Here are the current stats:
Weight: 73 lbs (approx 25th percentile).
Height: 55 inches (approx 27th percentile).
Maya had a great year. She’s finished 5th grade and is understanding ideas and topics in a much more complex way. She’s got a fun group of friends and is really at home at her school after her second year there. She’s a busy lady between her karate, plays, piano, and homework but she seems to manage everything pretty well (with the occasional meltdown). Overall, she’s developed a new level of maturity while still keeping a strong childlike sense of fun and play.
Maya’s now a blue belt in Karate. She went through a strenuous training period in order to achieve it. She’s continuing her piano and had fun playing in a rock band this spring. She’s discovered that she’s very flexible (especially in her back) and has had fun exploring gymnastics at school this year. In the classroom, she’s enjoying reading historical fiction, learning math and doing science projects. She’s also a dedicated actor in the school plays. It’s fun to see her interests grow and expand each year.
Maya and her brother are still getting along pretty well. Maya definitely likes to prove that she’s right to her brother, but she continues to be patient and willing to play with him. They have a lot of fun together considering the age difference.
Maya is kind and thoughtful. She can get overwhelmed and stressed out over things that aren’t going her way. She finds all sorts of ways to express her sense of humor and her creativity. We are genuinely surprised by her unique ideas and thoughts.
Maya continues to tear through books. She loved the books that she read for school this year including
Blood on the River and
Chains. She liked
The Seventh Most Important Thing,
The Wonderling,
The Keeper of Lost Cities series,
The Olympians series and
The Warriors series, just to name a few. We are continuing to try to show her more grown up movies. She’s loved watching a few of the
X-men movies,
Black Panther, the
Back to the Future sequels,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and
Rear Window. She’s still watching
Star Trek: The Generation and has now seen a few episodes of
The Simpsons. Our eternal issue is finding time when she can see movies that we don’t feel comfortable showing Dexter yet.
The essential Maya is starting to emerge and it’s fun to see her truly independent self.
