“Stick With It” Quickly Becomes “Stick It!”

Right around Samantha’s 5th birthday, after months of asking, we decided that the timing was finally right and enrolled Samantha at a charming little school of dance.  A special day was set aside to shop for the necessities: a pink leotard, itty bitty ballet shoes, and shiny black tap shoes.  For months - maybe years - we read about Angelina Ballerina at bedtime, and everyday Samantha would sashay around the house in her lovely lavender tutu.

Several months into practicing her plié and shuffle-step, while driving home from class, I asked Samantha if she was enjoying her dance lessons.  In her sweet little voice, my pleasing child replied, “No…I think it’s kind of boring.”

What?!?!?!  What was this silly girl talking about?  This was going to be her thing.  I drove on wondering how to convince her that she really didn’t mean what she had said, and that one day, perhaps the day she was crowned Miss America, she would remember this day and be grateful she stuck with it.  Instead, from her car seat in the back, she perked up and in her kindergarten wisdom said,

“I would like to be a gymnast.”

2011 Level 6 State Meet – Springfield, Missouri

Vault – 5th Place

Bars – 3rd Place

Beam – 5th Place

Floor – State Champion!!!

All-Around – 2nd Place

Way To Go, Sami!!  Awesome Job!!!

And Good Call :)