Summer has just begun (as of Wednesday for Mabry, Saturday for us) and I am already hearing, "I'm bored!" Sad isn't it? Mabry has been counting the days until school was out, and now she wants to go back. She hasn't even been out a week. It's a good thing that we have a few activities up our sleeves for the summer.
To cap off Mabry's school year, they gave out awards to the kids. Mabry won two medals for reading. She received second place for the number of accelerated reader points earned in her class and also got to go to a pizza party thrown by the library. She is so excited since it is a REAL (colored) silver medal with 2nd on it. She also got two certificates. One certificate is for the second highest reading score in class and the other is for third highest number of sight words read this year in class. She is extremely proud. She also managed to get straight A's on her report card with the exception of handwriting where she got a C. No surprise, she's a lefty after all. I think she writes awesomely well considering. I can read her handwriting and that is a feat considering what her father's looked like.
So for a reward, we bought Mabry a big girl bike. She took to it like a duck on water. She was riding by herself in ten minutes with no help except to get started. That seems to be the only hang up--just getting started! Oh well. Happy Summer to all!
