Check Zoey out climbing the rope in her gymnastics class the other day!!
She is interesting, although probably not unlike many of us, in the fact that she is very competitive, but careful in what she chooses to be competitive about. Later on in the class they climbed up on one of the high bars and just hung. They were seeing who could do it the longest. Zoey got up there and hung, and hung, and hung... You could see in her face, she was not going to give up!! The other girls fell off and she still hung. She even got her teacher out there to compete against her!! Ross and I were very proud, we must say!! I wish I could have captured her face on camera... Sheer determination!! But with new things that she is a little unsure of, she quickly shies away from. It's that fear of being a beginner and not being immediately successful at, that we struggle with. I think she has great potential for many things, it is just hard for us to get over the initial hump of being new and needing to learn. It's interesting how she has transitioned from a child without reservations, to being aware of her capabilities and then already using that awareness to make decisions. How quickly they grow and become independent individuals, right before our eyes!!
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