SUPERSTAR !

I am a very proud mama as I write this blog today. Leilani had a gymnastic meet yesterday, and she finally won some awards. All last season she hoped and worked towards winning something, and it just never happened. After the fiasco last week when they got kicked out of their first meet without finishing competition (the gym manager had forgotten to pay the membership fees to USAG), we weren't sure how the girls would do today. They ended up doing great! It was a 12 team meet, and our team (Gymanstics Northwest) took third. Leilani placed in three out of four events (7th on bars, 5th on beam and 5th on floor) and also placed in the all around (6th with a 34.95). We were so proud, and so was she (as you can tell from the picture). I cannot describe how nervous I feel for her everytime it is her turn to compete; it is funny how you feel like you are right there doing everything with them. Alan was keeping track of her stats (they have to get 35 twice in order to move up to the next level), and had it figured that if she got an 8.45 or higher on her last event (bars) then she would make 35 for the first time. He groaned when they showed her score - 8.40 - because he knew she had missed it by .05 Oh well, there will be plenty of other meets, and she had her highest ever all around score and her highest score ever with a 9.2 on floor. Did I mention how proud we all are? If you are interested, her other two scores were 8.75 on beam and 8.6 on vault. We'll see if she can improve on vault this season. Although it wasn't her lowest score, it is her worst event. The scores are misleading, because vault is an event that people score higher on. Bars, which was her lowest score and which she placed on (they placed the top 7 on each event at this meet) is a lot harder event and has lots lower scores.