Kate the Cheerleader

Our neighbor/volunteer nanny, Mary, is a cheerleader for Maple Mountain High School. (She's going to be a sophomore this year.) MMHS had some kind of mini cheer camp, and Mary asked if Kate wanted to go. I said I was sure she would, but since she currently had a nasty ear infection, she probably wouldn't be up to it. Then the day the camp started Mary's mom called and asked again if Kate wanted to go. She said that it was a fundraiser and she would have to pay the money eventually anyway, so she just went ahead and paid for Kate to go. She even offered to drive Kate to and from the high school. Since Kate was feeling better I said sure. So Kate went to cheer camp, just like a big girl. It was 2.5 hours long for 3 days. Saturday afternoon they had a performance after the class part. I laughed until I cried watching Kate. It was so funny. She was the only one just standing there during the cheer and not doing anything. Then she would do a move every now and again during the dance. Apparently I was so busy laughing/crying that I didn't notice that my phone wasn't recording. I thought I had taped the whole thing, and it turns out I only taped 2 seconds. I was so mad! I really wanted to be able to show that video to her when she got older. (Nate said it was her first and last cheer performance.) Anyway, a week or two later Kate just starts chanting this cheer in her room. I had no idea she had actually learned it! She and the boys do it all the time now. Hilarious.