It's a Girl!

The baby arrived this morning. And we officially make the switch over Monday morning at 6:20am. I'm looking forward to 20 minute lessons. I think shorter lessons, more often and more practice will have to be the way Lexes' skating goes as she gets older. After the past couple of days the possibility of her pulling off all five jumps and both spins without falling seems practically impossible. You know its bad luck for her to skate well right before a competition.. with less than 2 weeks to go... we're getting into that bad luck zone. Generally, if my daughter can pull off her program effortlessly she will get into her head it is easy and she doesn't have to try. Then she will completely blow the competition. If she skates poorly she will work harder prior to the competition and pull it off on competition day. After 4 1/2 years of competitive skating - I know how she works. Still - oh God how I would like to see this program done well before competition day. I really would. Probably not going to happen. And at this point seeing it come together in the next week would be seriously bad luck. She needs to fight to stick all six landings (somebody can tell me if that counts as four landings and not six). Also not fall coming out her spins either. It will come together... it will. I have the job over the next two weeks of making her believe that she can do it. She can.. of course she can. Can she do it all at the same time? Yes. In the next 2 weeks. We'll see. And if she doesn't we just put it behind us & start working towards state games.