New Beginings

New Beginings is a program to introduce girls who are turning 12 during the year to the Young Womens program at church. We had ours several weeks ago and it turned out so so great. Romy was in charge and did a beautiful job. We talked about the personal progress program. We set up all kinds of lights and did tables for each values. We introduced out new value which is virtue. Then we had a parent introduce each of our new girls and to describe what kind of light that best represents them. One of them was Hannah and I asked her dad to do that since I had to speak. He chose Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). These are the things he said about Hannah

-Only seen at night- Hannah being shy and you only see her true personality every once in a while
-Multi-colored/ they come in all different colors- personality/always wears colorful clothes and is really into fashion/likes be creative
-Unsure of why the lights appear- unpredictable/we never know what kind of mood she is going to be in and it could change in an instant
-Lights are magical- her spirit is magical/she seems to amaze us with something different everyday
-Aurora measns Greek Godess- she has some Christ like attributes
-The Scottish used to believe that the more active the lights were the more severe the weather was going to be and (because of our Scottish Heritage)-When she was little we called her "Hurricane Hannah" she could get into things very fast and make a mess very fast

I was very happy/sad to see this all take place because it means my little girl is growing up. She is ready to grow up so I guess I will let her and just hang on to the memories.

CLair's way of saying "things"

Claire says

Chucky Arms for Lucky Charms
I don't know either for I don't know
sicky cup for sippie cup
Elmo's Quarld for Elmo's World
Dollar Bills for Dollar Store
I go to school morio for I go to school tomorrow
Dranma Ila for Grandma Ila

Popcorn popping on the acerpot tree for Popcorn popping on the apricot tree
We got to the library for reading time and her favorite song is 5 little monkey's swinging in a tree. She likes when you say "SNAP that monkey right out of that tree.
She colored with a sharpie all over her dresser,crib,wall,door,tv screen and picture of Porter. My mom said it reminds her of when I colored all over my grandma Eldora's wall,night stand and ironed pillow case. I used purple which is still my favorite color and I made a big spider on her pillow. This is the grandma that you Do Not sit on her bed spread. Need I say more.

She has 21 stuffed animals,dollys ect in her crib. She calls them "her friends"
She told Ali,"your mean, but I like you anyway"
She takes a picture with a camera and says,"ahh,cute"
She calls a kid in the nursery Tater tot and his name is Tate
She loves broccoli and calls them trees and can out eat anybody with her trees
When she goes to bed at night she calls it her naps and when she wakes up she says," I had good nap." Loves to go to bed and I can count on one hand how many times she has fought it. Love her for that.
She will tell Hannah and Porter when they have been naughty, "its time to go to time out"


I'm sure I will add more later. Enjoy, We have