Sydney has had a full year! She started first grade this fall with Mrs. Norton (who attends our church). We love her! Sydney has learned to write really well this year and her reading has far exceeded any of our expectations. She loves school, but her favorite things are ballet and art class. She loves Mrs. Barrett and enjoyed taking her after school art class this fall.
Sydney is my creative artist. She loves how music integrates into dance into art into design. Her imagination blows us a way. She loves all the arts and being a part of all of them. Not one has really surfaced as her favorite. She has her own sense of style and her own way of expressing her ideas. Whether she is playing dress up, building a store outside her room, creating bedrooms for her babies within her own room, planning a "show" to perform on Christmas that includes costumes, music, and dancing or re-decorating her room - she loves to create.
Hear are some funny things she has said this year...
- "Mom, I don't want to be a cheerleader because you have to talk a lot. I just like to paint and not talk."
- "I think I have another ear confession"(i.e. - infection)
- "Are you kidding me?"
Sydney had her tonsils and adenoids removed in November. She has fully recovered and is sleeping so soundly. She failed part of her hearing test at school this year and we discovered she had a ton of fluid in her ears. She hears so much better now and the TV is no longer at maximum volume when she is watching it!
The highlight for us this year was that Sydney indicated to us that she trusted Jesus to be Her Savior. She received a journal from a friend during her recovery from surgery and she wrote pages and pages of her thoughts. We think some of her thoughts were definitely because of her medication - things like " Fairies are bad.God is good." (Lol!) Anyway, there were some things that were so meaningful like this..."I learned that God made us food and water. He gave us His love to follow Him and He made us and the most important gift that He gave us His Son Jesus."
She wrote a great little Christmas song this year that I was able to capture on my iphone. Here it is...
