Gymnastics party. The trampoline is always a hit.
Category: Adrianna
First Violin Recital
Adrianna started playing violin about 8 months ago. Today was her first recital. She is learning how to play “double stops” (playing two strings at once). That is her teacher accompanying her on the cello. I think the song is called the Crawdad song. They listed it as an American folk piece. I am excited […]
Piano Recital 2016
The second song Adrianna is playing is one that she arranged herself from a song she heard online. I love that she sits down and plays new compositions or arrangements often. (Right now she is working on some new arrangements from the computer game UnderTale.) This was Bree’s first recital. She was nervous but she […]
Soaring
Soaring over the mountains. And down the slide.
Letters, Patterns, and Topic Sentences
Practicing sight words (Bree) and the alphabet (Cate) is more fun with letter magnets. When I saw the pattern on the abacus this morning, I assumed that Greg had made it (because it is totally something Greg would do.) But Bree proudly told me that she had created it. I guess it comes as no […]
Awoken
Adrianna’s newest song. She didn’t write the original song, but this is her arrangement of it. She found the song, called Awoken, on a Minecraft fan-fiction video on Scratch. The original song can be heard here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/41118020/ Adrianna enjoys composing and arranging songs that have a haunting quality about them.
Adrianna and Bree – Well Child Checkup Stats
Adrianna, 11 years, 6 months Height: 61″ = 84th percentile Weight: 86 pounds = 48th percentile Bree, 6 years, 10 months Height: 47.5″ = 51st percentile Weight: 45.2 pounds = 28th percentile
Bird Banding Field Trip
One of the highlights of our field trip to Barr Lake State Park yesterday was when Adrianna got to release one of the birds after it had been banded. It sat in her hand and had to be coaxed to fly away, much to Adrianna’s delight. I love Cate’s “binoculars.” Especially since she has a […]
First Day of School 2016
First day of [home]school for this year. Adrianna (6th grade), Bree (1st grade), and Cate (preschool). Actually, we do a bit of schooling year-round, but their homeschool co-op started today, which I mark as the first day of our new school year. I am excited for their new classes at their co-op. Adrianna is taking […]
Track Photos
Finally got around to picking up the girls’ track photos. I am so proud of how hard they worked this summer.