Thursday, February 20, 2020

Another Gymnastics Meet!

Mardi Gras 2/9/2020

Floor 8.6

Vault 8.5

Bars 9.025

Beam 8.6 


AA 34.725 


And professional pictures!





Fun with teammates before the start.









So elegant 



Toes pointed all the time







Beam! 







Ally came in 5th in bars and 8th All Around. 

And her team came in 1st place!!!

Ally was so happy to place all around! 

Her old teammates from her old gym were there too. Caroline and Hannah.

Lots of trophies!


And pizza for lunch with lots of teammates after the meet.




And the next day before school. 

Saturday, February 1, 2020

January 2020 Recap

Please scroll back thru January as I have made some additional posts for the month.
This is a summary post.




















Taking Selfies is a as always a thing. And Ally is getting resistant to me taking pictures of her - it only took 13 years so I've started taking pictures off her phone and social media!





The 3 pictures above are from school. They staged these pictures in the morning before school. 
Clearly she has some silly friends. Luis is the boy giving the picture his middle fingers. He has been a nemesis of Ally for several years now. But finally in 7th grade he is getting more tolerable. 

 Saturday morning sunrise on the way to 7AM gymnastics practice.

















Ally and I took Kavi to a college gymnastics meet and met up with Eliana and Dahlia at the meet. It was a fun way to spend a Saturday night and its really fun how these girls like to spend time together in and out of the gym.



The largest donut we have ever seen.



A quick before school picture to show off some earrings that her friend Carly made. 

The 7th grade concert happened. Ally was in the second row so I could not see her. I saw her arm moving as the music played so I guess she did alright. 
Proof that she was there!



Pet pictures are always fun.




















And in some news. Ally has a new boyfriend. His name is Max. That picture was taken off Tik Tok. They started spending time together in the Bahamas. He competes for the boys team at the same gym as Ally.

Below - after practice I took them to Shake Shack to eat and hang out. That is them walking into the restaurant.

Typically they text daily - and hang out for a couple of hours on the weekend. Boys are an adjustment for Becky and me and we are trying to give Ally the space to mature and grow up. But sometimes we miss little Ally.








































Little Ally - from 12 years ago. WOW how did time fly by so quickly.

Still love her just as much and I am still so very lucky I get to be her mommy.

Monday, January 27, 2020

Manhattan Classic Day 3 in NYC

Actually it was just the morning in NYC but we packed in a couple hours of fun.



A family selfie before the adventures started. 



We took an Uber to Rockefeller Plaza. We had planned on checking out FAO Schwartz but it was not open even though online it said it was. So we looked at the skaters and I suggested a trip up to the Top of the Rock. The girls enthusiastically agreed.













It was pretty cool we could see all the way to the Statue of Liberty




















We stopped at a Milk Bar food truck for hot cocoa. It was pretty cold at the top of the Top of the Rock and the girls needed to warm up.
On our walk to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) we saw St Patrick’s Cathedral!
And 2 blocks later we were inside MoMA on a quest to see Starty Night by Van Gogh and some of Monet’s Water Lily paintings. 


It was amazing to see this in person. The texture of the paint was incredible. 


We were in a room FULL of Picasso’s and the girls were so tired they just sat for a bit.


In another room was Dancing Women by Matisse. The girls were so embarrassed by the nudity they refused to be photographed with it. Becky had no such qualms. I was surprised at how large it was.




This is a self portrait by Frida Kahlo. She wrote a caption to the painting at the top in Spanish and Ally read it in Spanish and then told me what it meant. 


Finally the Monet Water Lily paintings.
They were HUGE and amazing.






Train ride back to Boston.



Ally before school on Monday. In her new high top Nike sneakers and new black Nike hoodie. Gotta love 13 year old fashion.

It was a great weekend.