Bear Country Meet at USU

We dropped Sadie and Dylan off with Lyndy before we went to the meet because I didn’t want to deal with them being bored at the meet the whole time.  Lyndy was kind enough to watch them for us.  My mom drove up from Salt Lake to watch the meet, so that was cool that she was in town during one of them.

This is the only meet where I had someone else there to help so I brought my big camera and got some shots of her performing.

March out

 Vault- the vault at this level is really dumb.  They just do a handstand and fall.  They're supposed to stay stick straight, and who knows what else they judge on.

 Bars

Beam

Floor

Kylee did well at the meet.  Unfortunately she was placed in the 9-10 year-old group so she was competing against girls that were older than her.  At the time, I didn’t understand how it worked.  I still don’t.  But I guess the group they are put in depends on how many girls are competing total.  They don’t let 20 girls in one age group and only 5 in another.  At least that’s what was explained to me by another mom later on.  So it seems as if they split them a little differently and Kylee ended up in the older group.  It was a major bummer for us and here’s why.  Though Kylee did great, taking 3^rd place overall and 3^rd in a couple of the events, Lexi (who was in the younger group) took 1^st overall.  We were thrilled for Lexi.  She has gone to every meet I think.  And her parents have told me that she really wanted to get first place.  Of course every girl wants to get first at some point.  Anyway, we were really happy for Lexi.  But Kylee actually scored higher than her in two of the events and had a higher overall score so if she would’ve been put in the 6-8 year-old group like she belonged, she would’ve taken first overall.  Major bummer.  For awhile I thought it was somebody’s mistake that landed her in the older group.  For some reason they have had her birthday year wrong a few times, making it look like she’s 11.  So I though they must’ve still had it wrong.  So I was bothered that she didn’t get her first place that she deserved.  But when another mom explained the way they split it, that made more sense and even though I’m still bummed, at least I know it wasn’t because of an error.  And she scored 3^rd overall against all these 9 and 10 year-old girls!

Her scores were

V- 9.1 (6^th)

UB- 8.75 (3^rd)

BB- 9.0 (3^rd)

F- 9.0 (four-way tie for 3rd, she's back there I promise)

All Around 3^rd Place

Idaho Elite took 1st place Team!

She did really great!  It was nice that Ryan was able to come see a meet, and at one of our favorite places!

Her meet was at 11:00 so I had given her a granola bar and a bag full of peanut m&ms to tide her over.  After we left the meet we decided to pick up some sandwiches for Ryan and Kylee and I since we hadn’t had a real lunch.  Kylee didn’t want to eat.  She said her stomach hurt and she couldn’t eat any of her sandwich.  I was bugged.  This is why I don’t usually give her junk food for a snack.  Peanut m&ms are not lunch.

We met my dad and Carol at a park in Logan and ate lunch and visited while the kids played.  Kylee rode the Ripstick a little, but then came and sat down because her tummy hurt, then she’d go try something else only to come back because of her stomach.  Then she started saying she felt like she was going to throw up and she looked quite green.  It was about then when we were getting ready to hit the road and make the drive back home.  I gave Kylee a brown paper bag we had just in case she did lose it.  She rarely vomits, but she wasn’t doing well and it’s better to be safe than sorry.  Not 15 minutes into the drive, she lost it.  That’s when I realized that it was probably not the m&ms, but the stomach flu that Ryan and Dylan had both had already.  Yuck!  And how crazy that she was perfectly fine during her meet?  She threw up one more time an hour later, and then again as we were pulling into our house.  And I think once at home that night too.  She spent Sunday resting but was really just fine, and then was back to normal by Monday, though the sight of m&ms made her a little queasy (lol).

A few days later Sadie started complaining of a stomach ache.  By this time we knew the drill.  We had a bowl ready and we caught it in time.  She was better right after she threw up and by the next day was back to normal.

Dylan had it the week before.  He came home from school looking green and saying he didn’t feel well.  Ryan happened to be home so I left Dylan home and took Kylee to gymnastics.  When I got home I found Dylan on the couch with his shirt wet and in his hands, and a bowl full of puke next to him.  He said he threw up and got some on his shirt and he called for us but nobody came.  So he went to the bathroom and cleaned up his shirt by himself.  Ryan was outside with the other kids and hadn’t heard him.  Dylan is no stranger to throw-up.  I had to laugh that he cleaned himself up.  He didn’t clean up the couch where he missed the bowl though :-/  This is turning into a really gross detailed post, isn’t it?  It’s just rare that our house gets taken out by the stomach flu. 

Dylan was just fine after he threw up.  After Kylee and Sadie came down with it I figured it was just a matter of time before I did.  Kaden and I were the only ones spared.  But I started feeling twinges in my stomach and paranoia would have me thinking I should climb in bed and take it easy.  But no, I never got sick.  Thank Heavens!  Because I got super sick a little later with that sinus/throat/ear thing.