barrett: 126 monts old

 

Barrett had a fun and exciting October!  He is on Safety Patrol at school, so three times a week he stays after school to help car riders get into their cars, and gets to take down the American flag from the pole.  He claims the flag weighs a ton!  We went to the STEAM Night at the local high school, and Barrett and his best friend Walker got to make a lava lamp, dirt pudding, slime, an airplane, and a biomechanics hand. Such a cool night! And for Halloween, Barrett was Brock from Pokemon.  We walked miles around the neighborhood trick-or-treating!  Barrett has also had two choir concerts, one for multiple elementary schools, and the other was a performance for a school assembly for Veteran's Day.  Very cool!

Likes:  choir, Pokemon

Dislikes: math homework (though he does like division now)

171 months old

How is October over just like that?? This month has been a whirlwind - softball season, a rush to get quizzes and tests completed before the new grading period, our first high school football game, birthdays, and of course Halloween!  Britton dressed up as the Lego Batman Ballerina Fairy, a very specific "Lego Batman" character costume, which we constructed from Amazon finds.  This was the first year that Britton didn't want to go trick-or-treating. Instead, she volunteered to stay home and hand out candy, and was so great with the little kids, complimenting their costumes and letting them grab extra candy!

Softball season is officially over!  Her team went into the end of season tournament as #1, but had an upset loss in the first round.  That's ok!  They played a great season, and Britton really developed her skills on first base and in batting.  And she had a phenomenal team of girls this year.

Likes:  playing softball, dying her hair

Dislikes: our cold front warming up - she misses cold weather