March- What a Month

March has been a wonderfully, busy and fun-filled month.

We had a couple of snow storms which meant hours of fun outside.  Sophia played with the kids in the neighborhood and went sledding for hours on end.  They all had so much fun together.

Sophia finally went on her second grade field trip to see a play.  This is a big event in second grade that had to be rescheduled once before due to snow.  Thankfully it went off without a hitch this time and everyone had a blast.  Steve was a chaperone on the field trip and I stayed back at the school to help set up for an after play lunch.

 

Aiden visited for a weekend and we hit all the March birthdays at once, Aiden's, Aunt Leslie's Mauro's and Grandma Bev's.  We had a nice afternoon together.  It is always good to be with family.  We also went over again to celebrate Grandma Bev's when it was closer to her actual birthday.

The weekend that Aiden visited was a jammed packed one with Sophia's performance in a talent show at her school on Friday night.  She did an awesome jump rope routine that she made up herself. She told us that she wanted to be in talent show to help her be more brave on stage for her spring Drama performance which will be held at the end of May.  She is a forward thinker and seems to be developing wonderful coping strategies to face things that are new.



Sophia was also in the Hunter Schooling Show on that Sunday.  She spent hours at the barn on Saturday, first riding and then getting her horse, Mirage ready for the show.  She cleaned her tack, cleaned Mirage and her stall.  Sophia had so much fun doing this.  The morning of the show was COLD but Sophia didn't seem to mind.  She did really well during the competition.  She got 2nd place in the equation walk, equation trot and first place going over poles.  She competed in the next level of riders and got a 5th place in equation walk.  She is amazing.  So small but so strong on a horse.

Sophia completed a project for the science fair.  Her experiment focused on what type of bread would mold the fastest in different conditions.  She had a blast working on this.  She loves science.