Peter had his 3rd/4th grade basketball tournament on the 19th. His team went in with no wins so we didn't hold any expectations. Peter got in a couple of baskets during his game!! Peter's team played well, but as usual were outmatched with height and defense. They were out first round, but had a good attitude about it. This was definitely a year of growth and learning. We're proud of the progress he's made this year!
We had the 21st off of school. Casey offered to stay home and grocery shop / do laundry while the rest of us joined friends and went to Banbury hot springs in Buhl. Alice loved had fun with Sophie and the other two paled around with friends.
Casey went up to Boise yesterday with his Dad to watch State basketball games. Kimberly won state for the 3a division!!! First time since 1952. It was a one day trip up and back, but they watched a handful of games and had a good day in Boise! Casey spent many years going to state games with his family, so they continue the tradition whenever they can.
Now that we're in between sports our days pretty much stay the same. A few updates . . .
Casey got "fired" from his PBIS coach position. He got put on this team last year, and has gone to many conferences / trainings. He's put a lot of work into this program for school. . . However, just because he can't make a training this summer (He'll be on his DC trip) they decided to take his position away and have a teacher with less "extra" things on their plates handle it. Funny enough he was told this and still had to go to Boise a few days later for the training since the new coach was out of town. I'm sure he'll still have a hand in this program; he's just no longer a head person for it in his school. Track starts soon for the middle school. Casey's ran off and on the last month, he fits it in between bad weather days and when his knee isn't hurting him.
Work is going well for me. I'm in a good groove and feel things are going well. I've processed a lot of new books lately, revamped our reading programs a bit, and am working on weeding out bad / unread books in the library and re-labeling all of the books that still have the old system info on them. My days are busy, but I do my best. I did a movie night with some friends a couple of weeks ago. We watched the new Emma that I haven't seen; it was pretty funny. I had a book club last week with some friends. It was such a sad book, but it pulled me in. Casey and I are still on our reading kick and we decided to read a few books together this year. We read Angels and Demon's at the beginning of the year, and now we're onto The Davinci Code.
Kendal had parent teacher conferences last week. Casey went and chatted up her teachers. They are impressed with her. She's a good student and a good kid and that reflects in many things. Kendal finished her last set of piano books!! She's gone through five sets of books in the last four years. She's now onto harder songs / concepts and will work on what she wants to to further her skills now that she's got all of the basics down! We're proud of her hard work with the piano and look forward to her skills continuing to flourish! Kendal has had a spa night, game night, and an escape room night for Young women's these past few weeks. She's taking on more being first counselor, and doing a good job of it.
Peter is onto a new set of books he's liking (wimpy kid series). He is liking STEM this semester! He dissected an owl pellet last week and said it was cool, but he gagged doing it. This week he got to shoot soda into the air with chemical reactions. He finished his Idaho history report and brought home his packet that he's worked months on. Peter had an activity days a couple of weeks ago where the boys took their favorite games and played around at the church. Now that basketball is over he's gotten to spend more time playing with friends after school. He's at Austin's as often as he can be, and got to go over to Wyatt's house last weekend to play.
Alice continues to love in person preschool, and is making good progress in online preschool. While I wouldn't have originally picked putting Alice in day care it's been good for her in many ways. She's learning to work with others, be respectful and listening to adults, and has so much fun playing with the other kids. She's going to go into Kindergarten well equipped! She's lately discovered the joy of video's and silly pictures on my phone. I have so many video's of her little sing song voice talking about her toys and random silly things. She is picking up words all of the time, and made it through her next set of early reader books recently!
