A gymnast I am not!
Tonight the three of us played a game where you roll a large, colorful cube and pick a card of the corresponding color.  The card tells you to do different things like: find something green, spin around in circles, sing a song, etc.  Well, I ended up picking "Turn a somersault."  Mike and I both laughed.  Alex and Mike backed up under the desk to make plenty of room for me, nice.  (Ed. Note: We HID under Alex's desk. When she started rocking forward there was no telling where she would end up! -Mike)

When was the last time I did a somersault?  It really didn't seem like it would be hard until I tried to get in to position.  The carpeted floor seemed way too hard for my sensitive head, so I put a pillow down.  I kept tucking my head and thinking, okay, I'm going to do this, but was easier said than done.  I was scared I was going to hurt my neck, head, or just could not figure out how I was going to flip my fat you know what.  It would be a piece of cake if I was a petite little thing.

I asked Alex for a demonstration and I really studied him...what a little show off :-)  He made it look so simple, "Like this, mommy."  I even made Mike do it and he didn't seem to have a hard time.  It took a lot of attempts (like jumping into a game of Double Dutch, or something), but I finally did it.  It was quite comical, I must say.  I'm glad there wasn't a "handstand" or "cartwheel" card or I'd really be in trouble.

Alex is really good at doing somersaults so we decided to have him do as many as he could in a row in the hallway.  He did 8 somersaults one after the other...impressive, huh??