Kaite's Gymnastics Meet

A couple of weeks ago Kaite had her first gymnastics competition. This was the real thing with six other gyms coming in from around the area, there were so many kids! They split the meet up into two days and then into 5 different divisions. Kaite had 76 other girls competing in her time slot, it was a long meet but fun. She was so nervous but did great for her first one. She was miffed at me for forgetting to put glitter on her face....

Showing me her judges salute.

Since I videoed everything these are the snapshots of the video and are a little blurry.

She was up on bars first, she completed all her skills and didn't fall off once (a lot of other girls fell).

Then she was up on beam, she keeps her lines very clean and always has her toes pointed. She didn't fall off here either and most of the girls were, but you could tell she was super nervous.

Then floor, these pics didn't turn out as well, but this is her walk-over, toes still pointed. She completed her floor routine with her hair bow bouncing around and eventually falling out but she didn't let it distract her, stupid bow she doesn't have enough hair to keep it in but wanted to look like the other girls.

Since there were too many people and judges in the way I didn't get a clear shot of her vault. It really amazes me how much power she has for an eight year old. Her vaults were amazing and she scored an 8.5 on them, the average was in the 7's. I can't remember the rest of her scores, but nothing below a 7 on the other apparatuses.

Goofing around waiting for scores to come in.

She received her trophy and got three white ribbons and a red (for her vaults), way to go Kaite! I was watching her scores and she scored pretty high even higher than the older girls (they had them broke down by age too).

Posing with some teammates, ignore the place numbers they were just shooting a pic.

She loves her trophy and I am so proud of her. Next year when she jumps up to the real team she gets the long sleeve leo and the matching warm-up suit with her name on it. I thought these leos were so cute though! She did awesome and I am really impressed with how she is progressing, and check out her muscles on her arms!

 

After the meet we went to Costa Vida for some of their awesome nachos, Kaite LOVED them! Me and Ky found out it was nice to be out with just the older two, it was a big change.