Life in a grid

[smittenbyu]

• Went to Great Falls today! What a beautiful day it turned out to be! Friend called up and asked if we were free! We sure were! D & Anju had a nice time walking through the trails, having lunch and just enjoying the outdoors. They loved watching the waterfalls! (pic below) There were several kayakers too braving the waters that caught their eye! They both vowed that's what they will do when they are big!


• D picked out her langa/blouse and wanted to be a princess. She said she won't go to the park or the dress would get dirty. She got on her bangles, bindi (dot on forehead), In the photo she is shouting "cheese!"


• One evening she decided we were going to have a picnic dinner! It was the day we stayed home all day!


• Went to see a magic show. She was completely mesmerized. She didn't want to sit with me either.  Teenage years seem to have come on early in our household!


• She wrote her name!!! She got the first three letters! We have never sat down and taught her! She just observed us writing and seeing her name spelt out in various places!! She has been scribbling her name for a while now and she is now making definite shapes that do look like her name!! She loves to do it all the time, any time she finds a paper & pen!

Other things:

• At the library we signed up for a "1,000 books before kindergarten" program. In reality she has already read (has been read) a 1,000 books! Ah well, this will help the library provide evidence that they are providing service. I hesitated to sign up, since she doesn't need any incentive to read. They give a "prize" after a 100 books, and a sticker or something every 100 books they read with a free book when they reach the end. ah well, she was asked by her favourite librarian and she spoke for herself. That was nice!


• She finished her summer reading, of 10 books in 2 days! She just loves books! It made me getting over my cough and cold harder as that's all she wanted me to do with her. And while I am on a break she "reads" herself the books!


• We need an incentive program to get her do more physical activity! lol.. It's funny though her three closest friends are very physically active! So we try to get together more often! Otherwise, she is happy just chilling in the sandbox or next to us!


• D & her friends are having conversations!!! oh it's so much fun to eavesdrop on what they are telling each other!! Who needs TV for entertainment!!?!

Great Falls, McLean, Virginia