Slowly but surely I can feel spring is near. Major League Baseball recently had the pitcher and catcher report to Spring training, the last snow fall has all but melted but for the few piles in the parking lots of the neighboring business and Zoe has her first school break of the New Year!
Zoe is really beginning to blossom at school. She is very active learning her alphabet, recognizing a large number of letters. She has many friends and is active in a few activities. She is excelling in gymnastics, loves going to dance class and goes to weekly swim lessons. The pictures of her are her gymnastics picture taken with her team. She is inquisitive, apparently is very social which we are made aware of daily when she receives a green, yellow or red. Typically we can expect two days of green, two days of yellow and unfortunately at least one red on a weekly basis. She tells us her goal is 5 days of green….she has the ability but not sure if she has the will. But it is a great goal.
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| Zoe's Gymnastics Class |
Zoe has been preparing for Valentine’s Day. She has all of her valentines written out and ready to go. She also has her valentine’s box ready for the Valentines from all her friends. Zoe and her mom worked on the box over the last few days. It is awfully cute.
I think Zoe is as excited as we are about Nathaniel’s wrestling season coming to an end. It is a grueling sport for friends and family who watch. Imagine what it is like for a 5 year old girl. She does pretty well, but being trapped in the stands when she wants to run around has to be tough for her. At least during baseball season, it’s warm and she is outside where she can run and play with others children.
Nathaniel had a fantastic season as a sophomore. He has a very strong record of wins with the JV team with 12 pins and a really high winning percentage and was asked to wrestle with the varsity towards the end of the season. His varsity record finished at 5 wins and 5 losses. Three of his losses were against the numbers 2, 5 & 6 rated wrestlers in the state. Taking two matches to a decision. He went 4-1 at the varsity conference meet and 1-2 at districts. I know his grandfather would have been very proud of his achievements. His coach said “I was very pleased with how Nate ended this season. I was incredibly happy to see him win a match at districts and I told him after his last match that I am finally starting to see him wrestling to his potential.” But most of all, I think Nathaniel is excited he can eat again. His Mom brought him and his lunchtime wrestling teammates 6 boxes of pizza, they devoured every piece like a pack of wolves. It was a celebrated end to dieting until next year. I call it more like starving than dieting!
So Nathaniel is now focused completely on baseball. Not that he isn’t the rest of the year as he practices year round. He will play JV ball in the spring and he has been invited to play with the varsity American baseball team this summer. I think they were really pleased with his pitching last year while playing JV baseball in the summer.
Well it is still winter and Nebraska is not out of the woods for snow into the month of April. However, this is been the warmest January and beginning of February on record. So my hopes are for a shortened winter. We are all read to be outside. All is well here and we wish you and your loved ones a very Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!
