Henry began and ended his week with birthday parties. Two of his classmates celebrated this week. The first was a wiffle ball party and instead of gifts, the kids all brought sport drinks. The second was last night at a trampoline park. All of Henry's classmates were invited, but when the only other boy in his class was unable to make it, Josiah got to go so Henry would not be the only boy there. They arrived at Sky Zone during the evening so they could be part of the Glow Party. Almost as soon as we got there, they turned off all the lights and it was a blacklight sort of night. Henry made it up the ladder climb several times. They had a Wipeout game with giant rotating arms - one arm they had to jump over and the other they had to duck under. Then the arm changed directions on them. That was an exhausting few minutes. They both had fun. The girls in Henry's class are not the shy type, so they all ran around and had a good time.
Caroline finished out her week well. She did very well on her Latin test - dropping a hundred. She also scored well on her speech in ELA. When the speeches were finished, her teacher said she got most improved. Caroline told me, That's what happens when you bomb the first speech. Whatever works. She also told me to keep these grades in mind when she gets her science test back on Monday.
Josiah started out his weekend making a Dead Pool video including a little dance number from *NSYNC's Bye, Bye, Bye. I was his videographer and took short segments of video for him. He gave me very specific directions on where to stand, what to focus on, panning left and right; he knew what he wanted the final product to look like. I was amazed when he showed me the finished video. The kid can edit. I told him to make sure I got videographer credit for when he makes it big one day.
Saturday morning, Henry had another cross country meet, the Eye Opener. His meet last week had 10 teams. This meet had 150 that came from all over the state, and some from Georgia. It was held on the campus of USC-Upstate and it was packed. The colleges competed the evening before. Henry's group of JV boys had 844 competitors, so it was a lot of kids running a 5K all at once. He came, he ran, he got the t-shirt.
Today, Josiah fixed up Henry's bike so Caroline could ride it. Her bike is pink with streamers and she was not about to set foot on it, even though I reminded her how excited she was when she originally picked it out. They rode around our pond. When they stopped their bikes on the other side of the pond, the ducks immediately went over to them - they're used to people stopping and feeding them. This was the first Sunday in a long time where no one was fishing at the pond - the game warden was parked at the end of it.
In food news, Caroline made herself quesadillas with our Texas tortillas. Benson, too, missed the tortillas and wanted just a sniff.
Josiah made homemade chocolate chip cookies. He picked a highly rated recipe that had fancy steps like separating out the egg yolks. When it came time to cooking them, Josiah mentioned that he hoped they turned out well. Instead of 1 1/4 teaspoons of cornstarch, he put in one teaspoon, forgot the measurement, and put in a second teaspoon. Then instead of mixing all the dry ingredients separately, all the wet separately, mixing them together, then adding the chips, he just threw everything in the same bowl at the start. They turned out delicious and we were very grateful for the homemade bake. He can bake for us anytime.
Henry did very cool city scene on Etch-a-Sketch. Hidden talents...
This coming week the kids have a short week of school. The boys are going to House Camp in North Carolina and Caroline is going to Barrier Island on the coast.
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