A Post for Summer (Day 3)

Summer is the fire cracker of the Barney home. She has so much energy--from the moment she wakes up and pops out of bed, starting up conversation as if she'd never fallen asleep, to the second she finally stops moving in her bed and finally falls asleep. I still don't know how she exerts so much energy and doesn't ever need to slow down!

Summer is doing great in school. She gets along with her friends really well, and she's learning quite a few new songs that she comes home and teaches Claire and sings to Pyper. Her teachers are always saying nice things about her.

Here she is spelling her name with the bath letters.
The other day, her friend Porter came to school with his hair slicked into a mohawk. She said, "Look mom! Porter has shark hair!"

Summer loves doing yoga. She will get out her yoga pretzel cards quite a few times throughout the week to do a few moves. Here she is doing the warrior pose (the card is at the base of her feet). (Great job Claire too!)
Summer is a typical big sister. She pesters and teases, but she is also quite kind and loving when she wants to be. Just today, I was finishing up lunch . . . getting ready to clean the place up (haha, yeah right) . . . when I noticed Summer had scooted over by Pyper who was laying on the boppy and began reading this book to Pyper.
Pyper actually was looking at the pictures with Summer. Summer was telling Pyper stories from the pictures, and she was talking so quietly I had to listen carefully. Claire ended up joining them when she was done eating. This lasted for twenty minutes. It was so sweet.

Summer now does her "studies" in the morning. I print these two pages off, and she traces over them each day. Here's her work from today. She traced the numbers so well that it's hard to tell she even did it. But I watched. I'm proud of her. Then she connected the numbers.
I had her use red here so you could see a little easier. On this page, she is supposed to trace the letters, then copy them below. I added the letters in yellow just in case you couldn't tell what was going on.

Summer is quite resourceful. Wherein Claire would come ask for help, Summer just figures out how to do it on her own--like get a glass of water or climb up onto the bookshelf to get something down.

One thing that Summer really enjoys is when we communicate by singing. The other day, I was asking her to put her pieces of chalk away to the tune of "Ode to Joy" (which she is familiar with because of Little Einsteins.) She responded in song, "No thank you." And then smiled. I responded by singing again. This time, she sang, "No you." I sang back, "No you." This went back and forth a few times, and each time she mimicked the tune that I sang with the two words. Finally, I threw a little trill in there (not that I have any singing talent), she attempted to trill too, and then we both laughed and cleaned up the chalk together. It was fun.

Summer is a light in our home. She's smart and curious and is always thinking. When she's gone playing with friends, we sure miss her. She's a great help around the house and a happy girl. We love this burst of life in our home.