Old team

Continuing my 30 days in a row posting that M3 started, I'm going to delay talking about Brandon until he comes home after spring break. Hopefully I'll be able to get some better pictures of him to use in my post.
Yesterday the girls and I went to a friends house. It's one of Maddie's team mates. J has been with Maddie since we were at her first gym and moved with us to our new gym. Let me just say how much we love our new gym. It is clean, big, bright, friendly, no booster club(!), no crazy parents, coaches are awesome, they pray with the girls and the list goes on and on. Maddie and J have started training level 5. They were level 3 last fall and move up to prep op silver this winter. We thought they were going to be level 4 in the fall, but it looks like they will be level 5. They have almost all of the skills except for a kip on bars. None of the girls (there are 11) have it yet. I'm sure by the end of summer they will. They will have practice from 8:30-12:30 Monday - Friday so they will have plenty of time. The girls are really enjoying their time at gym. At the old gym they would whine and actually cry about going to practice. They were beginning to hate it. When we went to the new gym, they were completely different girls.
As much as we love the new gym, we were missing the girls from the old one. J's mom had the team over yesterday. We were missing 3 girls, but everyone had a blast. It was like they had never left each other. It was fun watching all of them show off with each other.
I'm glad J's mom did it and can't wait to do it again. We miss those girls.