YIKES! The day has finally arrived. I am officially the mother of a teenager. How can that be? Time has flown by so fast. In honor of Maryna's big day, I'll reveal 13 facts about her.1. She is an amazing soccer player! She has achieved so much in her 9 years of playing soccer and continues to amaze me with her achievements.
2. She is right-handed and left-footed. Weird, huh?
3. Her first word was "Uh-oh" but one of her very first words was "ludicrous"
4. She now wears the same size shoe as I do (big feet on both sides of the family).
5. She loves to shop (I've taught her well). In fact, for her birthday she didn't want a party, just wants to go shopping with friends and get some ice cream.
6. Her grandfather (my dad) call her "boat dock" in honor of her name. It's the only real nickname she's ever had and my dad is really the only one that can get away with using it.
7. Her middle name is Renee - which is also my middle name and my sister-in-law's first name and my niece's middle name.
8. She has been on the honor roll every year at school. We are so proud of her academic achievements.
9. She learned to use a sewing machine before I did. Maryna is taking family consumer science (AKA Home-mec) this semester and sewed a gym bag as a project.
10. Has some of the fastest fingers I've ever seen. She can text message so quickly and does it often. In fact, her grandpa (dad's dad) added texting to his cell plan because of Maryna.
11. Received her first recruitment letter this year. She had a letter taped to the outside of her locker during the first week of school trying to recruit her to the cross-country team. Since she is her mother's daughter, she turned the coach down. He gave her a hard time about it. She said that distance running is boring (I agreed) and yet ran the mile in gym class yesterday and beat one of the top cross-country runners at the school.
12. She has a MAJOR sweet tooth (just like her dad). Fortunately she's athletic and young so it doesn't impact her right now.
13. Maryna was baptized this year at church.
Happy birthday, kiddo. We love you and are so EXTREMELY proud of you.
