Here are a couple of videos from Anna’s last gymnastics class here in TN.  She learned so much there and has improved SO MUCH in the 6 months she’s been there.  We’ll miss Ms. Tammy…it’s gonna be hard to find another coach as awesome as she is.  Here are the videos:

Anna colored a picture for me and asked me how to write “Elizabeth” so I told her and she wrote it!  She did all the letters by herself, though I helped with the “B” loops and I explained how to do the “Z” and put my finger on the paper to show her where to draw the diagonal line to.  But other than those, she did it all herself!

Here’s a video I got today of Anna doing more front flips on the trampoline.  She’s landing all the way around on her butt now.  She’s getting braver!

I snapped a bunch of pics of Anna jumping on the trampoline and then had fun with them in Photoshop.  Click to see the full size version.

(She’s getting pretty close on that kickover.  She did others that were really close that I didn’t get pics of.)

…and one more cute pic from today:

You can see all the pictures HERE.

Caption from the video: In gymnastics this past week, Anna was taught how to do a little jump forward roll into the pit. Well, she decided to get on the trampoline and do the same thing with no prompting from me! (I promise!) She also did the closest thing to a backward roll that I’ve seen her do on a flat surface. She can sometimes do them down the incline mat at gymnastics, but she did a few really close ones on the trampoline! Anna is 3 years, 11 months in this video.

I’m trying to get through the bazillion photos I took in Michigan while we were there for my brother-in-law, Steve’s wedding.  Anna was the flowergirl in the wedding so I got a bunch of great photos of her.  This one, I think, is my favorite.  It’s not posed (for the most part) and her smile (laugh) is genuine and not forced like it almost always is when I command her to smile…  :-D  I just love this one.  I’ll have all the pics up on my gallery site soon.

Love this photo I took today…just wanted to share.

Anna has decided she wants curly hair, much to my dismay.  I have super curly hate and hate it.  I’ve always wanted straight hair and straighten mine from time to time when I’m not feeling too lazy.  So I love the fact that Anna has straight hair.  Not sure where she got it from..definitely not me!

Anyway, I bought a thing of curlers and put them in her hair last night.  I probably shouldn’t have used the smallest ones in the pack, nor should I have rolled them all the way to her scalp because when I took them out this morning her hair was so curly that it was about 2 inches above her shoulders….and she has LONG hair!  I was able to pull it down some and it turned out pretty cute.  Next time though, I think I’ll use bigger rollers and not roll it up all the way.  Here are some pics.

Please ignore the lack of a shirt in the last few pics.  She was in between wardrobe changes..  :-D  Cute though, right?

At Anna’s gymnastics class today I noticed that she wasn’t listening very well or doing what she was supposed to be doing.  It was the first time in awhile that there were more than 2 or 3 kids in her class…there were 5 today..so I don’t know if that’s the case or if she was getting a little bored.  In any case, she really didn’t listen very well at all which was very frustrating.  However, I did notice that she seem pretty far ahead of the other kids in her class.  The only time she needed help with anything was on her backwards roll down the incline mat and her instructor asked her several times to demonstrate something for the other kids, which was really cool.

Throughout the whole class I debated with myself on whether to ask her instructor if Anna could go ahead and move up to the Preschool 3 class.  I think they generally don’t move the kids until the end of the session, but the session just started (week 3 of an 8 week session) and this is our last one before we move, so I thought maybe they’d make an exception.  Plus, Anna does seem to be doing pretty well and I want her to continue to learn new things.  So at the end of the class I started to ask her instructor and before I could get the question out she told me to go ahead and bring her to the Preschool 3 class next week, that she watched Anna and she thinks Anna definitely needs to be moved up.  So YAY!  I didn’t even really have to ask.  The Preschool 3 class is the one I guess she would have skipped if she would have been able to start the pre-team at the beginning of next session.

Here’s a video of Anna doing handstands and cartwheels in the living room today.  They’re getting better.  The last cartwheel in the video is pretty good, I think!  :)

(Sorry about the poor video quality.  I recorded it with my Blackberry.)

I took pictures of some of Anna’s recent artwork (well, ok some is from March, so not *that* recent) and thought I’d share.

Here are two we did today:

Here are some other ones that I added to her art album as well: