Mommy and Me Gymnastics Just got Real!

Naturally I am a competitive person. I know to stay away from video games because like any teenage boy I could sit there for hours shooting people up until I win the entire war single handedly in Call of Duty, then proudly brag about doing it on the internet. I want to be the best. At sports, at work, at school, in all I do I want to do better then the guy next to me. However my competitiveness sometimes gets the best of me. It’s a hard lesson to learn to let go. I personally get mean. I do get carried away, mostly when I am provoked though. I am going to say it, my poor children I kind of pity them for having me as a mother. I will be that parent screaming at the top of her lungs at sporting events and possibly getting kicked out of games. It may come to my children lying about their games being cancelled one day so I don’t show up. It has already started.

Mommy and Me Gymnastics just got real.

 My daughter is two and I have signed her and myself up for parent child gymnastics. She loves rolling around and swinging from the bar in my closet so I thought this will be a fun way for her to get her energy out. She did it the previous year, which she enjoyed but she was the only one in the class. This year things changed. Day one, three girls including my daughter Brielle were in the class, one was 18 months old just toddling around. The other little girl was three. Upon entering the class waiting to begin I notice the three year old girl had an older sister, probably about 8 waiting to join the next class for older gymnasts. I also noticed her mother and father sitting there. The three year old was in a leotard matching her older sisters, and I thought what? This is baby gymnastics but ok, next week we are stepping it up, the sweatpants were out! Already I was getting competitive. Then class began. As these were small children they had 3 large different colored rubber circles for each student to sit on. I asked my daughter which color she would like and she chose green. She ran over to the green dot and sat while the 3 year old girl and her mother moved to the blue and the baby to the yellow. We did some stretching and warm up exercises which Brielle did so great at the teacher praised her a couple of times (already I was feeling so proud) then the teacher instructed us to start at the beams. The year prior Brielle had took an interest in the bars and proved to do well on it. So she asked me if we could go to the bars. The mother of the 3 year old overheard her ask and looked at me confused then said "oh bar as in over there, not bar as in for beverages" Uh yeah, like I take my two year old to a bar . . . this lady. We went to the beam where we were to start instead. This lady had her little girl walk across the beam clearly she had been doing it before practicing with her sister probably, she did well. As Brielle stepped on the beam she was wobbly and stepped off a few times. The woman looked over at me and said "Maybe she has been at the bar" Really?  Then she asked her daughter to walk across the beam on her tip toes. Ok. Ok. I said lets go to the bars Bri, come on lets go. BOOM my baby has skills too and some serious arm strength at two, wanna show off lady lets show off, mommy and me class just got serious. The teacher then asked the children to find their same colored circle again. Brielle told me hers was green and ran to it. While the other mother proceeded to ask her daughter what color her circle was over and over. She didn’t know, which was fine shes still a baby. So as I walked by I leaned down and sweetly said hi hunny, your dot, its blue.  Then I smiled at her mother and sat nicely behind my child. I can’t wait until next class.