8 Years Old

Height: 4"

Weight: 53lbs

8 years old!  Still loves to sleep.  Still loving gymnastics.  Just started piano lessons this August and is loving it so far.  We recently had parent teacher conferences and not surprising, she is doing great in class.  She's every teacher's model student - getting her work done, listening and following instructions, helpful and happy.  Her teacher had a difficult time giving us something that she needs to work on!

At home, she's still attached to her beloved blanket (aka bobee), loves arts and crafts type of projects and now enjoying playing games on her hand-me-down iphone 8.  For her 8th birthday, she just wanted to invite a few friends over to play and hang out (Her best friends now are Emma, Brooklyn, Alyssa and Emily).  I was busy planning out activities that they could do and Ms. Sassy pants response to me was "Mama, why do you have to over plan everything?  Can't I just play with my friends?!"  Because I'm an awesome mom (and did not want a group of bored girls for 2 hours), I still prepped to have them make shrinky dinks, decorate cupcakes and make scrapbooks - all which they had tons of fun doing!  Fortunately, she was thoughtful enough and had the courtesy of thanking me afterwards for doing all that for her. :)  

She's now part of the developmental pre-team at GTC and has been spending longer hours at the gym.  Despite not making it to every single practice, her coach says she's keeping up with the rest of the girls.  They had a showcase back on October 20 where her team performed a very fun and energetic routine.  So proud of all her hard work in picking up the routine despite being out of commission for a couple practices (she contracted an unfortunate case of head lice!).