Sunday, March 31, 2019
Girl Scout Cookie Time
This is your first year in Daisies and first time selling Girl Scout cookies and you did awesome! You were top seller for your troop and sold 167 boxes during the pre-order and 211 boxes overall! You participated in 2 cookie booths with your troop and did so well - it took you a few minutes to get rid of your nerves and break out of your shell, but once you did, you rocked it! Every person who walked into Lowe's heard, "Do you want to buy some Girl Scout cookies?" with a smile! :-)
Gymnastics
You've had a busy winter full of gymnastics in "Developmental 1". You had your first "mock" gymnastics competition meet in January and did awesome! You were really nervous leading up to it, but once you go there, you were fine. Grandma and Papa came in from Arizona to watch you, which was special. There was supposed to another gym participating, but for some reason it didn't work out for them to come, which I think was a good thing since this was your first "competition" experience with judges. You got red ribbons on floor, beam, and vault and a blue ribbon on bars! Bars are your favorite of all, so I was so happy you got a blue ribbon!
You've also had a conditioning challenge, where you are rated on how strong and flexible you are by rotating through different stations (rope climb, splits, pull ups, sit ups, etc.). And you had your second skills performance for the year. It's amazing how much you are learning and how much your skills have advanced since your last skills performance a few months ago.
You're working on your stride circle on the bar and you are getting really good at your dismount (your coach recently told you that you can start learning the level 2 bar routine, which you are so excited about). You're getting better at doing a cartwheel and handstand on the beam (practicing on the low beam right now). On the floor, you have learned how to do a bridge kick over and a back walkover and are also learning how to do a back handspring. These are all a bit harder for you because your back and shoulders are not quite as flexible as they need to be.
We are so proud of you and love to see you loving gymnastics!
You've also had a conditioning challenge, where you are rated on how strong and flexible you are by rotating through different stations (rope climb, splits, pull ups, sit ups, etc.). And you had your second skills performance for the year. It's amazing how much you are learning and how much your skills have advanced since your last skills performance a few months ago.
You're working on your stride circle on the bar and you are getting really good at your dismount (your coach recently told you that you can start learning the level 2 bar routine, which you are so excited about). You're getting better at doing a cartwheel and handstand on the beam (practicing on the low beam right now). On the floor, you have learned how to do a bridge kick over and a back walkover and are also learning how to do a back handspring. These are all a bit harder for you because your back and shoulders are not quite as flexible as they need to be.
We are so proud of you and love to see you loving gymnastics!
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| Gymnastics over the years: top left - 3 years old, top right - 4 years old, bottom left - 5 years old, bottom right - 6 years old |
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Tooth #4 and Tulip Twinkle
Your second top middle tooth was somewhat loose for a long time, but over the weekend, became very loose after eating an ice cream cone. All week you wiggled it over and over with your tongue, but the tooth would not come out (it was hanging by a thread).
On the last day of school before spring break, you were playing with your friends at recess, taking turns spinning on the green spinner on the playground. It was jammie day at school that day, so you were wearing your sleeping mask over your eyes while spinning so you couldn't see; suddenly, you felt something hit your mouth. Turns out, your friend Nora had her hand out and accidentally hit your mouth while you were spinning around. Your tooth popped out and fell into the playground mulch. You didn't even realize it had happened until you stuck your tongue to your tooth and realized it wasn't there any more! You said you were a little upset at first because you didn't know where the tooth was, but your friends all helped you find it.
You can't stop sticking your tongue in your big front gap now. Your other front tooth fell out months ago and the new tooth has not yet come in (the dentist says it's there, just up really high and taking its time to come down). We can see the new tooth under the gum for the one you just lost, so hopefully you're not toothless for too long (it sure makes it hard for you to eat and talk with no front teeth!).
You wrote a note to the tooth fairy and put it on your nightstand and put your tooth in your tooth pillow hanging from your headboard.
Your note said, "Hi Tooth Fairy. I lost my tooth! Someone accidentally knocked it out. It feels really weird. What's your name? Mine is Graecyn. Bye." Then you put a bunch of puppy stickers on it and drew a picture of your tooth pillow and added "This is my tooth pillow, not the sleeping mask" (because the pillow was hanging up with all of your sleeping masks).
When you woke up the next morning, you immediately ran downstairs to get me so that I could look with you to see if the tooth fairy had come. Sure enough the tooth fairy came in the night, took your tooth and left a dollar (that she rolled up and taped shut with some of your washi tape!...she left a few glitter sprinkles on it too).
The tooth fairy did write down her name on the paper with the pen you left out for her. Her name is Tulip Twinkle.
You were pretty excited!!
On the last day of school before spring break, you were playing with your friends at recess, taking turns spinning on the green spinner on the playground. It was jammie day at school that day, so you were wearing your sleeping mask over your eyes while spinning so you couldn't see; suddenly, you felt something hit your mouth. Turns out, your friend Nora had her hand out and accidentally hit your mouth while you were spinning around. Your tooth popped out and fell into the playground mulch. You didn't even realize it had happened until you stuck your tongue to your tooth and realized it wasn't there any more! You said you were a little upset at first because you didn't know where the tooth was, but your friends all helped you find it.
You can't stop sticking your tongue in your big front gap now. Your other front tooth fell out months ago and the new tooth has not yet come in (the dentist says it's there, just up really high and taking its time to come down). We can see the new tooth under the gum for the one you just lost, so hopefully you're not toothless for too long (it sure makes it hard for you to eat and talk with no front teeth!).
You wrote a note to the tooth fairy and put it on your nightstand and put your tooth in your tooth pillow hanging from your headboard.
Your note said, "Hi Tooth Fairy. I lost my tooth! Someone accidentally knocked it out. It feels really weird. What's your name? Mine is Graecyn. Bye." Then you put a bunch of puppy stickers on it and drew a picture of your tooth pillow and added "This is my tooth pillow, not the sleeping mask" (because the pillow was hanging up with all of your sleeping masks).
When you woke up the next morning, you immediately ran downstairs to get me so that I could look with you to see if the tooth fairy had come. Sure enough the tooth fairy came in the night, took your tooth and left a dollar (that she rolled up and taped shut with some of your washi tape!...she left a few glitter sprinkles on it too).
The tooth fairy did write down her name on the paper with the pen you left out for her. Her name is Tulip Twinkle.
You were pretty excited!!
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