practicing ice dance moves/rotational lifts

step one: toddler places feet around neck
step two: continue to demonstrate "look ma, no hands" for the judges
step three: after completion of at least one full rotation, secure partner's feet (to keep disaster of olympic proportions from occuring)
step four: body to body "spoon" position (note: must improve position here, the italian judges will be critical)


this is my family. this is also the trick daddy and baby attempted last weekend which resulted in a very unsettling boom, two scared parents, and a lot of crying. oh, and some ice. of course, until this morning, i didn't realize she had been HANGING BY THE STRENGTH OF HER OWN TINY FEET--i thought it happened while she and daddy were practicing their first (lower difficulty) lift; where evie hangs on with her hands.

why do i have the feeling that one way or another, summer or winter, this child is going to be an olympian?