A winner :)

It has been quiet on this blog for a while. Once again I am amazed at how fast time passes by...  I missed writing our journey down and am glad that life is at a little slower pace now.  We have had a busy season, which was also fun. A lot of things happened and I will try to put them all in one blog post, which will hopefully not be too long :)
So, grab your latte or tea or other beverage of choice, kick back and relax - it's the weekend :D

We started off with a Karate Tournament. Jeremy just started Karate in January and this was his first tournament. I told him that maybe he shouldn't expect too much, because he didn't have much time to learn and train. Though it was great to get to know the process and see what's going on, so that he would be better prepared for the next time. I thought it would be good to get him ready - just in case he didn't win anything, which in my mind was clear that it wouldn't happen because he just started with this. Well, my 'little' son proved me all wrong. He didn't just get trophy, he brought two home! One was for participation in the gold belt basics. The other was for first place in team form! Yeah! He and his partner did really good - especially since both of them are pretty new to Karate. This was awesome for the boys and Jeremy was on a high all day long. Of course the high energy one could easily feel at tournament had something to do with that as well.

One happy boy :)

On the heels of the tournament followed the yearly Pinewood Derby Race with the Cub Scouts. The past four years Jeremy tried really hard to win the race but never did. He wasn't sure that would want to enter this year, but wanted to give it another try. Well, good that he did, because his car came in first place! He was just ecstatic !  Now he and the other boys who won go on to race at the next level. Even if he doesn't win there, that is okay, he had a blast so far :)

my little guy with his winning car 'Sharp Cheddar"

After all of this excitement, we still had to finish the project for the geography bee at our co-op. Jeremy chose to make a display board about Berlin - Germany. That was a bit difficult to fit in, because it didn't have much to do with our school. Since we are studying about the ancient civilizations, we didn't quite fit it. Though we did learn that Germany existed already during ancient Roman times, though it was called Germania. So I guess it did fit into our history - somewhat at least ;-)

So it was a very eventful and successful few weeks for us, especially for Jeremy. It was a great time, but I was glad to have some normalcy back :)