Gymnastics

We took Ben & Maggie to the St. Louis Gym Centre yesterday to get them assessed. Maggie has been very interested in taking gymnastics lessons and we have wanted Ben to take lessons for a long time. They both did really well. Maggie definitely has the ability to do it, but still lacks the attention span to keep up with the other kids. She started off very well, but it was clear that after about 20 minutes she was going to do her own thing. The teacher gave up with trying to get her to do what the other kids were doing. However, at the end of the session, she told me that she REALLY had to go to the bathroom, which could have explained her constant jumping up & down and her inattention. We decided to sign her up for a session anyway and see how she does, but it may just be too early for her to take lessons. Ben was great, he definitely has an innate ability to do gymnastics. He was able to do almost everything that the other kids could do, so with a few lessons he should progress very quickly. I had no idea that he could do some of the things he was doing. He was really excited about taking classes and said that he wanted to go back. Obviously, he was right to wait until now & we would have made a mistake to force him to go to classes earlier. I am hoping that both kids can do well and stick at this as they would be so good. I told Ben that he should be in the 2020 Olympics and he can represent either Ukraine or US-no pressure!!!!