Quianna

We have been having football games as a family on the weekend. She has become quite a thrower! Brian and I were just talking about giving her the opportunity to participate in sports because her coordination has been coming together so well lately.

She has also been excelling at the violin. Just a few weeks ago we went to her first orchestra concert. It was a district wide event. In the Spokane School District, each 5th and 6th grader are required to be involved in either band or orchestra and so the concert was of all those students. I think they said there were around 2,800 performing in the arena that night! It was fun, even though we were looking at the back of her head as she was playing (I couldn't find her because I had forgotten my glasses...oops!) because they had the groups facing the center of the arena floor and we were sitting behind her group.

Before the concert we stopped by Fred Meyer's and bought her a Symphony bar which Brian said was a tradition from his mom. She bought him a Symphony bar after every performance, starting with his first spelling bee (he thinks). I thought it was cool since she is in a "symphony" the title fits. Below is a picture of Brian explaining the tradition and giving it to her.

Quianna just went through a difficult time of telling her mom she wants to be baptized in the LDS church. She had been praying about it and was given her answer from Heavenly Father that it was the right thing to do. Since then (the beginning of April) we have been praying for Quianna to have strength to talk to her about it and for Brook to have an open heart. Our prayers were answered on Saturday. Though Brook didn't say yes, she didn't say no and she said that she felt 95% good about it but she thinks the 5% will come. She doesn't have anything against Quianna getting baptized, she's worried about her becoming a member of the church.

We are very proud of Quianna and her decision and also the strength and courage she had to tell her mom how she felt. She has grown up so much in the past few months.
She's a little embarrassed that she won't be 8 when she gets baptized (like most kids in the church) but today she shared with me that she thinks it's cool that when she is baptized she will have more years of sins washed away.... let me see if I can explain her thinking. Since most kids were baptized when they were 8, they only had 8 years of sins washed away and when she is baptized, they will have more years after they were baptized and she will be clean as new!
I thought it was really cute and we had a good chuckle about it during primary.

Quianna has also become really good at math. She has started to love learning. Last night she asked each of us to ask her a science question and then a math question. I was so impressed because when I was homeschooling the kids during the summer last year when ever I would say the word divide she would plug her ears and say "Don't say that word!"