All about Ashley

Ashley had a lot of big end of the school year things in May. First, she had her yearly devotional. She did a good job with her memorized part and the songs they sang were really pretty. They talked a lot about Joseph Smith and the Restoration and also about the things they learned from completing the Master Project. Ashley was one of 3 kids that had a mask on during it(since it is a private school, a lot of students stopped wearing a mask months before the state lifted the mask mandate for schools. We told her that she should continue to wear her mask until it was no longer required). 

The school also had their dance festival. This year, Ashley got to do the long awaited stick dance from the Philipines(I think)

My video was too long to post, but they did their dance to the "Lollipop" song and the sticks would bang twice on the perpendicular sticks and then once together. The girls would step in the middle with each leg and then out when the sticks bang together. Ashley even did a cartwheel through the middle, but I didn't get a picture of it. She had a lot of fun with this dance.

And then there was her master project presentation. She had 20 minutes to present the things she learned about Mother Teresa this year. She decided to do a power point and created it mostly on her own. Danny and I both went to watch her present. She did a good job and she was so glad to have the Master Project over. She got an A on it, by the way.

Around the end of school, Ashley was playing outside during a wind storm and something blew into her eye. She was complaining about it and Danny and I were thinking she was being overdramatic about it. Finally, we showed her how to flush it with water. Unfortunately, that still didn't work and she didn't sleep well that night. She was crying around 5am, so I got her in the bath and tried using the bathtub faucet to flush it out of her eye. I took her to the doctor that day and they put numbing drops in her eye and something that made her eye glow under a black light.

The doctor found something small in there and flushed her eye with some saline drops. She said it came out and we went on our way. She started complaining about it again that night when the numbing drops wore off. So we went back to the doctor the next morning(this was with our pediatrician). He did the same thing with the numbing drops and the glow in the dark drops. He said that the eye lid looked swollen, so that was probably the cause of the irritation and that it should get better over the next 48 ours. He said there was a small possibility that there was something stuck to the inside of her eye lid and that if she still felt irritation after a couple of days that we should go to an eye doctor. When she complained about it 2 days later, I called an eye doctor. I didn't see what he did differently, but he found something small in her eye, removed it and told us to keep her eye moist with eyedrops for a few days until it heals all of the way. She has been fine since then. Who knew something could get so stuck in your eye.