Our 6-year old Princess

While I'm giving updates, here's one on our one and only princess of the family!

Katelynn is an amazing little girl.  She is very bright and fun, loving and thoughtful.  She makes sure to challenge me as a parent on a very regular basis.  I am sure the older she gets, this will continue to be the case. 

School is going great for her.  She seems to enjoy her teacher and her classmates and looks forward to going each day.  She has been making further strides in learning to read and enjoys anything related to crafts.  Most days she will come home from school and immediately want to get working on her writing or reading homework.  She will sit for hours just writing letters and drawing pictures.  I see a lot of myself as a child in her.  Dance is still her favorite after-school activity, and we are planning on trying soccer once again this spring. 

We are trying to work with self-esteem and social skills some with Katelynn.  I see it as an issue a lot more than her teacher is seeing in school.  Katelynn strives for perfection and I am finding at home, she becomes upset and fustrated when something is not exactly as she wants it.  I do feel like we are making progress on this.  Just this week, we had some "imperfections" with homework, and she did not get nearly as upset as she has been over the past month.  We aren't really sure how much of this may be related to her previous experience with her preschool teacher and just her personality, but we feel so blessed to have a wonderful kindergarten teacher for Katelynn that I really feel is making all the difference this year.

Her urology issues have escalated on us lately, but we are working hard at trying to get a balance with them so that it doesn't affect her schooling.  She has been having some accidents at school some, and our fear is that this could be part of her struggle with self-esteem.  Hopefully we can get it all worked out soon and make some improvements. 

All that being said, we are so proud to have this little girl as our daughter!  It is going to be an exciting, emotional, and hopefully fun decade ahead as we watch her grow even more.. but I wouldn't complain if time went really, really slowly!