Happy 11th Birthday, Lydia!

Lydia celebrated her birthday in November!  It landed on Thanksgiving Day, so Grandma had a turkey cake for her!

It was fun to celebrate her birthday with some of her cousins.  I also took her and two of her friends out on a birthday date.  We ate lunch at Noodles, when to see the musical "Beauty and the Beast" at a community theater, and topped it off with hot chocolate at Starbucks!

Lydia is 54.5 inches tall and weighs 66 pounds. Lydia is having a good 5th grade year.  It has worked out okay for her to start an hour early with a math class at the middle school.  She's not crazy about getting up early, but she almost always gets her homework done at school when her 5th grade class is doing math, so that's a bonus.  She is doing her research project on "dreams".  Why did she pick this topic?  Because she is a very vivid dreamer.  She also does a lot of talking in her sleep!  In her free time, she loves reading, listening to music, playing games on her kindle, and doing artsy stuff.  She says when she grows up she wants to live in Maine and write books.

Lydia joined a kids club at a local church this year and she recently got to go on a fun winter retreat!