Saturday, August 16, 2008

Olympic Fever!

Last weekend when the Opening Ceremonies were on, we let Tyler stay up a little late and enjoy the show. He was so enthralled by the fireworks, the light drums, and the acrobats! All through the show he kept asking "when are they going to do gymnastics?". It was difficult for him to grasp the concept that what we were watching marked the beginning of the Olympics for the next two weeks. Tyler did not make it to the Parade of Countries with all the athletes, but he has seen his fair share of them in the past 8 days!

Since last Friday, we have watched as much of the games that we are capable of! With modern television and technology, we have even DVR'd certain events that are on after our bedtimes and caught repeat performances on the Internet! Tyler loves the swimming, diving, beach volleyball, gymnastics, basketball, and soccer. He has been very excited about the athletes winning their medals and claps after their performances!

While we were getting dressed this morning, I took this video of Tyler. He was so cute imitating the divers and gymnasts! Maybe we have a future medalist in the family! As a kid, I was lucky enough to attend the 1984 Olympics and maybe someday Tyler will be blessed with the same experience!

1 comments:

Pigtail Mama said...

Love it! Now that is diving I could handle, right into the bed. The water on the other hand, not so much! He has got some skills! He can participate in the summer Olympics in diving and the winter Olympics in hockey- what do you think?

We've gotten into them, too! I think it helps that there isn't anything else on, and that I used to swim in high school and always wished I could be even half as good as the Olympians!! :)