Here is Brooklynn learning a cart-wheel at her tumbling class. This class has alot less kids than the dance class did so she gets more one-on-one attention. After trying both classes, I asked Brooklynn which one she prefers and she has decided on the tumbling class. Even though I did tumbling for years when I was younger and will enjoy watching her learn, I was kind of disappointed. Brooklynn "has the music in her" and has been dancing around the house since she was a baby. She LOVES dance and anything to do with music so I was surprised at her choice. When I asked her "why" she said that the dance class was "too pushy". I inquired some more and discovered that it was the large size of the dance class that she didn't care for. Granted, it really was too big. There were so many girls that they were literally chest-to-back, with no room to stretch or practice when they were on the "bar". Brooklynn is a little younger and shorter than most of the other girls in that class so she caught a few elbows to the face and got a few toes stepped on since she didn't have any shoes on. I told her it was her choice, so we will be having fun doing tumbling this year, but I think I'll let her give dance another try next year when she's in the older class that has fewer girls. My parents always had me and Troy try everything at least once so we could decide what suited us best. I'm thankful they did and I'm thankful they supported us in out choices.

Thanks Mom & Dad!

So, I decided to take get Brooklynn involved in either dance or tumbling. "Twist-n-Shout" is the only place in the surrounding 3 counties that teaches dance so you can imagine how crowded and expensive it is...but I though we'd give it a shot. This video is from my digital camera and shows Brooklynn in the middle with a black shirt and red pants. They are doing tap dance right now and Brooklynn LOVES doing tap here at home so I thought she'd love it. She seemed to have alot of fun.

Are they made of sugar???

As I was cleaning tonight, I overheard Russ reading Brooklynn her scripture stories when they came to the storey on Noah's Ark.
Russ: "Noah was a great prophet who tried to call the people to repentance, but they would not repent and continued in their evil ways. So the Lord told Noah to build an Ark and gather his family and the animals together. Once the Ark was built, the Lord sent a great flood that covered the whole earth and the wicked people were washed away".
With a quizzicle look on her face Brooklynn said: "Were the wicked people made of sugar?"
It took me a couple seconds before I remembered the many rainy days that she's been ushered quickly into a car or a house with the admonition, "Hurry up! You're made of sugar and sugar melts in the rain!" Russ and I got quite a kick out of her innocence and how she takes things so literal. Although it was a funny moment, it made me think about how grateful I am for our Savior who allows all our wickedness to be "washed away" like sugar in the rain.