U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!

So I don't know if I told you but I'm training for the 2028 Olympics. I heard they are being held in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and I feel like that would be great because all my friends and family could just jump in the car and drive down to see me.

So I'm getting up at 4:15am every morning and heading over to the local gym where I'm working hard on my training.

Don't mind the boys in the background. They are the hired help, brought in just to set up the mats and take them down. They're like a bunch of zoo animals.

Gold Medalist

So it started with the Olympics. Mom and I had the stomach flu and so we spent three straight days laying on the couch watching the Olympics. And that's when I fell in love with gymnastics.

So much so that we went to see the U.S. Gold Medal team at the United Center, where they performed some amazing gymnastics for us, and our seats were almost in the front row.

It was only natural that I sign up for gymnastics classes. So I go twice a week near our new house and here are a couple of my moves.

And since Mae and Stacey were bringing me to gymnastics Miss Maria (our teacher) fell in love with Mae and now she is in my class, too, with a bunch of four and five year olds. Here's Mae doing her thing.

And the Gold Medal Goes To...

So you may or may not have caught the women's gymnastics this past week. If you didn't, here's what you missed. Mae was in the Gold Medal finals for the floor routine.

Mae's floor routine is really intense, so I gave her the old rah-rah speech before she went out there...

And she was killing it halfway through even though she almost stepped off the mat...

And then about 3/4 of the way into it I seemed to have lost my wallet under the mat or something.

Either way, she took Gold and the Romanians, Russians and Croatians (yeah, who knew?!) went home unhappy yet again, to which we say, "who cares."