Claudia!

Claudia is almost nine years old.  She is almost five feet tall.  She continues to be one of the tallest girls in her class.  She hears "You've gotten sooo tall" every where she goes.  She has lots of Aunts...

She is doing great at basketball.  She is in 4th grade and it is a 3rd-4th grade league, so she is a leader on her team.  She loves playing the games.  She is taking the winter off from soccer, but watches it on TV all the time.

She is in class with Mrs. Matthews.  She gave a workshop on iPad use with classmates that was really fun to parents.  She is auditioning for a solo with the chorus today for the concert next month.  Her first "real" school concert.  Hopefully one of many. Soon we will decide band or orchestra or choir...

Update

Claudia is doing really well in soccer.  She works really hard at it.  She almost always play center back to start and end the game.

Fourth grade is going well and her teacher is Mrs. Matthews.

She is practicing the piano a lot.  She also had basketball tryouts tonight and did really well.

Spain

The airport was long the plane ride was 8 hours. When we got to Madrid we had to drive for hours to get to bennicasim where the wedding was. We stayed in a bungalow. We went to the beach a lot.  The water was very warm and there were no fish rocks or seashells in the sand. We went to this festival on the beach.  Everybody built bonfires on the sand and at midnight everybody was supossed to run into the water and jump over three waves and make three wishes.  We went out to dinner and the kopecs were at the same reasturant  and when we got inside Tootie and Jeff were in there to having dinner.

We went to Barcelona for a day. We took the train.  we got on the tour bus.  We saw the Olympic torch.  We got back on the bus and went to some cable cars.  The picture is when we are at the top  of the hill.  At the top of the hill there were a fort that the people used.  Then we got back on the tour bus and to the train station.  the train had a table in the middle  so we played cards.

Springtime

We went to lake Compounce.  We went on to the log flume.  It was Mollys first time going on it.  We also went to the water park.  The water was really cold.  We went in a wave pool and lazy river.

Recital

Claudia had a great piano recital today.

Piano Work

Goal!

Riding Lessons

Claudia recently started horse riding lessons.  She likes them a lot.  Her horse name is Mitchell.

Home Run

March!

Claudia finished her basketball season.  She got a lot better this season, her first in real games.  She ended up scoring about 5 pts each game.  She works really hard.

Last weekend Claudia was tested for her piano lessons on theory and her playing.  We think she did pretty well, although we don't have the results yet.

Track Meet

IMG_0758 a video by brandtsch on Flickr.

Claudia got 6th in the 55m and 3rd in the long jump. She got 11th in the 400m. She was in the 9 and 10 age group.

Bobby McFerrin

The girls and I had a special visit to New York City last night.  We went to the Time Warner Center for dinner and a concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center.  JALC is a huge facility with three theaters.

We had dinner at Landmarc which is a big restaurant, but it is very kid friendly.  They even brought cotton candy out at the end of the meal.

We then went to the Bobby McFerrin concert.  We sat in one of the boxes behind the stage.  The sound was not great but we had the box to ourselves and could see really well so it worked out.

January

Claudia is really enjoying basketball.  She has been doing good at winter soccer.

This week she had a bowling birthday party with Emily, Caroline, Erin, Leah, Jack, Noah, Taylor, and Molly.  It was super fun.

Claudia got a big girl bike for her birthday.  A non K-Mart bike that should hold together in summer triathlons.  She is still growing fast and had a healthy 8th year doctor appointment.