Amelia - 2nd Grade

Jacob

Jacob attended his first Middle School Lock-In at the church. Basically it's kinda like the elementary ones I ran but with the added bonus of staying up as late as you want. Jacob said he had lots of fun playing games and video games. He said he fell asleep around 1:00 am to about 4:00 am, during the movie they were watching. I was like, "Why did you keep sleeping? Didn't you get bored?" (My thinking was everyone was asleep.) His response: "No, I just went back to playing video games with everyone else." Oh! Everyone else was still awake!! Geez, aren't I a dummy.
Despite the fun Jacob was exhausted and wrecked the next day. He literally fell asleep during Children's Worship leaning on a bookshelf. Then afterward while he was trying to talk to me, his eyes kept shutting on him. lol Lucky for him the Mehlenbacher gave him and Dan a ride home from church so he didn't have to stay thru Sunday School. Jacob slept until about 3:00 in the afternoon, got up for a bit, and then went back to bed at 8:30.
I asked him if it was worth it? If he would do another lock-in? He said of course, it was really fun.

Jack

Jack has decided to play the clarinet for band this year. He is very excited about his choice since he tells me how good he is already at playing it. The other day he was playing "Name that Tune." I will say I was able to hear the tune for Darth Vader's entrance from Star Wars but after that not much  else. He seemed genuinely surprised each time I said I didn't know. He would put his clarinet done and say something like, "What?! That was the Jeopardy theme song!" I am just glad he is excited.
I hope he finds something he really likes. Jack has such potential to be good at so many things. I believe once he finds the thing he likes to do his hard work drive will kick in and he will just take off with it.

Amelia

Amelia performed her first Little-Pups Pom routine! She does a pregame performance at the Pasco High football games. She was a little stressed about her uniform before it started: her shirt was too big, she didn't have the skirt, her shoes were too sparkly. BUT once she got it all on and saw her friend Kate she was good to go!
For her routine she was a little off at the beginning since they started so quick but she caught up and rocked the rest of the performance. The music even cut out during half their song but the girls just kept on dancing. Their high school instructor really held it together.
After the dance all the girls got pizza. Amelia just floated around the whole rest of the night chatting with her friends and having a good time. She is very excited about the next upcoming performances.