Yesterday, Ethan and I got to attend Peek Week for Madeleine's P.E. class at school. The 1st graders have been doing a unit on gymnastics over the past month, and the unit ends with an individual performance by each child, with parents invited. Madeleine's routine was complete with cartwheels, stops to tuck her shirt into her pants and fix her ponytail, and lots of unique body postures:
Each child must come up with a way to get from apparatus to apparatus without walking. While many chose skipping, galloping, or hopping, Madeleine's choice was cartwheels. Apparently she decided that cartwheeling is the best way to get from here to there even outside of the P.E. room, because she decided to cartwheel herself along the sidewalk on our way home from school. Like, the whole way home. I guess cartwheeling is to Madeleine as galloping is to Julia. I wonder if Madeleine thinks of an imaginary family while she's engaged in Cartwheel Time.
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