Update

June 17, 2013

I am sitting in the Arlington Children’s Theatre watching Petru rehearse for the Little Mermaid. I have been here for 2 hours and have finished all the work I brought with me. Then I remembered the blog. This past week I shared the blog with Petru, now an almost 8 year old. He loved it. He laughed hearing about how he used to be, the conversations we used to have, and how he made sense of things when he was much younger. This motivated me to get back to the blog.

So lets rewind and update first.

Petru is almost done with 1^st grade at Dallin. He had a great year, with lots of learning for him, but mostly for Chris and me. This year shattered many of the parenting believes that I used to hold, and helped me grow so much as a parent and as a person. 

Some highlights of the year:

We took  a trip to Florida to see cousin Landen and  meet cousin Oliver. Petru and Landen had a ball (and several competitive arguments, ha!). We went to Legoland, we went to Wet and Wild (water park!!!) and enjoyed time with Buni and family.

We took another trip to North Carolina where we spent time with cousins Izzy and Michael, and played a lot of mini golf.

Some favorites:

Traffic lights continue to be huge

Drawing

Mini Golf

Water park (memberships for Watercountry have again been purchased this year).

Music – Taylor Swift is big nowJ

Piano

Petru started Russian Math this year and has been doing very well. Amazing to see him strive in that environment, and go from being unable to sit and work through any problem that was not “easy”, to trying to figure things out on his own (and succeeding). I think he inherited Chris’s math geneJ More importantly, he is super proud of himself and often announces that “I am good at math”.

More recently Petru took off with his reading. I think this is a function of reducing the computer time.

He continues to take piano lessons, and has his second recital tomorrow afternoon. He will be playing “chimes”, which he composed, and Rodeo. He has been working on learning how to play “I knew you were trouble” and is excited to play it in front of all his friends on Monday.

Pictures some other time..