Paige has been doing well with her sight words at school and has been learning how to sound out words and read. This past week she brought home a Bug book she put together.
I took a video of her reading it, we were so proud of how well she is doing in school.
After Connor's party, we let him open the gifts his friends brought for him. On the day of his birthday, he opened the gifts that Mommy, Daddy and Paige got for him.
Paige got him a cute little dinosaur ball and we got him a couple stuffed football guys as well as a new Nerf gun.
After Connor's soccer practice on his birthday, we stopped by Grandma and Grandpa's house so he could open the present he got them. He liked the custom card they made for him and the gift.
On Saturday night, February 28th, Connor and Paige went to our neighbor Harry's house for his birthday party. Andrea and I had a date night, so our babysitter Jessie took them over. Before we left, I had to snap a picture of them together since Andrea put them in some cute outfits.
On Saturday, February 28th, Connor and I went to Danny's 9th birthday party celebration at Latitude 30. The kids did a bunch of bowling, ate pizza, and then played for a while in the arcade. They were supposed to go to the community soccer field to play football afterwards, however it was cold and raining so they went back to Clara's to watch a movie.
Connor was thrilled to "win" a stuffed animal (a bowling pin with eyes) with his tickets.
On Saturday, February 28th, Connor had his last basketball game with his team the Owls. His last game was a difficult one, against a good team and his shooting was a little off, but he still scored a few times and played very well.
He had a wonderful team, good coaches, and a fun season with the Owls.
On Friday, February 27th, we celebrated Connor's upcoming 8th birthday with a Nerf Party!
Andrea, as usual, did a lot of work to get together some cute decorations and a neat cake for the party.
Andrea ordered Connor's cake from our cake lady Kelly. This was the 5th cake she's done for us, and it was very well done. Everything on it was made by hand, even the darts. The kids loved eating the darts almost more than the cake.
Grandma and Grandpa, thankfully were back in town from visiting our new baby cousin Max, so they were able to make it to the party. They were a big help throughout the day, it turned out to be a bit more work and coordination than I'd expected.
After our pics in the house, Grandpa and I went to the park and set up the shooting obstacle course. I'd been planning it out for a while and it turned out to be a pretty challenging course. The kids had to go through boxes, shoot through a narrow window, balance over obstacles, drive the jeep and go under things. All the while, they had to take shots from various positions and try to be fast and accurate.
Connor ended up with the fastest time, by 10 seconds! After the boys were done, Paige went through, however she wasn't quite strong enough to load the gun. She just pretended to take shots.
Mostly, Paige just liked chasing around the boys and being silly.
Mostly, the boys just enjoyed running around and blasting each other. We did one other planned event, where the kids took farther and farther shots on an IPSC sized target. Danny ended up winning that competition on his very last shot from about 25 yards.
I'd planned one other competition where the boys would shoot cups off a table, to challenge their accuracy, however it was very windy and I knew it wouldn't work. We were actually running out of daylight, so we staged a couple group pics and then packed up.
After we got the boys back to the house, we ate some pizza and then cut the cake.
Everyone sang "Happy Birthday" to Connor and he blew out his candles.
It was a fun party for the kids, and we were happy that the weather cooperated and the boys enjoyed themselves.
