Summertime 2011...

Hi, Everyone! Hope you're all doing well. We are plugging along through the hot months and looking forward to the fall!

Stella is as vivacious, smart and beautiful as ever. She is very interested in letters, spelling and reading now. She always asks how to spell everything and when she sees letters she always tries to identify them - and is getting pretty good at it! I have the feeling she'll be an early reader.

She is now 28 pounds and 38 inches tall.

She continues to surprise us with the funny and intelligent things that she says and remembers. She has the memory of an elephant.

We've stayed busy over the summer with vacations, swimming, movies and having play dates with her little friends in our neighborhood/ward. She has a little set of girl friends that are in our ward that are so cute all together. It's fun. She's very social and is already a leader amongst her peers.

We went to California a couple weeks ago and took her to Disneyland. You'll see some pictures below of the beach and of Disney. She got to meet 'the real' Sleeping Beauty and give her a hug. She was in awe. :)

She started back into gymnastics and dance two weeks ago after a nice summer break and is doing great already. The teacher moved her up to a more advanced dance class already! It's so cute. She's getting really good at watching the teacher and following her example.

Today was her first day back at preschool. She was very excited and not nervous at all. There are some pictures of her below (in the purple / pink dress and purple flowers in her hair), of her 'first day of school' outfit.

We love her so much and are so grateful to have her. She is our little ray of sunshine.