growing up

Oh, this girl of mine.....she's growing up!

That is her third grade picture.  She looks so much older than this one from last year:

Right now she's really (REALLY) into Minecraft.  I only let her play 20 minutes a day, if at all, thinking I could keep this obsession from taking over her life, but even though she hardly gets to play, she talks about it all the time.  She reads books about it, plans her strategies, makes masks in order to act out Minecraft, makes her own Minecraft books....even makes Minecraft things out of legos....

She always has gotten stuck on things and talked about little else while she's in that phase.  I guess Minecraft is just the flavor of the month.