Wir Mögen Es! We Like It!: July 2011

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Springville offers a program called, Smart Start. Here is the little blurb about it: Smart Start prepares children ages 3-5 for organized sports in a fun, non-threatening environment and teaches them a variety of general skills including: throwing, catching, kicking and batting. A parent must attend with their child so it’s a great opportunity for parents to spend quality time with their children while helping them prepare for future sport participation.
It was held on 6 mornings in July from 9:00-10:00 A.M.

Daddy was able to come one morning! That was a special treat.
It was fun overall. I had to coax her a bit as we went along, because she just wanted to run around and wasn't big on practicing skills. But when it was time for free play or if they played a game, she was all for it.
She was the only girl there! She was able to get a taste of soccer, baseball, hockey, golf, basketball, and football. She said she liked hockey the best.

Taylor's Birthday Party

Her little friend, Taylor, turned 5. Kim and Scott put on the cutest party! I got to go and be the photographer. All the pictures are on their camera, but I did get this one with Super Heroes Scott, Kim, Elle, Becca, Taylor, Mason, Kayla, and Colin.

OH! And for part of the superhero theme, they pretended the cake was a bomb and Taylor had to blow out the candles to save the world. After, they served the cake and Rebecca would not eat hers because she was afraid it would explode! She kept on saying, "Scott? Is this really going to explode?!" And even after he finally told her no, she was too scared to eat it. Sometimes her imagination works too well and feeds into her fears!

Lazy Days of Summer

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Swimming Lessons

Rebecca took lessons at my parent's neighborhood pool for 2 weeks in June. Miss Amy was her teacher. Amy was my student in the year 2000 as my third grader! It was fun to watch her be the teacher. She was so cute with the kids, making up stories about shooting aliens and secret labs. Rebecca did awesome. She is a little fish. There was one other student, Carter. He was crazy! So Rebecca was actually the calm one in this class. That was a lot different then I was used to....kind of nice and...relaxing. I wonder if that will ever happen again?

Magic Show

The library had a summer reading program. She filled out a passport and earned prizes and activities for reading. We rode our bikes to the library several times this year too. It was way fun. At the end, they had a huge party at the park. She had to read 5 days a week for 20 minutes. That was a snap for us, since she LOVES book. Always has. It's not uncommon to find her sitting with a stack of books around the house - in her room, the family room, living room, our room, toy room... I have baskets with books all around the house. She drags them around, so they might as well have a home.

One of the activities they had was a magic show and I happened to have my camera.
She sat and watched really well. Until Taylor and Elle met up with us. Then she wasn't much interested in paying attention as much as just goofing off! But this guy was great. We like it!