Another birthday has arrived, the big 8, and second grade is just around the corner. And what can I say, it just keeps getting more fun! This past year has been full of new cool stuff, but here are some of the highlights:
1) Buckling the seat belt, consistently and correctly! After thousands and thousands of times loading and unloading out of car seats and boosters, he is now totally independent in both vehicle ingress and egress. He had been good getting out for a while, but only recently has he demonstrated the resolve to correctly buckle his seat belt every time, which is HUGE! Of course, you have to cut kids a little slack these days because they are in booster seats until they are 17.
2) Swimming strong! He did more swim lessons with the Jackson Swim Team last fall and this summer he can chase me across the deep end and almost catch me.
3) Tying shoes! We have special lessons and camps for everything else; swimming, music, every sport imaginable, art, video games, etc., but why no camp for shoe tying? After years of talking through how the "rabbit goes around tree and through the hole" he can finally do it. Of course his shoes still stay untied half the time!
4) Reading, lots! Pretty much a collection of books follows him around and he falls asleep every night with one in his hand.
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| He even has his favorite author, Dav Pilkey |
5) More adventures in fishing and hiking! Of course we have kept up our outdoor adventures and had several milestones over the past year:
A few weeks ago he reeled in his first fish from a boat.....
In the spring he did his first hike on the Cumberland Plateau and even got to go into a cave.....
He also made it through 6 miles of pretty hard trail at Natchez Trace with only one little bag of chocolate chip cookies!
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| The sign was for a birthday party but was super appropriate! |
5) We survived another season of baseball! This was the first year of coach pitch with no tee. In the field he stopped several grounders. As a batter, he got a hit most games and scored several runs. As a pitcher, I only hit one kid hard enough with the ball to make them cry....It was just his hand!!! He was fine!!!!
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| And this he is getting good at the sports picture, which is almost the most important part! |
6) Him still a genius! Not only does he read...he makes his own comic books!
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| This is the 8th Epic Novel by Brody Parnell |
Also, this past year he massively improved his math scores, got student of the month, and honor roll!
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| Bringin' home the hardware! |
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