Gymnastics & Baseball

Immediately following her first gymnastics class, Caitlin insisted on getting a proper gymnastics outfit. We bought the first one we found, which turned out to be slightly too small. That did not deter her from insisting it was fine, nor did it deter me from keeping it because I didn't have the time to trek back and exchange it.

 We threw some black leggings underneath and voila! You can't really see anything!

 She stretched, backflipped, and somersaulted her little butt off.

And finally, she earned her two stamps for the day, a signal that she did well, and that class was over.

Last weekend Jayden started a Baseball clinic. A baseball clinic is basically practicing the different parts of baseball sans teams. They go to different stations to discuss and practice hitting, fielding, pitching, mental approach, sportsmanship, base running, etc. 

We had a huge snowstorm and thought we weren't going to make it. Jayden was pretty disappointed at the thought of missing it so we went.

The kids started out with some drills, sprinting and doing some other stuff that I can't remember since I didn't take any pics of it. I did manage to get a bunch of pictures of him batting though!

 He hit 5 of the 7 balls pitched to him!

I really like that at each drilling station he received instruction and feedback. It wasn't like the team he played in where there didn't seem to be much instruction.

Here he is practicing with the tee. 

Wondering why there are chain links in all of my pictures of baseball? They had this gem waiting especially for me! So all of Jayden's baseball pictures will be from behind the gate. Boo. 

Except for this one because I quickly snapped a picture before returning to the other side. ;)