A long time has passed since Emily's birthday and we have been in Minnesota for about six weeks now. For the first few weeks, Emily did not have summer camps, so there was a lot of free time. Chad took her to the zoo, grandma came for a visit, we did some shopping, and there was plenty of relaxing.
 |
| At the petting zoo |
Emily also got a COVID booster shot shortly after we arrived in MN. Now that she is twelve, she was able to get the larger dose. For the past few weeks, she has been in day camp. She has done stop motion animation, jewelry making, volleyball, pottery, and horseback riding. This week she is doing advanced drawing and anime. These are two of her most passionate interests, so I am cautiously optimistic that she will enjoy them. I will find out more when I pick her up today, though.
 |
| Rides at the Mall of America |
As usual, she has had an easy time making friends at camp and even keeps in touch with some of them after the week is over. She has also been exchanging snail mail letters with her friend Laila who went to camp in the mountains of North Carolina for four weeks. She will be back in town at about the same time as we will be, so I expect that the girls will want to get together a bunch before school starts again.
When she is not at camp, Emily is hard at work drawing, story boarding, and making short stop motion animation videos. Her dream is to work for Disney one day and she has become really interested in attending California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) because she thinks that Disney looks carefully at their grads. Time will tell as to how all of that shakes out! :)
