You've got to be kidding me.

Caelin is doing Upward Cheerleading this winter.  I'm not so sure about the whole cheer thing...but I think its good that she is branching out and trying something besides CYT.  So her first practice she comes home with these:

These are her pom poms.  Seriously.  No, for real.  I had to sit there and separate and twist all of these little plastic ribbon type thingies.  By hand.

It took forever.

But its done.  I don't know if its right...but whatever.  I can't be the only mom who didn't know what she was doing/waited too long to get started and was scrambling to get them done before the next practice.  And so far...I don't think she's loving the cheer thing.  Of course we don't even watch sports so I don't think she even totally 'gets' it.  Not that I want her watching what the 'professional' cheerleaders do...since I don't think it has much at all to do with cheering anymore.  I'm thinking that maybe once they actually start doing games, she might think that is exciting.