Millie's Family: September 2009

August 27th Millie had her first day of school this year. It was a gray rainy day all morning but it started to clear up by the time we went outside. Millie started the year riding the bus to and from school but now I drive her to school and she rides the bus home. It gives her 45 minutes more at home if I drive her. She has a really great teacher this year. She tells me a lot more about her day this year. Yesterday it was her turn to be the helper of the day. She got to be the "line leader." She had been waiting for 3 weeks for it to be her turn. All the papers coming home from school have Millie's name written on them in her handwriting this year. This is new and fun too. Here are some photos!

Horse Show

Millie was involved in the annual Ronald McDonald House Charities Horse Show at Pegasus Farm at the end of August. She got to ride in three events. Games course, barrel and boot lace. She got a t-shirt and had to wear a number and was judged in each event by real judges. She had a great time riding and really enjoyed the award ceremony where she received two third place ribbons and an eighth place ribbon. She waited patiently for over 20 minutes while other kids received their ribbons. When they called her name and she went up to get her first ribbon she said, "It's my turn now to get my ribbons." Everyone there heard her. It was too cute! We are so proud of her! She is really improving. She can sit up very tall on her pony now and has much better balance. At first she used to fall over to one side quite a bit. She holds her reigns very well now and tells her pony to "walk on, whoa and trot." She has ridden four ponies to date. Stormy, Cocoa, Miss Molly and now Shazam.

Geneva State Park

On August 1st we spent the day at the beach at Geneva State Park with our friends Kari, Madison and Morgan. It was a very relaxing day. Millie spent the majority of the time swimming with Mama and Madison in the Lake while Morgan played in the sand. Papa helped Millie fly a kite (but it was not as much fun as swimming.) We went on a walk on the beach to the rocks in the first picture and Millie and Morgan had lots of fun collecting bird feathers, rocks and anything else that looked interesting in the sand.

S.O.A.R. Playground

Millie loves to go to the S.O.A.R. playground. There is really a great variety of things to do there besides just wings and slides. They have many musical things to play and different things to climb/stand/jump on. "Turning slides" are her favorite. On this day we went with our friends Josh, Jeanine and Jonah and there was a hot air balloon preparing to take off. It was fun to watch it get ready. There are four videos followed by some pictures below.

Fishing with Pon Pon

The second weekend in July we spent the night at Pon Pon's house. Early on Sunday morning before church Millie went fishing with Pon Pon in his pond. Millie caught her first Blue Gill and Mama caught a Bass. Millie loved to touch her fish and look at it in the bucket after she caught it. I think she will want to fish again when we go down. She seemed to be really interested. Here are a few pictures.