Caroline's First Aerial Silks Recital

Caroline has been working HARD for the last year on her strength and flexibility. We talked with Sabrina and worked it out to have a small family recital while the big kids were home over Christmas. It was so much fun!

Caroline and Sabrina.

Sabrina is a great teacher and we've been happy

to have her lead Caroline through beginning silks,

lyra, contortion, and a little bit of canes.

Both so flexible!

C came up with four routines: one on the lyra and three on silks.

If you just want the highlights, here the best parts:

Isn't she awesome???

If you'd like to see everything,

here you go!

This was her first routine on the silks,

including double footlocks and rolls.

Oh my gosh.

Her flexibility astounds me.

Her other routine on the silks starts out with 

a little bit of contortion at the beginning.

Then she climbs up and does a big slack drop!

My favorite!

Her final silks routine has an inverted crochet rotational drop.

So cool and intricate.

I love how Sabrina sneaks out to spin her. :)

And, finally, her lyra routine.

I don't know the names of everything she does, but I know these:

mermaid, inverted full split, pike, back balance, and bird's nest. flare.

So impressed with her.

When the recital was done, we had a little bit of

time for family circus stunts!

B on the trapeze

Dubs on the lyra

When Sabrina even got ANDREW on the lyra,

that was the best! Are we ready to go on tour, or what? 

The family that plays together...

Sabrina even taught B how to do a climb!

And she got Whitney into the splits.

Seriously, these kids!

A little snippet of all three of them.

Here's B climbing to the top.

I guess if you can climb rocks,

you can climb silks???

We also tried a little partner acro.

Such a fun experience to celebrate C and share 

as a family! Loved it!