Today I have been feeling so blessed to have the good kids that I do. They are far from perfect, they are not the top students in their class, they are not the best athletes on the field, they are not the best behaved (oh we have so much work to do) but they are enough. . . to make me smile and be oh so proud of them.
A few of 2012's achievements
I will add pics and video later, I can't get the camera to work right now
In January, Luke was awarded student of the month in 3rd grade in the area of Science and Social Studies.
In February, RJ was student of the month in 1st grade in the area of Math. (Gigantic achievement for him.)
Today Tanner came home with a first place medal for his painting in the talent contest "Daydreams and Dandelions". (so excited for him).
In January, Khloee started Gymnastics.At the end of January, the teacher approached me and told me she thought she needed to move up a level. So we moved her to the next level, after being in that class for 3 weeks, her new teacher told me, "She is just this little ball of energy and muscle and I think we need to move her up to the next level." So here is my cute, timid, little, just barely 5 year old, in this class with 3rd, 4th & 5th graders. She acted intimidated, even though she said she wasn't scared. But she held her own and did awesome! Her teacher is great and told me she thinks Khloee will learn and progress really quickly and I am happy to see her get challenged a little bit more.
Luke just finished his season of basketball. His dad was his coach this season, which was tough for him at times because he felt like he had to sit a little more than the other kids did and when his dad gave him pointers, he felt like his dad was upset with him and was getting after him. (does that sound familiar dad?) But after his last game on Saturday, Kory and I were talking about how much his little team had improved over the season and how much Luke's game had come along. Kory was glowed as he talked about how Luke hustles all the time and never takes a play off.
I told Luke after the game how much his defense had improved and how much better he did this game. He looked at me and said, "Mom, I didn't even score one point". I was shocked because he was all over the place. And I told him he rebounded like crazy and caused them to turn it over so many times, he didn't need to score any points! Somebody else on his team had to do SOMETHING.
We signed the boys up for soccer (because they all wanted to play) as well as baseball (because their dad said they have to play. . . . not that they were sad about this at all). So Tanner and Luke have been going to try outs for the past 2 weeks. Tanner will be in Majors and Luke is actually supposed to be in Machine pitch age wise, but the rest of his friends are going into minors so we told him to go tryout.
They both did awesome!! Tanner did really well the first night of tryouts and Kory had one of the coaches tell him Tanner was amazing and probably one of the top 5players on the field. Well it must have gotten back to Tanner and went strait to his head because the next night he couldn't hit the ball to save his life. But he still did great and made it on a great team. We are excited to see him improve. We don't know if Luke made a team yet or not, but he says he is ok with playing machine pitch this year if he didn't.
RJ gets the privilege of having his mom be his soccer coach and his dad be his baseball coach. Lucky little guy, I feel bad for his coaches though. He has a tendency to get his feelings hurt easily and can dig his heels in and refuse to do anything until he gets his way. (We are working on that)
Like I said, they are awesome kids, just not perfect yet.
I can't forget our little scooter, who is no longer scooting, but walking and occasionaly running. . . and then face planting. She is the cutest dang thing and the only perfect one amongst us, just ask her dad!
