conquering the zip line

I've been doing a gynmastics class with Bennett every Thursday, and he loves it. He does the warmup, an obstacle course, and jumping on the trampoline. Bennett is a bit of teacher's pet, and always wants to do his stretching with Coach Paul. At the end of every class, Coach Paul sets up a zipline and the kids can take a little ride and drop into a pit of foam blocks. Bennett wanted to try it the first week, but when he finally got up to the platform, he was terrified. Coach Paul pushed him off the platform anyway, and Bennett was scared and talked about it for the next week - how he did the zipline, how he cried, how he said "help me Mommy." And then two weeks later, he told me that he wanted to do the zipline, climbed right up on the platform, and was so proud of himself. Ellen captured him conquering his fear on film - we were so proud of our little guy!

zip line! from Jessica Kyle on Vimeo.