Our Susanna is having another birthday! Here are some pictures of her elementary school years to honor her:
The summer before starting kindergarten wearing some clothes sent to us by Frau Czadek, our Germany friend:
Susanna broke her arm when she was balancing on a barstool that was on top of a couch cushion and fell off. Talmage says that he remembers thinking, "This is not going to go well." Susanna and Talmage made up all kinds of games including pretend to play together. Once, Susanna and Talmage created a "library" in her room and invited me to come and check out a book. It was very cute.
Susanna enjoyed starting school and making new friends there. Her teacher loved her because she was so cooperative. The end of kindergarten play:
Our cute little kitty:
Susanna loved to be included with her big brothers and enjoyed building this snowman with them:
Susanna's 7th birthday party where they made their own pizzas as chefs:
During the trip to Goblin Valley where the tent blew away with Susanna in it:
Bear Lake, 2008:
Her baptism:
This picture was taken just as our new kitchen was being finished as you can see from the missing countertop on the bare cabinet behind Susanna. I love the paperclip necklace she made for herself:
Susanna played soccer for a few seasons. She enjoyed it and scored 3 goals that fall:
At Colonial Days at the SCERA park where they dressed up as immigrants and became citizens:
Her 9th birthday party:
Hedwig, the owl:
Susanna really excelled in school. She was a great reader and was very responsible with her assignments. She was in the Accelerated program at Foothill and enjoyed those classes. Here is her costume for the class opera in Mrs. Judd's class:
Susanna started taking piano lessons when she was halfway through kindergarten and then took lessons from Grandma Hansen starting when she was not quite 7. She was also a diligent piano student. For the duet festival, she was partners with Jake? Parker and they got a 39/40:
Susanna has always been very competitive. Shortly after we became part of the Canyon View 4th Ward, there was a ward activity where they had a serious expression contest. The whole ward participated and then people were eliminated one by one. They threw a handkerchief up in the air and everyone had to laugh until it landed on the ground where they had to look very serious. Susanna was one of the last two, competing with an older woman named Sue Barlow. When she saw how serious Susanna was about winning, Sister Barlow laughed and then Susanna won. Here is a silly faces contest from a family reunion:
Turning 10:
Talmage and Susanna are 20 months apart in age and were good friends as they were growing up. This picture was at Dead Horse Point State Park:
Susanna at her 5th grade dance festival. She had Mrs. Siebach that year and had some good friends in the class who unfortunately lived kind of far away and didn't go to Canyon View with her:
I started teaching Susanna on the violin when she was about 9. It didn't take long for me to realize that things would go a lot better if Susanna had a different teacher. She was also pretty sure that I should NOT practice with her. She was very independent and did a good job practicing on her own:
At the end of Susanna's 6th grade year, everyone living at our house ran the Foothill 3K except for Camille who went in the Burley:
At the cemetery for Alice's burial:
Here's a video of Susanna and Talmage--I'm not sure who the videographer is but it's entertaining:
Happy Birthday, Susanna! We sure are glad to have you in our family!
The original post was written in January of 2015. I wrote an update at the bottom of this post in March 2021. A few months ago, a friend of mine told me about something she was doing in her family to help her family function better. Her teenage autistic son had been struggling a lot so they had been working with behavior therapists to help him and this "Do Dots Family System" had been recommended. As she described it, I was greatly intrigued since it sounded like something I wanted to implement at my own house. I looked into it and decided to purchase it right after Thanksgiving. Here is my review of how it has worked for us over the last six weeks or so. The basic idea of the chart is that children need to take care of their responsibilities before they get any privileges. It strongly reinforces the concept of "Work Before Play" . The chart helps children see in a very visual way that, until they have completed their responsibilities, they are on Le...
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