More summer

She just wrapped up a week of Kitchen Chemistry camp and Basketball camp. I can't even believe how much she is loving basketball! It's wild! She has learned all kinds of moves and made new friends. This was the most fun she's had at any camp (and she's loved the science ones but not as much as this one!). I hope we can find her a league or something around here to keep her in as long as she's interested.

A few weeks ago, her Girl Scout painting day inspired her to come home and look up on YouTube "how to draw a cute cat". All by herself. This is what she created from the instructional video:





Geeze the kid is good!

It was so cool to see her engaged in a team sport, for the short time I stuck around at drop off. She's never participated in team sports before. I think she'll get so much out of it!





Anna's been busy...


:)

Summer stuff

I just returned from the week at a conference in Chicago, full of my favorite coworkers, and I met lots of new NASA faces too. I love my job! I learned tons and got much done. Such a productive trip!

This is the last work trip for me this summer without Paul and Anna. Next up: Dad's house for the 4th of July and then London and Scotland (the 3 of us!) for my last work trip of the summer. We will manage a day trip to Stonehenge/Windsor Castle/Bath and a second day trip to (THE) Loch Ness in between work! So excited!

I know these travel opportunities won't last long so I am so very grateful to get them and to include Paul and Anna. She's lucky to be coming on such trips so young, but I make sure she knows this isn't common for most kids and she should be grateful for all of it. She gets it.

Two rules when traveling with me:
1) Keep up!
2) No complaining!

In between trips Anna is in various science and art camps. She's asked to also be in basketball camp so we signed her up to see how she likes it! She's still loving hoops in the front yard :)

She had a painting class at the Paint Pub with her Girl Scout buds yesterday and this is the result:





She's good :)

Between camps, trips, tons of pool time, and neighborhood friends, she's ha in a dream summer in my opinion! She even got a job at the clinic for days she has downtime at home and had to hang with Paul there. She is saving her money for the London trip.




She's proud of her work and on her first day she took me around he clinic to show me all she had done :)

She's started the public library's summer reading challenge. She's reading at a few levels higher than 1st grade (awesome!) but as for craving books, she can take me or leave em. So when I told her the library was having a "challenge" that definitely got her interested! Girl loves a good challenge and she's already read through many of her required 10 books for the summer :) I'm trying to find some really good chapter book series she'd be interested in but I'm new at this. Just bought her the first of he Magic Treehouse and I also got her Nim's Island because she loves adventure like those. We shall see!






Life is good. We are so very grateful.

Father's Day 2014

We had a great Father's Day last weekend. Breakfast in bed, a homemade card, and she read Paul a book I for her called, "The Perfect Father's Day". It was a story about a little girl who takes her dad to all his (actually hers!) favorite places on Father's Day :) About right! We also got him the new mug.











Made it to the Houston Museum of Natural Science for the afternoon and ended with them building a tin can robot from a kit Anna had wanted for several weeks :)











Good day, good Daddy!!

Anna's first summer job

Lucky kid! Earning cash between camps :)