Our Little Dancer + Family Fun

Posted By Cari

We enrolled Lexi in a dance class this year, and she has had so much fun "tap-tapping" around the house after every class. It was finally her "recital day" this past Saturday and she was so excited. She's one of the youngest ones in the class, and has only been going since January (most of the girls started in September). But she still did a great job and had lots of fun. Here are some videos (filmed by Sam) and some pics.






Funny story: as Lexi was watching this video later, during the part where Sam says, "Do your tap-taps, Lexi" - she said (talking back to Sam's voice on the video), "I am doing my heel-togethers!"



Having a girl is a whole new experience!

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Later that evening we came back to the same place that hosted the recital (the Rockin R Ranch) for more fun.
The boys got to shoot a real antique "colt .45" (with wax ammo) and were very proud of themselves.


Lexi wished she had gotten "to shoot a gun too, because she had a hat."

The boys also tried their hand with a lasso, and we met up with some friends. Check out the difference of the poses of the boys vs. the girls in this picture!

But the best part - if you asked the boys - were the frogs! Too bad that we had to leave this one there with his mom and dad (I didn't want him to be a sad little froggy :-). The kids were really hoping for a pet.

Blue Ribbon Boy

Sam has had an amazing year in school (except for the asthma, broken ankle, and other various illnesses & injuries which caused him to miss a lot of days! - we say that this gave the other kids in his class a chance to keep up.) He's had both a wonderful classroom teacher and a fabulous gifted teacher who have given him many opportunities to shine.

This year he represented his school's 4th grade class along with his good friend Jake at a math competition among the district. Each school was allowed to bring a 2-person team from each grade (4th - 8th) from the gifted program. Every member of the team team got at least one medal, and Sam earned two (one in the Team Competition with Jake, and one for a competition called 24 (a card game where you have 4 numbers on a card and have to make a formula using all four numbers to equal 24 using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and/or division - the first person to make up a formula wins the card, the person with the most cards when time is called wins the heat). His school won overall out of the whole district among all the gifted progams!




Sam was also chosen as part of a 4-person team to represent the gifted program at his school in a district Creative Problem-Solving event. Each team had a scenario and had to write a skit showing how they'd solve it (done at school), then perform for the other teams and be judged. Sam's team won best solution (I think that's what they won...).

Great Job SAM!