Cheer is Real

The day after Peyton graduated from middle school, she has been fully immersed in Cheer Summer Camp.  Practices run every day (mostly from 6:45am-9am) and then sometimes they have a double session at night for four hours too. Then at the end of next week, she kicks it into high gear with 12 plus hour days of cheer camp at a junior college, and evenings filled with bonding with her teammates doing scavenger hunts, hanging out at a teammate's cool house and going out to dinner.

HC JV Cheer Team (P=second row, third from left)

She is exhausted but happy! In addition, she has added a tumbling class to her week so every Wednesday night she attends that as well as her swim practices/meets (Ruth Lake only since she's quitting swim and I can barely get her to go to practice). 

She comes home sore from lifting girls up into stunts (for hours), learning new cheer dances and practicing her jumps. She's made friends with some of the Varsity (older) cheerleaders and she's always telling me what I need to order for her from Amazon or Lululemon. 

Last week, it was underarm sweat pads because sweating through your shirt is embarrassing (cue the eye roll), then a specific white Lululemon tank that she needed because everyone else was wearing these when the outfits (yes, each day they have different themed outfits) called for a white tank top. She had me order a Santa hat too for some skit that her cheer family (sounds like sorority life) was doing during camp and she's told me she deserves new cheer shoes but I should wait to order those til closer to the season starting. 

I'm beginning to understand why they say girls are so expensive! All of this is in addition to the $500 plus dollars that I spent for her cheer camp outfits and fees and that is totally separate from the school cheer fees. 

But she's having a great time and is so happy she's almost done with swim!