Benjamin has been a very dedicated transformer fan ever since he discovered their TV show, Rescue Bots, several months ago!  He splits his Duplo blocks into colors and builds Heat Wave and Chase and Boulder and Bumblebee.  Lately he's been having me print out pictures of the transformers from the internet for him to color.  He gets one a day and then he hangs it on the wall in his room!  He is quite the enraptured fan!

So I was very surprised when he watched a Digimon show for the first time this week and suddenly switched loyalties!  This is how he dresses up as a digimon . . . I'm not sure what the tutu is supposed to represent but I'm understanding the red jacket and goggles--and the serious expression which so obviously says we can trust him to save the world!

He is still asking me for transformer pages to print out, so maybe he will continue to save the world both ways!

Bethany likes school and her friends.  She is working on piano in the mornings and is coming along nicely.  She still loves her jazz class.  She is a sweet, happy girl!

Cali and Chey started "Gym Rats" this week which is early-morning basketball practice twice a week.  They are excited to be playing basketball more often.  I continue to send them down to their room regularly to clean it up.  Sometimes they do and sometimes it is worse afterward!  Why is that?  They still love their rabbits and head to their pen first thing after school.

Mariah started Gym Rats, too, this week and had two practices with her Bantam team in addition to cross country practice everyday!  She ran in a home meet on Friday and came in third!  She is doing great!  Her math teacher invited her to transfer to his honors math class.  Since he invited her friend in her math class, too, Mariah decided to do it!  So, she has a new schedule this week with some things she likes better and some things she misses, but we think it will be a good change!

Megan had her first full week with no tennis!  :(  She missed it very much.  She still had homework to keep her busy and a couple of study groups.  Her church class last week had a lesson on seeing the people around us though God's eyes.  Her teacher gave them each a pair of plastic eyeglass frames to remind them of the principle.  Meg has had great fun wearing them around this week.  She took several selfies...

Sarah performed a piano piece in church last week.  She had been spending a lot of time working on it and she was so glad when it was over!  It was "Come Thou Fount of Many Blessings" and it was lovely!  This week in addition to work and homework, she did still have tennis practice.  The Varsity
Regional Tournament was on Thursday and Friday of this week.  The weather was lovely and the matches were here at SHS, so they were great days to be a tennis parent!  Sarah and Allyson won both their matches on Thursday and didn't lose until their last match which was on Friday.  That puts them in second place in our region and sends them to the state finals next week!  It is very exciting!

Savannah came home to watch General Conference with us this weekend.  It is so strange to not have her around!  When she comes back, I feel like saying like Captain Literally, "Balance RESTORED!"  It is a happy thing.