Sock Olympics

We’ve been watching quite a bit of the Olympics lately. It’s all very exciting! We have seen some pretty impressive feet at work but, sadly, not many socks are involved in the winning of medals. It’s kind of hard to imagine when we think of all of the adventures we’ve had with Liz that definitely were enhanced by the presence of socks – (especially socks as wonderful as us!)

We have become so inspired by the Olympic Games that we decided we needed to do something more with ourselves and take up a sport. We’ve enjoyed watching the swimming the most so far but, unfortunately, swimmers don’t wear socks. Maybe someday they will have magic swimming socks like their special swimsuits! Either way, as much as we’ve begged, Liz still refuses to take us to the pool with her when she goes early in the morning. Watching swimming on TV and then seeing Liz when she returns and smelling the chlorine odors that drift from her swimsuit as it hangs on the rack…someday, someday.

Well, we still had a problem – what sport would we really excel in? Finally, we found the answer…


Oh, yes. Rhythmic gymnastics! Sadly rhythmic gymnastics is a sport not widely followed. It is often overshadowed by, well, I guess we would call it regular gymnastics. Now, we’ve tried some of those fancy moves with the help of our trusty trampoline but, living in an attic, with peaked ceilings, running and jumping and tumbling is NOT recommended.



Now that we mention it, there is a trampoline category in the Olympics but again, our living arrangements prevent us from pursuing that.
To begin our rhythmic gymnastics training we had to find a way to move gracefully with a ball. I think maybe we need a smaller ball before we can make it to the Olympics though.


Next we pestered Liz until she made us the famous ribbon-on-a-stick thing. We experimented with several different ways of holding on to it. We finally settled with…

It is very graceful, no? (Didn’t know we could do a French accent, did you?)

After hours and hours of practice one thing became very clear – we need better equipment. To get better equipment, like all sports stars, we need a sponsor. Liz suggested Oliver’s. I don’t think that Oliver’s sponsorship will make us more graceful – bigger maybe, but not more graceful.

Watch for us in four years…2012 Olympics, here we come!