Serenity's Birthday Update
Serenity is NINE years old! I can't believe next year she will be into double digits! I also can't believe I'm just posting this blog in October, but such is life.
I love Serenity SO much! She's growing into such a kind, funny, interesting girl! She loves her family and still considers Donovan her best buddy. She plays with Maia and longs to carry her around like a baby even though Maia's getting pretty big too. She loves to read, swing, and still enjoys being Nature Girl. On her actual birthday, Serenity went by Plant Girl and rocked the green cape and leafy glasses at lunch at Pei Wei and to Cherry Berry. We also went to the pool and two Pokémon gym raids! She is so much fun!!! She makes up funny songs and dances to her own tunes. She also loves acting. She had a blast as Loki in the Drama Festival last year, and we’re looking into acting classes for her. She memorizes lines fast and loves using dramatic expressions and tones. She’s never really been so into an activity that we stuck with one more than a year, but we’re hoping she finds one she loves, maybe this will be it! She adores Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes and Myths. They are giant books that she’s read through at least five times, more than I have.
Sibling hugs! =)
Here are some of her favorite things as of her ninth birthday:
Favorite Books: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes and Greek Myths. Heidi. Harry Potter (She made it halfway through book 5 this year before she got too nervous!) She still loves the books about magical animals.
Toy: She has a fairy door in her room, and a fairy named Sophia leaves her messages and pretty things she finds in nature. She’s left worry stones, messages on rocks, pretty leaves, and decorations for the fairy garden. Serenity adores her and leaves her messages. She even made a white board so she could write messages more easily.
She also really loves playing games on the computer and IPAD. Animal Jam is still a favorite, and she loves apps that let her build her own little worlds, like DragonVale, Tunnel Town, and other games like that. She also likes if they involve cute animals.
Activities: Swimming. Serenity is a fairly strong swimmer and she loves diving to the bottom of the pool to retrieve things. She’s good enough that we can let her in the deep end without worrying excessively.
Girl Scouts: Serenity is a Brownie now! The brownie badges are a lot of fun, and they can do so much more now. She earned a Household Elf badge (this is the one she added to the list herself as one of her top favorites) She made air freshener, learned about water conservation, and other ways to be a good helper around the house. She also earned First Aid, Pets, Painting, Home Scientist, Outdoor Artist, Outdoor Explorer, and two Cookie Badges. I was proud that she set a pretty high goal for Cookie Sales, and actually reached her goal. We were in the last days of the sale and she was pretty far away, but she loaded up all the cookies everyone had returned and went around our neighborhood until they were gone! She actually sold all the cookies people had asked to be donated too, so I had to get more from the cookie pantry. It was great! It really helped the troop too, because we had no unsold boxes. Maximum profits.
Bridging
A year of pictures =)
July 2016, At Camp Tallchief for Girl Scout Day Camp
August 2016, Doing yoga on the yoga mat she bought with the cookie money she earned. I thought it was a great choice!
August 2016 Back to School! I love that she wanted ivy in her hair to make it fancy =)
September 2016
Cartwheeling is one of Serenity's favorite things, she has done a hundred in a row! And she had serious fun cartwheeling in her new BatGirl costume. =)
October 2016 on our annual pumpkin patch visit. They had a butterfly house this year!
Serenity chose Vulpix for her Halloween costume. Pokemon Fun!!!
November 2016, her class pic!
December 2016. Serenity donated her hair!
Christmas 2016. Swinging in our neighborhood greenbelt
Sleeping with Lyra, the fox she got by donating to the World Wildlife fun. Foxes were her charity of choice this year. She loves her =)
Loki!
March 2017, our Cherokee Princess Dogwood bloomed!!!!
April 2017. She adores this skirt =) Love her style!
May 2017, an award for reading
May 2018, Serenity's Moana party! We did her birthday a little early this year since we were planning to travel in July =)
June 2017, a flower girl in Alli's wedding!
Dressed as Nature Girl for her birthday ice cream treat =)
