Olympics

Isaac and I are huge Olympic fans (summer and winter). We love the competition, athleticism, effort, and excellence. We watch jealously and exclaim over all the athletes' feats, accomplishments, and muscles. We're also inspired by the patriotism and unity.

We've never let Ellie watch television before, but we decided that these values are worth passing on to her (and we really want to watch it ourselves). We've let her watch a couple of the trials now, and we've discovered some interesting things.

Gymnastics are her favorite so far (expected - they're pretty cool). She likes track and field better than swimming (also fairly expected). But her favorite event of all so far has been the steeplechase! It's the weirdest thing; I wish I knew how they came up with it. It's about two miles around the track while jumping over high hurdles, and one of the hurdles has a huge puddle after it so the runners land in the water. Ellie is obsessed with the "water jump." She also thinks hurdles and the high jump are pretty cool. I can't wait until we can share the real Olympics with her.

We taught her to cheer "Go USA!" Then she started running around the house yelling, "Jew! Ess! A! Jew! Ess! A!" (Don't worry. We corrected her.)