sickness, I have a kidney infection - good thing is that kids are pretty independent
nathan- has been battling pretty bad migraines for a few weeks now
Genevieve woke up today with a cold
Besides all that everything is going well.
Nathan school work some samples of nathan for you
Mr worm, Nathan had to identify the sex, he could only find small worms, so he had to use the microscope to look at them. Then one worm crawled into the microscope, thankfully we were able to get him out.
Ginger is tired from a day of school work
Genevieve has completed her own composition, she struggled with it in the last few months and was having a hard time with the song. I thought maybe she was nervous about competing this year, as there is about 4 times the entrants, and she has heard 3 others and they were amazing. But as it turns out, the song she wrote always made her feel sad when she sang it, so she scrapped the ending last minute, changed it and she loves it again. She ended the song feeling more positive and that is what she wanted I guess. She finished the song the day before the score was due, I will include a copy for you.
Genevieve the last few weeks I could see was feeling an immense amount of pressure from all directions. Cheer, the team is relying on her getting her skills and performing them, she has cheerfest this weekend which is the venue that her old cheer team puts on. She will be seeing all of her friends and her old coach this weekend. Voice and Piano, her teacher talked with her and wanted her to be practicing more and putting in more time before the festivals. Genevieve was trying to figure out when she could posiibly get it all accomplished as she has school/cheer/choir/practices, and not enough time in the day. It did not help that I had outlined a pretty ambitious academic schedule for her as well, so she has pressures coming at her from every direction. I could see she was distressed trying to figure out when she could possibly add more practice time. So we have agreed to go lighter on academics for the next 6 weeks, concentrating on math/German. You could just see all of the pressure and stress leave her. Fo the past week she has been practicing piano and voice for at least 1 1/2 hours a day, and this is what is required of her, she is sounding so much more at ease with her pieces and I think part of it is she is more relaxed. We are going to have to keep on working at this with her trying to find her optimal times to get everything accomplished.
some pictures of cheer
practicing back tuck off of the tumble track, perfect form
always a smile, two long days in Seattle
Her new uniform, she is getting used to showing a midriff, and how "small" the uniforms are, she things maybe part of her skirt is missing
School, Genevieve is plugging away at everything, I think she will take a break from doing the Afghanistan unit until after lions festival.
Genevieve has been baking and cooking a lot the last little while. here are a few of her things
Genevieve is fulfilling cinnamon bun orders from her cheer friends
so yummy
Making blueberry filling for doughnuts
frying her doughnuts, they were soooo yummy
Nathan, he keeps on having some rough games at hockey, and that is pretty hard on his body. He has been having more frequent migraines it seems. He has been exhausted and finding it difficult to concentrate on school. He has been trying hard to get as much as he can done, but I think he has not been able to do as much science in the last few weeks. Hopefully he can complete the unit he is on by next week.
Game MVP for Nathan in Osoyoos!
Coaches said he does everything they ask of him, he listens so well to instructions, and reads the play
Nathan has been working on building a structure track for his RC car. He woke up not feeling well with a migraine one day but decided he needed to be doing something so he was determined to build something. he was really determined, so we let him have at er
Here is a copy of Genevieve's song she submitted to the adjudicator.
