End of January

The kindergarten kids dressed up like 100 year old men/women for the 100th day of school. Rett borrowed my blue light filtering glasses and wore his church clothes to school. While I was putting them on him he said, "Why do old people wear church clothes?". I didn't know the answer, so I told him just because! He also let me put flour in his hair to turn it gray. Such a cute old man!

In the afternoon they had rotations around the different classrooms with different 100 theme activities. This was counting how many 100's of licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop:

More karate:

James started playing basketball on his school's team. This is the first year that they have been able to have school sports, so it is really exciting for the kids who play. They always get to wear their jerseys on game day (instead of their uniform) and they have so much fun playing each other. James's age group has 4 teams, so they rotate playing each other each week.

My mom got a video of him making his first goal:

This is right after he made that basket!!

A few of the kids are 4th graders and are really good, so they really have to work hard when they play against them.

I made posters for his first game so he could watch us cheer him on. Every time he would look over at us, we would wave the posters at him. We are that family in the bleachers :)

Rett had a great accomplishment this month: he learned how to ride a bike with no training wheels!! So proud of that boy!

My mom took the boys to their first Christmas/Grandma activity: a trip to build a bear! They loved picking out their animal and then selecting what sound to put in them. There were a lot of options. Rett chose Chewbacca and put the Chewbacca sound inside of him.

The kids get to step on the pedal to fill their animal with stuffing:

James chose Pikachu and got to fill him up on the other side of the stuffing machine:

Then it was time for the heart ceremony. Before they put the heart inside their animal, they repeat a little poem and put the heart all over themselves and give it a kiss. So adorable!

Rett took it very seriously:

James is wearing his shirt backwards because his class discovered it was the official "backwards" day while reading an article online and they all turned their clothes backwards at school.

Strapping their new buddies in for the ride home. Grandmas are the best!