Beck Family: May 2011

Parker has finished 5th grade!

Parker has finished 5th grade! It was a year of many changes...moving back to the U.S., finding a new house, starting a new school while living in a hotel, starting a new sport, having to do homework, missing Dad for 3 months while he was still living in Budapest and meeting new friends. Parker handled all the changes very well and has excelled in his new environment. He worked hard to assimilate to the school structure and to learn how to do homework and study for tests. His dedication paid off and he received straight As for the entire school year. He is very excited to have some fun times this summer and start middle school in the fall.

Parker and Mrs. Edwards

End of year class party.
They divided into teams and competed to complete a page of brainteasers. The winning team members all got water balloon kits.

Playing in bubble pit at 5th grade end of year party

Lindsey has finished her first year of preschool!

It is hard to believe this year has passed so quickly! LRae has changed and developed so much! A year ago I could not have imagined the happy outgoing girl we have today. We are so grateful to her teachers and the rest of the Wee Wuns staff. What a blessing this year has been!

Lindsey performs at Mayfest 2011

Lindsey participated in the Cypress Academy of Gymnastics Mayfest program. She was proud to show us what she's been learning at gymnastics.

Ready to perform

She was surprised to get a trophy!
Parker explained that if she worked hard it would be the first of many, but that he would always have more!

Glenn and his gymnast girl

Lindsey's 4th birthday party

Lindsey was so so excited to have her 4th birthday party at Cypress Academy of Gymnastics. One of her friends had a birthday party there last fall about a month after we moved back to the U.S. and she started asking that day if she could have a birthday party there. She was still getting accustomed to the idea of FRIENDS. I wish I had a video of her face as she processed the idea of a PARTY WITH FRIENDS. A CAG birthday party became her vision of the perfect birthday. So, of course, we had to do it!!!

Happy Birthday Lindsey!

Birthday Gymnast

Birthday Friends

Birthday Presents

Birthday Cupcakes

Lindsey celebrates 4th birthday at school

Lindsey celebrating her birthday with her school friends

And we got to have the celebration outside!

Lindsey is 4 years old

Our sweet Lindsey is FOUR! We all love her so much! It's always surprising to me that we can look back on a year and be both happy and sad over the same developments and changes in our children. We're full of joy and pride that she's growing to be such an independent big girl, but it's also a little bittersweet.

Lindsey tidbits -

Nicknames - LRae, Lindsa-boo, Pooka, Pooka-girl
Favorite Toys - jeep, Hannah/Doria, writing and coloring, pillow pet
Favorite things to do - play with Parker, playing with friends on the street, swinging, driveway tennis, playroom cafe, Dora and Diego
Favorite Foods - Fruit Loops, granola bars, hot wings
Favorite Sayings - I love you...100 times, more than the whole neighborhood!
Activities - preschool, gymnastics
Loving school, teachers and friends
Daredevil! She still doesn't understand danger very well, but she's starting to be more careful. She will climb most anything, she thinks she's as strong and tough as the big boys and she bleeds alot.
Many of the funny speech pronouncations and phrases from her time in Hungary have disappeared.
Intent to grow up and speaks of her plans for kindergarten almost everyday.