Last week while on bars, Kadee's thumbnail (on the side where it connects to the side of her thumb) pulled loose. Her HC told her that a sign of a true gymnast is rough, tough hands, that always has blisters, callauses, rips, tears, ect.
Well tonight when I picked her up, she comes running over to me.."Momma..I got my first rip!" Now since reading on here I knew what a rip was. (I felt my chest swell with pride that I did NOT have to ask just what she was talking about this time..lol). She shows me her hands and sure enough, she has 3 or 4 small blisters..and one the edge was just starting to pull away from her hand.
I didn't know for sure how to respond. So I just simply said, "that's great baby". Her HC walks over to me and says. "Now Momma, having rips in the gymnastic's world is bragging rights". She smiled, winked at Kadee and walked away.
So, I guess my 5 yr old BABY girl officaly has gymnast's hands.
I tried to take a picture of her hand, but she was busy on the phone with her grandmother, trying to explain why it's a good thing to have sores on your hands..lol. So the pictures are'nt the best, but if you look real close you can see the blisters. The one up closest to her middle finger is the one that had JUST started to "rip".
Well tonight when I picked her up, she comes running over to me.."Momma..I got my first rip!" Now since reading on here I knew what a rip was. (I felt my chest swell with pride that I did NOT have to ask just what she was talking about this time..lol). She shows me her hands and sure enough, she has 3 or 4 small blisters..and one the edge was just starting to pull away from her hand.
I didn't know for sure how to respond. So I just simply said, "that's great baby". Her HC walks over to me and says. "Now Momma, having rips in the gymnastic's world is bragging rights". She smiled, winked at Kadee and walked away.
So, I guess my 5 yr old BABY girl officaly has gymnast's hands.
I tried to take a picture of her hand, but she was busy on the phone with her grandmother, trying to explain why it's a good thing to have sores on your hands..lol. So the pictures are'nt the best, but if you look real close you can see the blisters. The one up closest to her middle finger is the one that had JUST started to "rip".