Second Grade

Sof is having a fantastic year in second grade.  She loves the non-fiction focus in reading and writing, and of course loves all her teachers.  I love that her teacher takes so many pictures and posts them for us see.  I love catching a glimpse of my girl at work.

I always donate a book to the classroom on the girls’ birthdays.  I wrap it all up, and they don’t know what title it is until they get to school and open it.  This year it was “Ada Twist, Scientist”!  I couldn’t resist this book!  It’s message is that girls can be scientists too, and asking questions is all you need to do to start being a scientist!  To top it off, Ada is a second grader!

One of the non-fiction studies they did was on owls.  Sof was totally into this.  She worked several days at home printing out pictures of owls and looking up facts.  Then she made it into a book.  Mrs. Giles let her share it with the whole class!

The whole class looks forward to Thursdays when we Skype with the Grace Care girls in Sri Lanka.  We’ve run into lots of issues.  We’ve had sessions that wouldn’t connect, miscommunication about time, technology issues on both sides, and one session where we had no sound and had to use a white board to communicate.  Still, the children are so patient and willing to try.  I just love it!

    

I would never have these pictures if it weren’t for Sof’s teacher.  I’m so thankful she takes these!

My “Kid” is an “Adult”

My beautiful girl turned 18.  Officially an adult.  I have officially kept a human alive from birth to adulthood, and she’s awesome.  Her and I were lamenting about the anticlimactic nature of 18.  We came up with the fact that she has now earned the legal right to vape, buy cigs, and get a tattoo.  I have now earned the legal right to kick her out of the house for any of the above. 

  

Ahhhh, to be 18 again.  She can tell you a million and one things wrong with these pictures.  Little does she know she will spend the rest of her life wishing she could look like this again.  I wish every day I still had bangs the size of South Dakota and pin tucked jeans.  No I don’t.

 

It’s hard enough for us to eat dinner together a couple nights a week, so celebrating a birthday is tricky.  On the actual day she had pom practice.  Sof and I picked up Tropical Smoothie for everyone and brought it to the end of practice. 

 

It was a huge hit and I’m so glad we did it!

Some of her besties came over to the house with cupcakes to celebrate!

We didn’t really have a family celebration.  There weren’t any gifts really, she got a computer that she shopped for, and there was no special dessert.  Still, we couldn’t let go of the yearly tradition of candles with Emmy.  We squeezed it in on a Sunday night because sometimes you just have make it happen.

 

Emily got her an elephant charm for her Pandora bracelet.  She loves it!

It’s a big deal that I actually had birthday candles.  Reused ones albeit, but definitely a big step up from the tealight candles I usually have to scrounge up for their bdays!

Happy Birthday Adrienne!  It’s a privilege to have raised you to this point, and an even bigger privilege to see what you will do with that now.  The sky’s the limit.  Love you baby.