Christmas!

Need I say more? All they didn't get was snow!!!

Ethan shines bright in December!

December has been quite a month for Ethan. At the science fair, not only did he get first place at his school, he also got first place at the District fair. Next up is Regionals in Arlington the end of February. After that I belive it may be Nationals in DC!! Though, in regionals he will be competing against middle schoolers so it is unlikely that he will go further but wow- it is SO cool that he gets to go to the Regional. He is very excited about it!This is the group of 6th graders that got first place in their divisions for science fair! They were honored at Joshua ISD school board.








Besides science, he has been busy performing this month. All the 6th grade band students in the district got together for a performance- there were 220 kids there! It was really a great performance- I was so proud of him, and all of them really!








Besides band, Ethan is also doing choir again this year. Tristan is with him this year so he has a buddy there! Ethan is a wonderful singer, he truly is. Now he just needs to work on facial expressions and smiling while singing. He and Tristan looked like they were up there because they were forced at gunpoint or something!

Jim's birthday rainbow

As we walked outside to take Ethan to his science fair award ceremony we noticed a rainbow that went right over our house! how cool!

pictures!

Sloane all ready for dance class!Here are the boys at the fall festival at their school- riding the bull!

Sloane and Alli at the Pumpkin Patch

Sloanes artworkThis is what happens to naughty children

Corndog monster

Ethan's science fair project

Ethan did his science project on fingerprints this year: which surface is the best to collect fingerprints from?

Sloane's Christmas program

Yes, there was primping this year, and she LOVED it!!!

Sloane did pretty good singing her songs. She definately is more of a performer than either of the boys were at that age!

teeth

Both the boys wiggling their loose teeth!

more pictures of Cameron's crazy shark teeth!

Finally got all 4 of those front ones out- in 1 month's time!

Mom had to pull out the 'shark' tooth because it wasn't loose anymore because the new one had fully come up behind it and tightened it up.

Sloane's Thanksgiving Feast

Last year we made teepees, so to be fair, this year was pilgrim hats- that way nobody feels left out ;)

random cameron picture

Yes, he still loves hats, boots, and bags!

school projects

Cameron had a turkey project for school- they had to be disguised so that the turkey hunters wouldn't catch them, so he disguised his turkey and wrote a story, he did a pretty good job!!!:

Ethan had to create a 'junk instrument' out of things just laying around. Jim helped out and they made a flute out of pvc pipe!
His music teacher said it was the best sound she has heard come from a pipe flute...it could be that Ethan just knows HOW to play a flute, either way- he did a great job!

halloween

The boys had fun carving pumpkins at school again this year. Jim went and helped them both!

This year, we had grim reaper, darth vader, and princess.