Little House

Ever since we visited the Living History Farm at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, MT two years ago, Gina has wanted a pioneer girl outfit. After a bit of looking on the internet, I found a shop on Etsy that sells made to order outfits complete with matching bonnet. Her class is studying the pioneers at school and they have an overnight field trip to a ranch where they get to pretend to be homesteaders. So for an early birthday present, I ordered an outfit.

Gina's class also do a presentation in May on a historical figure from the 1800s where they dress up as the person and talk about that person's life. Gina's first choice? Laura Ingalls Wilder. She spent the last weekend coming up with a second choice, just in case (Belle Starr).

Monday afternoon she came home to her early birthday present after being able to pick Laura Ingalls Wilder for her presentation.

Here she is looking through the Little House cookbook which she picked up from the library.

Basketball

Gina loves playing soccer in the fall and spring. This year I asked if she wanted to give basketball a try in the winter by playing in the local YMCA league and she agreed. She is the tallest player on her team but she doesn't have the same enthusiasm for the game as some of the other players on her team.

In the first game, she walked down the court to get on offense and then walked down the court to get on defense. She touched the ball twice in that game. As the season has progressed though, she has improved. Before each game, I tell her to focus on running to get on defense and then on offense and that has helped. I've also tried to tell her to imagine that the other team are her brothers and she needs to get the ball from them. That just makes her laugh though. In the last game, she finally made a basket which made her day. One more game to go and then she can focus again on soccer.