Lussi's First Recital

Today Lussi mastered Row Row Row Your Boat on the piano and she got so excited that she invited all her neighborhood friends and Grandma and Grandpa Salmela over for a recital (that's what she called it!) She gave out tickets to the kids and cleaned up the sunroom and put out chairs for all to sit on. She also made these signs by herself and put them up for her concert guests. (Hi! I am Lussi. I have a concert for you. Yes! I have a concert for you. I love you.) It was the shortest recital on record... 22 seconds.

Row-Row-Row Your Boat

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Sofia play...(she doesn't know I'm there)

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Itsy bitsy spider

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Neighborhood Egg Hunt

Mega Mall... once every 6 years is enough :)

6 years old!!!

Another year has rolled around and this one has been filled with giant leaps physically and mentally. Last summer Lussi learned to ride her bike, in school she learned to read and write and now spell some common words as well as add and subtract, and recently she has become comfortable with going under water for 10 to 15seconds. Everyone told us that the years would pass faster and faster... well now we know first hand that it's true!

Kindergarten

It is so hard to believe the whole year of Kindergarten has almost passed! What a busy year it has been but so much fun. Lussi loves school and when I asked her about school and whether or not she liked it she said, “I love school as much as I love you Mommy and that’s a lot!” She loves her teacher and really likes most of her classmates. She has had a few boy friends this year... Aaron first and now Aidan. Her best friends have been Maria then Gretta and now Lydia. On the academic side, she knows how to read now! She is reading at a first grade level already and she really wants to keep getting better so i know what we will be doing all summer! She is fun to listen to too, I can't believe how fast she went from barely writing all the letters to reading books all by herself. At our conference with her teacher we learned that Lussi is not emotional in school and the teacher had never seen her cry, unlike some of the other "emotional" girls in class. We were shocked, she is still pretty emotional with us but getting less so since Mrs. Rolfe blew her cover. We also learned that Lussi is not to be messed with on the playground or in class. Mrs. Rolfe says she stands her ground and that she personally would not want to cross her. Mrs Rolfe called her a confident, smart little cookie. Of course, as parents we are proud but mostly relieved that she is happy, challenged and maturing into a little adult.