Mimi has been on the team one full year now. It just seems longer though. Maybe because she has been doing gymnastics since she was 4. Last year Labor Day in Black Diamond was her very first parade ever.
She really hates her leo and cried all morning long. "I wish the parade was yesterday", cry, cry, cry "I wish the parade was tomorrow" followed by more crying. They purposely make the competition and parade leos a smidgen tighter than the practice ones so that when the girls go to do their stunts nothing and I mean nothing is showing.
She also detests being a "twerp" as the girls are affectionately called by their teammates. Can't be helped though I tell her. She comes from short people. Even Elsie is a smidgen taller than she is now. I told her that the upside of being short is that she gets to be in the front and hold the banner and won't have to do any stunts down the street. That made her smile. I think that Elsie may have been a bit jealous of Mimi though because in the past it was always the other way around and Elsie loves being in the front. I say this because Elsie had made mention that half way down the parade route she was going to trade places with Mimi. That did not happen.
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