Thursday, June 19, 2025

June 19

And here we are, officially into summer! School and swim team has ended, we've already made it through two camps and are nearly done with a third, never mind finding time for boating and other fun. It's been a busy summer for Little Sweetie just being a month in! 

     


Look how much our rising 6th grader has grown!

Besides the end of her school year, we also got to celebrate the graduating seniors in her life!

     

     

Celebrating A's graduation with the Wall family!



Congrats J. M.!


We'll miss you J!

     

Recreating  photo from the graduation slide show with K!
     

Another big quick off to summer was with the birthday sleepover for T will all of her besties!

     


Happy birthday, T!




The SCIT gang crafting perfume!



Such a great group of friends!


Little Sweetie did love having a full week off of school before Big Brother got out, so we enjoyed some special fun together. 


Making sure that free ice cream shirt from Spring Creek worked!



About the only kid in the neighborhood out of school meant she got the pool to herself!



     

S'mores and cornhole and a late bedtime with Momma and Daddy!



Special brunch with Momma and Daddy at Common Bond!


     

Bubble fun with our new bubble flower pot!



First time watching Goonies (on it's 40th anniversary--how am I so old?)!


Another summer time favorite? Boat time up on the lake with friends!


Fun with K and J!



Tired and cuddling with Momma after a busy lake day.


     


     

     

Having a great time with T!

But this summer wasn't just about fun, Little Sweetie was old enough that this year she had a quite a bit of responsibility and got to be a Crew Leader for our VBS and a Junior Volunteer for WOW Science Camp. It was a bit of an adjustment learning to be staff versus being a full participant, but she did a great job and is already planning on next year. 


Fun group of girls at VBS training!


     


My favorite VBS volunteers!



Celebrating Big Brother's birthday at VBS!


     

     

She did a great job of JVing in one of the 3-5 year old rooms at WOW! She also got to have lunch with her good friend and fellow JV, G (sadly, they were assigned opposite shifts), celebrate Big Brother's actual birthday with some Chuy's, and just overall enjoyed being able to still attend WOW.

And all those leadership skills came in handy as she helped run this year's WILLPower Lemonade Stand with many of her friends. 


     




The Lemonade Crew!


Sports have also been a big part of our summer. Little Sweetie has finished up her fractured wrist swim season with a strong performance and a healed wrist. She also got to enjoy her other favorite sport: basketball!


Excited that the times finally worked out that she could attend Frassati's basketball camp!



Putting her all in!


     

Work hard, play hard! Enjoying trying out the new climbing wall at Family Fun Night for Swim Team!


     


She ended the season at Divisionals, with a healed wrist and a PR in Breast and Back. We'll take it!



We also got to be the cheerleaders at one of L's baseball games!


And then it was time for one of Little Sweetie's favorite summer activities: Girl Scout Summer Camp! She and her friend T continued her tradition of attending the weeklong progressive riding program at Misty Meadow Ranch.  They had a blast!  We continue to love the responsibility and independence development that camp provides our girl.


Drop off!





Camp fun!


     

Moved up a level in her riding!


Pick up and Black Bear breakfast!


We also have been fortunate to get more time to cook with our girl.  Right now she's been focused on crafting sweet treats, but we are hoping to get more meals from our personal chef later this summer.  It's been so cool to see her do almost all of it on her own too!


     

Cowboy cookies!


     

Lemonade popsicles using the leftover lemonade from the WILLPower stand!


Height and Weight
Big weight jump this month to 92.2 pounds and up to 60 1/2 inches now.  She's going to grow off her growth chart soon! 

Beautiful and grown up at Frassati's graduation.


     


     

     




     

Just gorgeous during her brother's birthday pics!


Personality
Summer downtime has been awesome for her as she just gets to breathe and let her creative juices and silly ideas go full steam! She may be in tween territory, but she still just wants to have fun and be funny, as her dress up pictures below will demonstrate.

     

She scared me at the top of the steps one day in this outfit!


Developmental Milestones
She's been very into drawing lately and her hard work was rewarded with being her age group winner for the Parish Festival logo contest.


S and Little Sweetie were winners from their school.


Fun Tidbits
Father's Day was this month and it was a bit crazy since Daddy had to go into work for the majority of the day and Little Sweetie had to leave for camp, but we were fortunate we got to have breakfast with Daddy before we all headed out.


We love you Daddy!


Well that's it for this month. Next month will find us with 2 trips: Dallas for 4th of July and the end of the month will have us setting off on our Alaskan adventure. We are ready!

Good night, 

LSM

Little Sweetie's Momma