Maia Year 6 Month 6 Battle Report

Maia is now 6 and a half, halfway to the teen years! She's an absolutely awesome little person. Here are some factual fragments that stand out to me:

♣ Bunnies are out and cats are in. Maia will sometimes speak more in cat language than English (2 meows is YES and 1 meow is NO).

♣ She takes good care of Ian and is surprisingly patient with his tantrums. They sometimes play together without adult interaction and I can hear them talking in the other room.

♣ She has her own style that involves 1 - 2 headbands (usually cat ears), multiple bracelets and her favorite cat-face boots.

♣ She took a weekly ballet class last year and is now enrolled in a weekly gymnastics class that she loves even more.

♣ Her areas are pretty cluttered but she does a great job of cleaning up when reminded. Her spaces in the house are a warren of unfinished crafts -- construction paper detritus, pipe cleaners wrapped around everything and stray shoelaces used to tie things together with ad hoc knots. She has a few half-written storybooks scattered around as well.

♣ She is incapable of sitting at the dinner table for very long. Most dinners involve her taking a bite then getting up and standing somewhere else in the room.

♣ She likes board games from the new generation (both she and Ian help Rebecca take her turns on Board Game Arena) and will play both sides of a game against a stuffed animal when no one is around. Once a game is done, she'll invent her own rules for the game using all of the pieces.

♣ She got interested in DuoLingo when I was studying Spanish and Korean last year so I let her play on her own a few times per week. She's done a whole unit of Russian/Cyrillic and occasionally falls back on Korean/Hangeul or Spanish when the Russian gets too hard.

♣ She is getting better at playing video games on her own but we still only let her play a few hours per week. Favourites include the educational games on her school laptop (Starfall and Prodigy), Contraption Maker (PC), Minecraft (Switch), and Mario Kart with auto-steering on (Switch). She is starting to watch me play Hearthstone and has recently started making her own cards.

♣ We put a climbing rope around a massive tree in the woods and (before the weather got cold) she would always stop there on the way home from the bus to practice climbing. Since then, she and Rebecca have cleared out a sizeable clearing in the woods that has become "Cattown".

♣ She loves reading and will consume books fast enough that the library makes much more financial sense right now than the book store. During Christmas, each time she unwrapped a book, it derailed the unwrapping process while she started the book. She will sometimes read multiple books in parallel, or pick a chapter at random to start from.

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