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Monday, March 18, 2024

Rosie's two front teeth

This girl came off the bus the other day missing her second front tooth! She has a huge gap now and is so proud of it. :)


Thursday, March 14, 2024

Local theater weekend

It's theater season at the local schools! Last weekend we went to see several of our neighbors in the middle school's Into The Woods production!

Then we went to see Seussical Jr. that one of the private schools put on.

Monday, March 11, 2024

Battle of the Books

Eleanor last year was the alternate for her school's Battle of the Books team and this year she made the team! The competition was this week at the regional library. Her team has not made it into the final round in years. There were 12 elementary schools competing.

At the end of the first round, there were two teams that had made it to the final and a 4-way tie for third place. Eleanor's team won the 4-way tie to come in as the third team in finals.

In the finals, their team ended up tying for 2nd place, the final score being 11-10-10. It was so close!! We are so proud of her!

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Basketball

All the kids played basketball this winter. It was Ben and Rosie's first seasons and Eleanor and Jane's second. 

Eleanor was on the Monarchs. Chris ended up coaching her team kind of unexpectedly, but they ended the season undefeated!

Jane was on the Lynx. She also had an amazing season and ended undefeated (though her last game was a tie).

Ben was on the Mavericks and had a great time with his buddies.

Rosie was on the Dream and also had a great time! Chris ended up co-coaching her team, too, as her coach ended up being one of his buddies.

One of Jane's buckets (she scored 8 of the team's 25 points in this game):

Eleanor on the free throw line:

Ben holding court with Jane's team:

Jane throwing in and getting set for her first tip off:

Ben's team: 

Ben's first point scored:

Coach Anne came to watch the girls play one night!

Rosie scored a few times this season! Sadly I didn't get them on video, but she was very excited about the time she got to do the tip off! Much room for improvement, but she loved it!

Eleanor had been making some good progress but none of her shots were falling until she scored 5 points in one game!

Overall it was a great season all around. The kids really enjoyed it, though the schedule was a big headache for us. Hopefully if they all play again we can get a slightly better schedule!

Monday, March 4, 2024

Kid dates 7

Eleanor and I watched Harry Potter 8 and had popcorn for our January date. 

Jane and Chris got milkshakes (and fast food).

Rosie and Chris also went for milkshakes and then went crafting at the library.

Ben wanted to do what his sisters did and get a milkshake and go to the library (which we did), but we did a pit stop to ride a train on the way!

Thursday, February 29, 2024

February wrap-up

February was cold and still lacked snow. I think we are all ready for spring now that winter was a bit of a bust for the second or third year in a row. It was full of basketball, school, and too much time indoors!

Eleanor is now on the safety patrol at school. 

Gaby came down to visit and got to see some basketball games.

Eleanor started cotillion with her friend Hannah.

I got to go up to Northern Virginia without kids to celebrate Eric's 40th birthday! We did an escape room, hibachi dinner, and got to play cards and relax together without interruption!

Jane got to go out to eat with friends for one of their birthdays.

Rosie has been trying to teach herself piano.

Rosie and Ben celebrated 100 days of school! Rosie had 100 hearts on her shirt, and Ben had 100 buttons.

Eleanor got to go to a mystery party where they all solved a case together.

I found this sweet note Ben wrote to his teacher. Here's what he said: "Thank you for being my teacher. I love you. Give me more math. I know times. Thank you. Love Ben. To Miss Forgit." (Obviously the spelling is his own.)

We had a fun family game night. We played Clue and Hues and Cues.

Jane has still been doing her face painting.

Jane got to go to a sleepover with friends one night so we had the other girls stay over at our place. It was a late night.

Grandma also came down for the weekend to watch Bonnie and Riser and we met them at Ben and Rosie's basketball games. Then we went to grab lunch afterwards.

Some play time at the park!

Onward to March!