Since then, Justin finished his cross country season. He went to Sectionals as an alternate. As a 6th grader, he never ran a 6th grade race (a one mile course). He opted to run with the 7th and 8th graders at every meet (a two mile course). It was fun to cheer him and his team mates on. Justin improved greatly throughout the season. His time at his first meet was 22 minutes and his last was only about 15 and a half minutes! He is now looking forward to running track in the spring.
A couple weeks ago, Jason scored some free tickets to a Chicago Wolves game from work. Turns out that his company has their own private box at Allstate Arena. It's nothing fancy, but you can sit behind glass or out in the arena. There's also a private bathroom which was nice. There was a menu in there as well that we did NOT order from. You could order a $38 cheeseburger or a $95 appetizer tray. We chose to visit the concession stand for nachos and a pretzel.
Wolves games are pretty fun. They have pyrotechnics at the beginning and lots of fun music. Justin and Kyle really seemed to enjoy it and hope to go again!
As for Halloween this year, the costumes chosen were not my idea. My input was not welcome. Justin wanted to dress up, but wanted a mask so no one would recognize him. Kyle won't admit it, but he wanted to do the same thing Justin was doing. He's also very indecisive. Justin wound up going with the character from Scream (which he hasn't seen and wouldn't even watch if I offered to let him!). Kyle went with an unknown phantom. I guess the days of cute little pumpkins and clowns are over.
And before I go, I have some bragging to do... I met with Kyle's teacher today for the annual conference. He may be older, but the review was the same as the past couple years. She said that Kyle is wonderful and a cutie. His behavior is great and he's a good student. She also loves his red hair.
She also went over his report card. Kyle is in 3rd grade, but in the gifted program so he is doing 4th grade work. He received mostly E's, which means that he is exceeding the 4th grade standards of the district. How awesome is that?
