The Olympics Are Here!!

I'm an Olympic junkie. I love pretty much every event in the Summer and Winter Olympics! When Noelle was just five weeks old the 2006 Winter Olympics started and we even enjoyed watching all the events, even curling in the wee hours of the morning while nursing! The best part is that I'm not ashamed to admit I looked up the rules for curling and really got into the game. Who wouldn't like watching the most unfit athletes (seriously, not one of them seemed to have any muscle tone and looked like your typical mathlete clad in awesome jumpsuits!) brooming shiny granite stones down a sheet of ice? The intense concentration on The Lead's (oh yeah, I know the player's positions) face as he ever so gently released the stone was captivating! I gotta get on a curling team!

When I was little my sister, Charlotte, and I were die heart gymnastics fans, as I'm sure most little girls are. We would take pillows and run them along the hallway for our balance beam and score our routines. We also competed in the double floor exercise. I, being the bossy older and controlling sister, created the intense routines! We had many lifts with high difficulty and very intricate skills in our routines. It was so much fun and those times were some of my fondest memories. Mom and Dad, I know you remember our incredibly fantastic routines we made you watch over and over! Add a comment about it, please!!!

I have been so excited about these Olympics and started talking to Noelle about them. She decided that today she was going to be an "Olympic Jumper". Max was christened our "Olympic puller upper" and "sister chaser".
I think I'm going to have to make some medals for us to wear. These next 17 days I'm going to be truly in love with the DVR. I'm sure Tom will appreciate it too, because he won't have to watch the events that really don't interest him. I know that synchronized swimming, men's diving, and men's gymnastics are among his favorites, so we will be enjoying those events together!