Super Sunday

While most people had football on the brain, we wanted to enjoy the sunshine, since it's been so foggy lately, and we had a mini-basketball clinic.  Since we haven't moved the basketball hoops yet, the focus was on the basics and everyone worked on making their way down the long driveway.

Even Daddy participated in the dribbling drills.

Kara has been reading like a mad woman.  A few days before winter break, we found out she was behind in accumulating her reading points for her second trimester goal and she pledged to get back on track.  This week she surpassed her goal with three weeks left of the trimester!  Kara has been playing indoor soccer and helping out at the JV girls basketball practices (since I am still kind of coaching) and she's eager to help in the kitchen, especially when she has cute aprons to wear.

Ben recently lost his bottom two teeth.  He actually pulled them both out, the first one while we were walking in the mall.   Ben is also doing a lot of reading and now, while we're driving in the car, he asks us to give him math problems to solve.  He loves everything about school and still has his sweet demeanor.  Just yesterday he told me that he wished he could just stay 6, even though he knows that he can't.

Jason is learning all of his letters and their sounds, thanks to Miss Shawn and the Letter Factory video.  He now likes to tell us what sounds the letters make and he enjoys getting books and "reading" the stories that he's heard us read to him time and time again.  Then he tells us that he has to get ready for his AR test (just like the big kids take at school).

With the nice, weather, we enjoyed our first picnic in our backyard.  We reminisced about how we used to have picnics at our Sherman Oaks house and we look forward to many more picnics at the Academy house.

We had to take a few selfies to capture our first picnic...

What a great sunny Sunday!