Shelby is 11
Shelby Lu had a cat birthday to celebrate turning 11 this year. She has made new friends in our ward out here and decided she did want to have a party. We went to the movies to watch some animated yeti kid show that the girls all thought was adorable. Then we headed back to my house for a taco dinner, cat cake, and games.
Shelby is turning out to be an amazing artist. She draws on everything, to point that she gets in trouble at school. But we've been able to make some agreements with her teacher to be sure she can draw on the back of assignments if she has finished the complete assignment. She loves to draw pokemon animals most of all, but she will draw almost anything she is asked to.
Shelby loves her cats, she now has four. We had two for the last five years, hobbes and lulu. They moved here with us and have been in the shop out front of the house. They are suppose to stop the mice but they mostly just kill bats. We got two new cats when our friend got married and needed to get rid of her cats to move. So we put the new two cats in the barn. Snowball and honey are the new cats and they are Shelby's favorite. She takes care of them all by herself and is very attentive.
Shelby struggles to make friends at school or talk to other people instead of being alone at recess. She is a true introvert, but she does want to make friends. So we work on her connecting with people, most of the time she connects with them over cats. She seems to find all little girls who love cats, and they pretend to be cats together.
Most days here at the house, Shelby is outside running. She runs in the field, out in the forest, and runs around and gets stuck in blackberry bushes. She comes back inside daily bleeding from scratches. She doesn't seem to mind, she gets a bandaid and goes right back outside.
Shelby is turning out to be an amazing artist. She draws on everything, to point that she gets in trouble at school. But we've been able to make some agreements with her teacher to be sure she can draw on the back of assignments if she has finished the complete assignment. She loves to draw pokemon animals most of all, but she will draw almost anything she is asked to.
Shelby loves her cats, she now has four. We had two for the last five years, hobbes and lulu. They moved here with us and have been in the shop out front of the house. They are suppose to stop the mice but they mostly just kill bats. We got two new cats when our friend got married and needed to get rid of her cats to move. So we put the new two cats in the barn. Snowball and honey are the new cats and they are Shelby's favorite. She takes care of them all by herself and is very attentive.
Shelby struggles to make friends at school or talk to other people instead of being alone at recess. She is a true introvert, but she does want to make friends. So we work on her connecting with people, most of the time she connects with them over cats. She seems to find all little girls who love cats, and they pretend to be cats together.
Most days here at the house, Shelby is outside running. She runs in the field, out in the forest, and runs around and gets stuck in blackberry bushes. She comes back inside daily bleeding from scratches. She doesn't seem to mind, she gets a bandaid and goes right back outside.
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