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| Sophie's school hosted an awards night this week and Sophie got an award for academic honors. In other words, her GPA is not too shabby. Sophie has had a great year in 6th grade, but her biggest achievements aren't easily measured. So here are the unofficial academic awards we would give her if we were in charge of honors night: a big hip, hip hooray for the B+ she worked her tail off to earn in Keyboarding, a high five for navigating the gold AND green sides of school after switching to 7th grade pre-algebra half-way through the year, an out-of-sight award for tackling a test on her first day in pre-algebra and muscling her way through the test (we're still in awe at the amount of algebra she understands intuitively), and three cheers for the essay she's writing to call for enforcing the school dress code. We're so proud of Sophie and can't wait to see what she'll do next. |
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| Earlier this Spring, Becky bought Sophie and Helen matching skirts. Because of their age difference, she's always tickled when she finds the same thing in both their sizes. When she picked Helen up from school on Friday, she noticed something funny and checked Helen's waistband. Yup, wrong skirt. And Helen had worn it all day at school. |
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| Here's Helen wearing her own skirt. We're a bit rushed around here in the mornings, but Becky can't believe she missed this one. |
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| Saturday we went out to the coast to play. The weather was beautiful, although the water was freezing as usual. Sophie, Abe and Helen enjoyed sliding down a bank of sand into the water. |
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| Gibson didn't want to get wet, but he enjoyed digging in the sand, throwing rocks in the waterfall and eating Jelly Bellies with Becky. We tried making a fire and cooking lunch on the beach, which was trickier than we imagined. Despite the wind, Brandan got a great fire going. So great in fact that it cooked our dutch oven potatoes in about 20 minutes. Well, they were probably done after 15 minutes, but we checked them at 20 and enjoyed blackened potatoes with plenty of ketchup and sand. Next time we'll eat at a picnic area and save the beach for sand castles and kite flying. |
3 comments:
Sophie, I hope your essay about the school dress code helps. . . I notice they don't pay much attention to their supposed code! You're a great girl and I'm so proud of you!
It looks like the beach was loads of fun. The wind sure does help speed up the cooking in a dutch oven. I love that we live close enough to the coast to make a little day getaway of it.
I am super jealous of your coastal getaway. :) Sophie is a wonderful girl! I can't believe she is old enough to be doing algebra and graduating from sixth grade! Helen is such a beautiful girl as well.
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