Catch up 2019

Dear Hazel,

I’m not sure what happened but it appears my last year and a half of posts (albeit few) did not get included in the blog. You have just finished second grade and will be entering third grade in a few months. You are blossoming into an amazing and creative girl. I couldn’t be more prou of how far you’ve come to manage your feelings and focus on the right things. Second grade was a good year for you- you had a great and loving teach Mrs Sims- who really helped support you to build your confidence, especially with writing and reading. You are getting better and better with your reading and it is now a part of your everyday to read signs, commercials, whatever is around.

To help inspire a love of reading you and I are using the summer to read together at night. The first book I read you was Where the Red Fern Grows and it was so amazing to see your interest in the story and your imagination of what it must be like for Billy and his dogs. I think you should rea again when you get older and see if you remember it the same way when we read it together. Unfortunately, the last few chapters of the book were so tough to read and we found ourselves in a weeping mass on the couch as we read the last few word in that last chapter. Now we’re reading something more playful and one of my favorite’s- James and the Giant Peach. I think we’ll read Black Beauty next or Charlotte’s Web.

This school year you did some things for the first time such as Parkour at the Boys and Girls Club as well as joined a soccer team (which daddy ended up coaching). While you’re team didn’t have a lot of W’s in the column, you all had a great time. The Raptors!

You also joined a Girls Scout Troup and participated in events at the PAWS rescue shelter and sold 50+ boxes of cookies (mostly to our family and we still have many boxes in the pantry : )

You also mastered your skiing and swimming and I’m hoping to get you on a swim team in the fall.

This school year we went on a few fun family vacations including a ski trip to Big White where we had the best time ice skating, skiing, hot tubing, playing in the snow and drinking lots of hot chocolate.

We also went on an amazing roadtrip in Southern Utah where we visited esveral national parks – Arches, Canyonlands, Monument, Bryce and Zion. We went horse back riding, went o a dinosaur park and did some great hikes. I made a book about the trip and I hope you still have it by the time you read this.

What is Hazel like these days? Here are some things about you and what you like:

·      You love dogs and animals – all of them but especially horses

·      You learned to ride a bike on June 1 2018 ad haven’t gotten off it since

·      You love pokemon, any really any show. You are truly an electronic loving kid

·      You are super interested in dinosaurs and dragons

·      You love anything to do with the moon

·      You loved doing Performance Arts Camp and performing on stage- singing and acting. You felt so proud and happy

·      You love hot dogs, pizza, pb&j, pasta, rosemary crackers, popcorn, ice cream

·      You seem to be very sentimental and love tradition- you don’t like change and get very attached to the stories behind something whether its your art and the experience you had making it or a family holiday tradition. I love this so much about you. It means you appreciate the things we do and the purpose and intent behind them and it brings you comfort.

I think you were thrilled when we got Farley this last January- you always wanted a puppy and so far he’s been a good one. You had a really hard time remembering his name in the beginning but now you can’t forget him.

My dear Hazel- I really can’t tell you how much I love you- it is indescribable and I will always love you this much and more. You are clever and have a funny bone in you and seem to be always happy. Just know if you ever need anything or someone to lean on I am here for you ALWAYS.

With so much love it hurts my heart to think about, Mommy.