Olympic Hopeful

A couple days ago I recorded women's gymnastics and had the kids watch it with me. I thought that they might think it was really cool. As we were watching they were trying their own flips & somersaults around the room. James started bragging that he could do that stuff easily because he was the best in the world and the best EVER!! I was holding one of the girls and not paying much attention to the kids, when I looked up to see James do a flying twirl off the post at the end of my bed. He started to scream so I ran to see if everything was OK. When he had stopped crying enough to talk he said, "Mom, I'm not the bestest!". He started to cry again in utter devastation. I realized that the only thing hurt was his pride. He really thought he could do that better than Shawn or Nastia. His Olympic dreams are shattered now because even though I have offered to put him in gymnastics he refuses because he can't do it. I keep trying to convince him that you have to learn before you do but it seems to be a concept that this 4 year old can't grasp. That kid cracks me up.