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| Memorial Day was rainy and cold here-- pretty typical weather for the holiday weekend. We started the day at a memorial service to honor our veterans. |
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| After the ceremony, we went to Abe's final soccer game. His team played beautifully. |
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| They ended the tournament by winning 1st place in their bracket and 3rd place overall. The boys were pretty happy with the medals they received. |
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| Abe's teacher is expecting a baby so we are making a quilt to give her. It might seem crazy to start a quilt when there are only 2 weeks of school left, but Becky wanted to wait for the teacher's ultrasound to know what color to make the quilt. It's a girl! Abe picked out the fabric and is laying out the design. Becky sews it together. Making a quilt would be a great project for a math class-- so many calculations and lots of geometry. |
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| Abe played in a piano recital on Tuesday. This was the first time his teacher held her recital on a night other than Sunday and she did it specifically so Abe could come. Abe plays the piano like he plays soccer-- he looks like he's having fun! |
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| Gibson's class took a field trip to the library this week and he got his own library card. |
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| Sofi also had a piano recital this week. She played "Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven as a solo and "Hungarian Rhapsody #2" by Liszt as a duet. The Liszt piece was especially a crowd pleaser! |
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| On Friday we reached another milestone and barely realized it. We take turns reading the Book of Mormon at bedtime. Gibson was halfway through his verse before we noticed he wasn't asking for help sounding out words or complaining that his verse (Jacob 4:5) was too long. He just kept going, word after challenging word. We're all readers now! |
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| School is almost out for the summer so we made a list of things we want to do this summer and posted it on the refrigerator. We've already checked one thing off the list-- we've moved our picnic table into the shade for lots of al fresco dinners. And we realized we meant that we want to go swimming at Jackson Park, not Hawthorne Park. Lots of fun ahead! |
2 comments:
Go Gibson! That is exciting to have all independent readers. Reading the Book of Mormon aloud sure helps with that.
From the picture of the squares, it looks like the quilt for Abe's teacher will be beautiful. What a fun project for Abe to help with, and great job winning 1st in the tournament.
Lots of end of school year fun. I love this time with such high anticipation of the summer.
Looks ambitious... I have never made a quilt before. I have to stick to things that don't matter if the math doesn't quite add up!
That cape turned out wonderfully.
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