Meet Season, Solo Ensemble, Science Fair

The fun continues and we stay busy.  Weston of course has his big extra thing, gymnastics, and it is gym season so its time consuming, but he's only in 5th grade and the demands are minimal. How will we do this when he is in Jr high/High school? I don't know.
3 meets down, 3 to go. Weston did a fabulous job on his last gym meet in Springville. He was tired by the end so he had a hard time with the vault, we saw him do a beautiful warm up vault, but when the judges were judging he fell backwards on his landing. He was so disappointed, but since he scored so high on his other events he still managed to take 1st place out of 18 boys in his division. That cheered him up.  We just love to watch him do what he loves, every meet is a great meet in our eyes!
Check it out.
Floor 11.5
Pommel 10.8
Rings 9.7
Vault 8.8
P Bars 10.7
High Bar 11.2
Overall 62.7
http://youtu.be/_Qr0q0-l1bc

Savanna is practicing furiously on the violin on "The Entertainer" for her solo and ensemble coming up. The teacher gave them barely two weeks notice and she managed to find a quartet and a song to put together a practice session with her group in record time.  She had me schedule an emergency private lesson with her old violin teacher and loved it so much she wants private lessons again. She also wants voice lessons so we might have to wait til schools out. She spends much of her homework hours on math, trying to keep the grade up, and she still has a good attitude about her tutor.

Fiora is still plugging away trying to train her two mice to get through a maze by reinforcing their behavior. The results will probably be very interesting. The only reinforcement the mice seem to care about is finding a way to escape. But she is diligent about doing it every day. We may have to sell the mice after its done because they are very smelly, much more than the gerbil. Science fair projects, what we do for these kids. Fiora's birthday is coming up and she has excitedly planned a "backwards party."  I'll let you know details on that next post!

Jared is still plugging away at school learning out to expand his business. He took me to a social event where I learned more about the program and applicants, this is a picture of him socializing there. He's not a fan of homework but he has been very diligent about coming up with a proposal to expand. He still squeezes time in the morning to work out and stay toned.

I'm still maintaining my goal of 20 hours a week of therapy research and work. I have a marriage workshop coming up next week that gives me something to plan for.  Hope it's fun for those who sign up! I'm having fun putting it together. Theme is "how to stay positive in your marriage", something for which I certainly need lots of information, inspiration, and interaction.