I used to watch the movie "Summer School" when I was a kid. Looking back, it is probably completely inappropriate but I watched it all summer long and memorized most of the movie. A short recap, it's about a bunch of troubled kids taking summer school and the teacher rising to the challenge of teaching them to pass the final so they can graduate. At the very beginning of the movie, there is a jock who comes to the first day of summer school and asks for a bathroom pass. He doesn't show up until the very end when they are about to take their final exam and says, "my zipper got stuck." The joke being that he was in the bathroom the entire summer. And of course this guy does very well on the exam!
That is my Ava. She's been going to school for two months and rarely has homework and seldom talks about her classes. Don't get me wrong, she loves going to school! She's a social butterfly who will talk all day long about her friends and activities but we infrequently hear about her actual schooling. Just a few short weeks ago I asked Ava what she was learning in math. She twirls her hair and responds, "I don't think I have that subject." What? No math? Of course you have math. So as final exams approached this week, Jack and I were a little nervous. What on earth has she done for 2 months to prepare for this exam? In typical Ava Mae fashion, she comes home with her bright smile yesterday to tell us she got a 100 on her math exam. Yes, MATH exam. The class she couldn't even tell us she was taking. Friends, I absolutely love this about her. Some might think she's a little ditzy, she's extremely loud when she talks, which makes you wonder if she can hear a thing you say, but SHE IS LISTENING. She's really a very smart cookie.
So how is she adjusting? Very well! Here are some recent pics:
Ava Mae's recent $6 hair cut. Score! Flor, the daughter of a coworker of Jack's, came to our house to cut hair. It's a lot of fun because she speaks NO English and well, you know I don't speak Spanish yet so we find ourselves laughing at with each other.
My biggest concern for Ava Mae was leaving her BFF, Munchie. They've been friends since they were just over a year old and they are EXACTLY alike. We are very thankful for the opportunity for these two goofs to Facetime one another.
Ava Mae loves the food here, just like the rest of us!
She really is our sunshine girl, who brings laughter and joy to our lives!
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