{"id":2641,"date":"2013-05-18T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2013-05-18T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:44:59","slug":"how-we-get-them-off-the-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2641","title":{"rendered":"how we get them off the couch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heh. Heh.<\/p>\n<p>Our 6 kids are involved in a program called Acrofitness. \u00c2\u00a0It combines floor acrobatics (and\/or dancing) with fitness moves.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the name.<\/p>\n<p>There are a variety of classes, and all of the kids have found the one that really fits their interests.<\/p>\n<p>Abbey takes hip-hop&#8230;Marley is in advanced tumbling (since she&#8217;s had years of gymnastics in FL)&#8230;Payton and Ethan take a Free Running class (also called Parkour; google that one)&#8230;Lainey and Dylan take beginning tumbling.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, Acro had their Fitness Festival. \u00c2\u00a0A recital of sorts, where all the classes did a special routine to show what they&#8217;ve learned during the last year. \u00c2\u00a0Combining all of the individual classes with all of the teams (those are audition-based that do about 40 shows during the year at various events), we watched 45 routines. \u00c2\u00a0Abbey&#8217;s group was #19, the littles were #26.<\/p>\n<p>The boys and Marley opted out&#8230;which was fine, since you&#8217;ve gotta purchase the event attire and it ain&#8217;t cheap.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/__z.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The littles being goofy, while we waited for Abbey to get ready to go.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>These aren&#8217;t great pics, but it&#8217;s the best we could do given all the heads in front of us.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Loved their routine&#8230;their instructor, Heather, is so good (she&#8217;s the dark haired gal in the white suit in the first pic)<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Lainey and Dylan both did great&#8230;and D loved being in front of that many people. \u00c2\u00a0Ham.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>They&#8217;re on the right end.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/__z.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>L and D with their fav coach, Mr. Joey. \u00c2\u00a0He&#8217;s SO good with them and they adore him.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>All the kids will enjoy their summer break, but we&#8217;ll all be back at Acro again next year. \u00c2\u00a0Three nights per week. \u00c2\u00a0Flipping, jumping, and dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh. 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Abbey takes hip-hop&#8230;Marley is in advanced tumbling (since she&#8217;s had years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbey","category-yu-hai","category-lainey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}