Valentine's Party

For Valentine's Day, Kyler's teacher arranged to have a gymnastics party at the University's gym just down the road. Her husband is the gymnastics coach at the academy (which is next door to Kyler's school) and they use the University gym for practice.

The kids all walked to the gym together. Then they did some stretching exercises with the academy gymnastics team. They were divided into four groups and rotated through the gym doing various activities. Kyler's first rotation was the rope swing. He loved that! Then he did the trampoline run (not sure what it's actually called – watch the video below to better understand!). After that, they moved onto the obstacle course which included crawling through a tunnel, doing somersaults down a sloped wedge, and jumping over things. Lastly they worked with the gymnastics team on partners and group gymnastics. This included things like the kids standing in the hands of one of the academy boys as he laid flat on his back on the floor and lifted them up (kind of like a bench press but with the kid's feet in their hands). 

Stretching...

And more stretching...

At the end of the party, the kids were tired!

It was a lot of fun to watch all the kids participate. Caden even got to do some of the activities and he thought that was great fun! :) A good day was had by all!