Patient Sonya

So Soni turned 7...um a few weeks ago...and although we celebrated it really felt lost in the craziness that is spring time. Yesterday she brought home a Mother's Day gift for me from school. It was a huge packet full of some of her best school work done over the year, what a gift.

A little late, but here's a little Soni celebration!

Soni's teacher took this one around to show other teachers, she was so impressed by it....those tricky little Irishmen :-)

A few years ago I bought Soni a doll house, which she loved....for a while. More often than not she will create her own doll house out of boxes or other random objects and use it until it wears out, then make a new one. The details of her projects are amazing. Time is no factor, she will work on something until it is what she wants it to be. (This has been something her teacher has been very supportive in, thank goodness.)

Recently she was invited over for a friend's birthday, last minute. We didn't have time to get a gift so Soni went to work and made a book with step by step instructions, with pictures, on how to make a paper airplane. Then she made an airplane and attached it with string to the book.  What a sweet friend she is.

Sonya is our official map checker on all our hikes. I always worry she might wander off the steep side of the trail while trying to figure out where we are.

Did I mention how patient she is? Being child #3, she is often provided with the opportunity to wait her turn, which she does....even if this took a month....

Happy Birthday sweet Sunshine!