Soren and Reese Stories: Good Stuff

Today the girls brought home their 1st 6 weeks report cards. All A's!

This was Reese's first official report card as Kindergarten is given letter grades rather than scores. She was excited about her report and will see her name on the honor roll wall.

Soren is having to work a little harder for those this year. The 6th grade teachers told us at the beginning of the year not to be surprised if our straight A students brought home their first B this year. It is a transition year to get the kids ready for junior high school next year by teaching them study skills and giving them greater responsibilities. Soren seems to be doing well so far, and, as always, is balancing her school work with swim team, running and choir.

Today with her report card there was a letter that said she was one of 8 kids chosen to participate in a new extracurricular program called First Lego League. The students will be working on a biomedical research project and robotic game designed to help our students work on projects in the biomedical and engineering fields. There will be a contest in December where our team will compete against others in the region and will be judged on teamwork, technical proficiency, project presentation and technical design. Wow. Sounds interesting. I thought it was neat that she was one of the few chosen to represent our school. She will have to work on this 3 days a week after school and go straight from there to swim team, so we will see how that works out.

In addition to this honor, she and Reese both earned "Student of the Month" (Soren for 6th grade and Reese for 1st grade) in PE! I asked Reese what you had to do to earn this and she said "Listen, pay attention, and win all of the races". Apparently they are faster than the boys in their grades (dad's genes kicking in!).

I am glad they brought home such good reports from school, because we skipped school yesterday with all of the cousins to visit the State Fair of Texas. It was a blast. Everyone should go to the fair; there is so much to see and do. We were there for 6 hours and needed a few more hours to see all we wanted to see. Enjoy these pictures and check out the video of Parker and his great driving skills that he obviously inherited from his mother :)

One last note. A Reese funny. The girls hang their wet swim suits in the garage each night after swim team. Tonight Reese was getting ready to leave for practice and needed her suit from the hook, so she opened the door from the laundry room to the garage and grabbed the suit without having to step out of the house. The problem was that she was completely naked and the garage door was open. Pete exclaims "Reese! Get inside!" Her response "Dad, I AM inside!" Don't you hate it when they are right?!

These are always my favorite animals at the fair. I want one.