Happy 8th Birthday, Brenna! Another year has come and gone and I love looking back and seeing all you have done and accomplished. This is the year that you fell in love with performing arts. You traded in diving for singing/dancing/acting and you haven't looked back since. You LOVE it.
But we'll start with school. You had a great 1st grade year. You loved your teacher Mrs. Cyrek and you had a great group of friends in your class.
Here's your First Grade School picture right when you turned 7 and the next picture is just before you turned 8.
A really cool school accomplishment this year was that your design won the Race for the Cure T-shirt design contest. We went down to the big Race for the Cure event in West Palm and you and your art teacher, Mrs. West were presented with an award. Your design said "Hope you are Ofishally Cured" with a drawing of a fish.
This year was really all about Annie Jr. We started ballet at Performing Arts Academy and there was a poster announcing auditions for Annie Jr. It said ages 8 and up but you really wanted to do it. I asked Ms. Elizabeth if the age limit was strictly enforced and she told us it would be a very big commitment but if you wanted to audition you could. You loved Annie the movie and recently, you had gotten a kids meal toy that played "Maybe" and it came with the lyrics. You practiced that song over and over again and when it came time to audition you were really really nervous. You fought back tears because you didn't know anyone and many of the kids seemed a lot older. But you sang and you danced and you got the part of Molly, the littlest orphan. You rehearsed every Saturday for 4 hours and loved every second of it.
You love gymnastics and while last summer was the year of the cartwheel and this summer was the year of the back walk over. I think you and Lily spend more time upside down that right side up.
You and Lily are best friends one moment and enemies the next.
You still love and cherish time with Molly. This year when upset over a disagreement with a friend, I said, "well Brenna there is no such thing as a perfect friend." And your response was, "Yes there is, there's Molly."
Your summertime was filled with lots of fun performing arts camps and you also played the Evil Queen's cat in Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, the musical.
I love you, Brenna. You continue to exhaust me with your emotional intensity. And you continue to amaze me with your talents and achievements. Hope this 8th year is your best yet!
