Houston, we. have. a. teenager.
What?
HOW?!
Our candy Hailey Bug is 13 years outdated and I don’t even understand how that’s actual. However we’re right here, we’re excited, and we are able to verify that 13 isn’t scary. In actual fact, it’s superb.
A good friend instructed me that the teenager years together with her youngsters are a few of her favourite as a result of that’s when you possibly can really feel issues start to shift from a strictly guardian/youngster relationship to a deeper degree connection and friendship. I cherished that and might see our wheels delivering that path. Don’t get me fallacious, I’ll all the time be guardian first for these years as a result of even massive youngsters nonetheless want boundaries and path, however there’s a deeper connection forming as we watch her uncover and change into who she is a bit more every year.
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Hailey is artful and inventive. She’s extremely considerate and intuitive by nature. She’s hooked on the piano and might’t stroll by it with out stopping to play a tune. She is aggressive in sports activities and board video games. She is aware of the way to push her sister’s buttons. She likes to have a plan and construction. She likes to exercise and run with David and me. She enjoys hikes, being outdoors, and adventures. She isn’t an enormous fan of cities or locations with too many individuals. She’s a caretaker. She loves group and is thrilled that I’ve have allowed her to be the official group czar of the brand new home.
This has been an enormous 12 months for her. She’s going by means of an enormous transition, from the home she’s recognized her complete life, to nomad, to new residence (hopefully this month). She’s dealt with all of it with a whole lot of grace; I’m so pleased with her. I actually really feel like this coming 12 months she’s going to thrive. She has a quiet confidence in who she is, one thing I deeply admire about her.
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Hailey at 13 Years Previous Q&A
- Favourite Meals: Marinated hen and noodles, cheeseburgers, lasagna, coconut rice, apples, crispy hen thighs, pears
- Favourite dessert: Tres Leches or ice cream (often salted caramel)
- Favourite Coloration: gentle blue/periwinkle, mustard yellow
- Favourite Clothes Merchandise: her new denims, athletic put on
- Favourite Craft: drawing and portray, resin
- Favourite Sports activities: Soccer and basketball
- Favourite Trip: Crusing within the Caribbean (the primary journey; the second journey)
- Favourite Ebook (learn with us): Harry Potter (we relistened to them on audio)
- Favourite Books (learn on her personal): Percy Jackson collection, Story of Magic collection
- Favourite Homeschool Topic: morning time (music/image/bible research), handicraft, nature research
- Favourite Songs: Lovely Issues, Roots, Final Man Standing, Ought to Have Been a Cowboy
- Favourite TV Exhibits: Full Home
- Favourite Films: Nationwide Treasure, the Harry Potter films, Disney films
- Favourite Animals: Finley vizsla canine, giraffes
- Wake Up Time/Mattress Time: I wake her up at 8:00 for varsity days, but when left to her personal units, it’s 10:00. Bedtime is between 8:30/9:00, however she learn each her bible and her present guide for some time earlier than going to mattress.
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If I may inform Hailey something for her to recollect, it could be how a lot we actually get pleasure from her. She’s enjoyable to be round, a real ray of sunshine on this world, with a cheerful coronary heart and a caring soul. We’re so pleased with who she is and get the deepest pleasure attending to be her mother and pa. We love you, Hailey Ann!
