Kevin: I guess Kevin's story begins Wednesday morning, when he left for winter camp. The 7th graders traditionally go to Spring Hill for 2+ days every year; Kevin had been to Spring Hill this summer, so, was familiar with the lay of the land.
Kevin returned Friday afternoon and said he had a blast. There was a dance Thursday night; not much to report...Kevin wasn't forthcoming with a lot of details, we don't think there was a lot of one on one dancing. The weather was cold, but, sunny. He did some tubing, some horseback riding, and pulled some late night pranks and hijinks.
Saturday was Kevin's turn taking the ACT. We had done some prep work...not a lot, just one practice test to get him familiar with the format and to identify if there were any common things that Kevin seemed to be messing up (turned out there was...he consistently was having trouble with multiplication of negative numbers and most of his grammar errors were not matching up parallel structure in nouns and verbs). So, we'll see how that goes.
Christopher: Another Saturday, another basketball game. Surprisingly, no complaints from the big guy before the game; happy to go and have at it. And he had a good day, two shots, one basket, some good defense, and one decent run down the court followed by the patented I'm-going-to-cut-and-forget-to-dribble moment.
Had some friends over for dinner on Saturday night; this brought one of Christopher's friends over and he, and she, had a great time running around and watching Disney Channel.
Sunday was the last indoor soccer game; Christopher had an assist on a sweet pass to the center of the goal and then had the game-tying goal in the 4th quarter as the game ended in a 3-3 tie. He had told me on the bench that he wanted to score a goal for Mom; when I remembered to mention to Suzanne that Christopher had said he wanted to do that Christopher chimed in that he wanted to score to make Suzanne feel better (Suzanne took a pretty nasty spill on the ice this morning and Christopher was quite traumatized that Mom was hurt and crying a little bit).
Matthew: Matthew comes to the basketball games; he gets bored quite easy. Happily, he has my Iphone, with his (and my) favorite game, FieldRunners to keep him happy and then, well, is just his usual goofy self
Matthew played well in the soccer game but hasn't been his usual dominating self for several games now. I definitely think Matthew could use a break from soccer, and may benefit from having a different non-Dad coach; he's left me with a lot of thinking to do about this.
