Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
While in Naples sitting on the beach, Samantha’s suuuuuper loose front tooth finally came out!! It was so loose it came out while she was drinking a smoothie! ha!
She was pretty happy!!
Later in the week, Maxwell also lost a tooth!
and Samantha lost another one on the bottom!!
What a trip – lots of fun and 3 teeth down!
At school the kids can apply to join the robotics team in 4th grade. Maxwell applied and got in but then the season got cancelled because of Covid. They came back this year stronger than ever though! He and Jack are on a team with two 6th graders, Thomas and Walker. They’ve been working so hard on their robot for weeks and finally had their first robotics competition last night. I had no idea what to expect but it was really cool!
Maxwell had fun seeing some friends too!
They had 4 matches where they put their robot on the field and try to move balls around to earn points. Getting a ball in the basket is big points as is getting your robot to hang. Team BLTC (bacon lettuce tomato and cheese!) got theirs to hang more than once!
I had to come and go to get Spencer and Samantha so missed it when Maxwell drove the robot with Thomas but they got 16 points when it was his turn so that’s great! After the 4 matches, BLTC was in 2nd place! Wow!
The top 8 teams went into the finals and it was intense with everyone watching but they WON!!! Thomas got their robot to hang and the other team on the field (that you compete WITH, not against) made a basket so that was huge! So proud of these boys and so were their teachers!
All of the teams from MBE…
Their big win earned them a bid to compete at the state competition in Auburn in February! Really cool! Guess we just got our President’s Day weekend plans set!
I’m so so proud of these boys!! Go Team BLTC!
Have a great weekend – we sure will! Both boys are playing in the Super Bowl! That’s right, not only does Maxwell win robotics competitions, but he wins at football too! Woohoo!
On Wednesday of last week Samantha’s loose tooth finally came out!! Thankfully I didn’t have to pull it either! ha! She let the school nurse pull it and couldn’t wait to show me when she got home!!
That tongue went straight in the hole. No gold tooth for her! 😉
That night she finally got to use the tooth fairy pillow that had belonged to me but now has her name on it too thanks to GJ! So so cute!!
The tooth fairy brought $5. She clearly gave Samantha the “first tooth special” just like she did for Spencer and Maxwell. Can’t beat it!!
Like the boys each year, Samantha did a summer reading challenge. The summer before 1st grade they all read 100 books! Maxwell read 100 books and Spencer read 100 books! The boys also had a summer reading challenge and could earn Vbucks for every book they read. They did ok…not our best summer of reading but that’s ok.
Samantha was a little slow to get started but then picked up speed at the end of summer. A big thanks to GJ for getting her going and finding some books online to read!
I’m so proud of this girl. First grade has been an adjustment. I just hope she knows how special and wonderful and brave she is! And very very smart!! 100 books! Her prize? LOLs of course! Two OMG dolls and two LOL dolls to be specific. She earned them!
Go Samantha go!
First day of school was Tuesday!! My crew was ready for a new year in 5th grade…
3rd grade…
and 1st grade!!
Love my crew…
They are wearing masks this year but will get to interact with their entire grade at recess, etc. Parents are even allowed in the school this year! Woohoo! Hopefully everyone will stay safe and healthy and we’ll have the best school year yet.
Everyone came home happy after the first day and gave it a thumbs up…
Let’s try that again!
There we go! Thumbs up all around! Here’s to a fantastic school year ahead!