Abigail's Recent Achievements

Soccer

Soccer season is over! Saturday’s game was so fun to watch. The opposing team was definitely our best competition, but Abigail and her team played another great game and ended the season undefeated. We're excited to have our Saturdays back (that is until the girls start soccer again in the fall.)

Katie relaxing during the game

Piano Debut

Abigail had her first piano recital on Saturday evening. We are so proud of how much she has learned since starting lessons in January. She loves learning new songs and practices several times a day. She enjoys it so much that she wants to ask her teacher if she can take lessons throughout the summer. Here's a video clip of her performance:

Spelling Bee Finalist

Yesterday Abigail participated in her schools first annual spelling bee. Each class sent their top three spellers to the finals, there were 15 second-grade finalists. This was the first spelling bee I’ve ever seen. The set-up was quite intense and very official. The students had a time limit, had to specify capitalization and punctuation (I witnessed a third-grader get the shaft for not capitalizing “English”), and there was no correcting of yourself. If you made even the slightest stutter of the wrong letter you were out of the running. Abigail seemed to have a lot of fun with it and made it through several rounds – she was one of the last five standing. All the finalists received rootbeer floats afterward – Abigail takes hers without the bubbly. Way to go Abigail!