know was that I have thirty seconds to regain my composure before you have to get back on the beam. It was an OK routine but I fell again on the cart wheel and the handstand was a little shy. I got a 5.55.

Floor! I went ahead forgot everything else and went out there and did my thing. It was awesome. I bent my arms on the back extension roll so that's a .8 deduction. I ended up with a 8.05.

The vault was wonderful. The arms were straight and I stuck the landing. I practically flew off of the vault. I think it was basically an 8 vault but the judges disagreed. 7.95 instead, I needed to get more distance of the vault and that will give me a better score.

The Monday practice improved me on floor. However, bar was a disaster. Squat on mania, as I predicted. My problem is I am afraid but I still try but it's like I forgot how to do it. One of my problems is my right leg. In squat ons it has trouble getting on the bar. It also bends in kips, on the beam dismount and during swings. My left leg has it but not my right one.

Dodgeball catasrophie! (please tell me I spelled that right)

I can survive vault, beam, floor and bars (well I think I can survive bars) but I can't survive a stupid game of dodgeball. I was the only one left on the team, it was one against three. I had just thrown the ball and now all three of them were pursuing me. I ran backwards and then I twisted my ankle running backwards. And right after a ball hit my foot I started crying. I mean it really hurt (I probably looked like a real baby since I started crying right after I lost.) I did the twenty five v-ups that you have to do if you are out. Then I explained to Gergley and he examined my foot gave me an ice bag and once it was numb he examined it again. Then he told me to do 15 minutes of pure torcher (Ok really he told me to put my foot into a bucket of ice for five minutes and then wait for it to thaw then do it again two more times). Well when we got home I put my foot in a bucket of water with ice in it. It took 15 minutes for me to actually put in the water. Then the ows began it started out with screaming then I just cried. The second time I was quiet same for the last. My foot couldn't get un-thawed the last time I did it. Before, my friends and I would joke that the water was thirty two degrees cold. We would be screaming if it was thirty two degrees. I can walk on it know because of the icing my next task is to convince Gergely to let me do vault and floor.

I enjoyed another art lesson today. I drew a wonderful picture of a small bouquet of flowers that I found on a walk with Grandma and Joey (the horrors of this walk are not to be revealed). It had good flowers but the sky wasn't to good because it is too dark and it has marks of white. I don't really want to fill in the marks of white because it gets darker if you try to.

We watch a Great Courses biology movie every day for twenty minutes. We just finished the respiratory (lungs and breathing) system and the Cardiovascular (heart and blood pumping) system. We are moving on to the nervous system.