Bree's Digital Life: Update continued...

Next up is Eva, because she is always upset that she has to be last all the time!!

Back in January Eva was finally able to dance in the School Dance Festival. She had been watching it for the last 4 years and was more than ready to strut her stuff to the "Chicken Dance". She did a wonderful job shaking her little tail feathers around the gym with her classmates.

We did get snow this last winter, not too much, but a couple of storms rolled through town dumping enough of the fluffy white stuff to let the girls go out and play. Being the youngest means that you get the hand-me-down's that are still too big for you- good thing she has such a cute little face peeking out of all those large layers!! Of course it wouldn't be fun without our neighbor Kate playing too.

February brings with it Grandparents Day at the school. With all three girls at the school this year it was a little tricky to cover all the classes but the Davis' were up to the task. Eva was delighted to have Grandma spend the morning with her "Because I never had Grandma in my class before" she told me most emphatically.

Of course we couldn't miss the huge class celebration of the first 100 days of school. Eva made this poster of 100 pennies mostly by herself (Grandpa Griffiths helped with the hot glue) and she was so proud of how it turned out. The lady at the store thought I was crazy when I asked to trade in a dollar bill for a bunch of pennies though :)

Eva LOVES dogs. That was an understatement. Eva REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVES dogs! She has booked marked a million different dog breeds on our tablet and comes to me multiple times a day to let me know that "I really like this cute one mom, and look, it is very low shedding and really good with children". We will not be getting a dog. So Paul bought her this life size puppy and she quickly named him Luke (after our friends dog that had recently passed away) and he is now her constant companion. She has taken him everywhere, slept with him nightly, and buckled him in safely next her her on all our car rides. She wants to bring him with her to church, but that is where I draw the line!

Our tree out front was in full bloom and this year Eva was able to climb it all by herself to immerse her senses in all it's pinkalicious glory.

Eva lost her first upper tooth! It was a long hard battle between father and daughter. I mean truthfully, a two month battle of wills before she let him pull it's brown wobbly self out- which fell in her mouth and then she promptly swallowed it!!!

That happened just in time because the next day Eva graduated Kindergarten!!! Our school doesn't do a big ceremony, but they do spend the last day on a field trip to a park in Alpine for a picnic and playing games all day- oh, and they get to wear JEANS! Such excitement!!
Eva had a great year in school. Our shy little girl that had never been without her sister's opened up and blossomed under the care of our beloved teacher Mrs. Strong. She was a well behaved girl who followed instruction, learned really well, and became friends with all the girls in her class ("not the boys mom!). Math came very easy for her, as did her phonograms and spelling. Eva truly excelled in her reading. When the class was finally ready to start sending home reader books in January, Eva skipped them all and went straight into the 1st Grade chapter books!! She loves to read. All her free time is spent with a book. We still have to go to the library every week just to keep her stocked up with new books. We are so proud of Eva!!

Soccer! After the last day of school, Eva's soccer team played their final game of the season and ended it as undefeated champions!! This spring she still loved the game and found herself more in the mix. She loved to kick the ball down the field, block the other team from scoring and she even scored 3 goals!

The "Knight Lightning's" were a very fun team (the only other girl, Mya, was missed on the last day). Coach Lee was so great and wonderful with these kids and hopefully we will have him again next year too.