Halloween is the New Christmas & Thanksgiving is the New Arbor Day

Halloween is three days away. Everyone I know had a crazy busy weekend. There are parties and carnivals and costume contests and more parties. It is like everyone realized that December is too busy to host parties so they all decided to do Halloween instead. Except Wal Mart- I was there on Tuesday and they had already cleared out all of the Halloween stuff from the Garden Center and replaced it with Christmas stuff.

Even though everybody knows that Thanksgiving is next- we should just give up on Thanksgiving and move Christmas to November and Thanksgiving to December. THEN maybe everybody could be thankful for the stuff they got.

Determined

We have a video of Loredana at about 13 months old. Emma has a coke from McDonalds and Loredana is crying for some. Emma just ignores her until Doug tells her to share it. Emma holds it out, but won't let Loredana take the cup. Loredana keeps crying until Doug tells Emma to let her hold it. Emma holds it out for Loredana to take it and she just pushes the cup away. She was just too mad to accept it at that point. That is Loredana in a nutshell.

Last week she informed us at dinner that a boy hit her in PE but she didn't do anything to him. As she went on with the story we found out that they were running around the field and Loredana passed this boy, so he got mad. That is also Loredana in a nutshell- if someone else can run that fast, so can she. Besides she loves to run.

At Drill Team on Thursday, the girls were doing gymnastics. For their last turn they each got to pick whatever trick they wanted to do. When it was Loredana's turn she said to the teacher, "What was that one I couldn't do and I cried?" THAT was the trick Loredana wanted to do, the one she couldn't. That is Loredana in a nutshell.

She draws about 35 pictures a day and she is a natural artist, but she restarts drawings when she knows they don't meet her standards-and she can already draw better than I can.
She has overcome so many obstacles from asthma to speech to middle child to young for the grade she's in to stitches and staples in the head and surgery on her kidneys.

Loredana is a determined, competitive perfectionist. Watch out world-here she comes.