Mark May Happenings

I know I already wrote about our busy May happenings as a family, but Mark has been particularly busy. He is continuing his tradition of being involved in multiple sports, and soccer is one of his favorites. This was his first time participating in our town's rec team. It was a coed team (7-8 year olds) with different levels of abilities. Mark has really high expectations of himself so I know he would do better in a more demanding team...but we can't commit to a serious soccer team AND do tennis at the same time. His dream is someday to be on an undefeated team:)



Mark also had his piano recital in May. His teacher, Miss Wendy is very kind and supportive of him. He does 45 minute lessons once a week and has been kind of on and off with piano practice, but he is still trying. I can see a tremendous potential in him, as a pianist, but as we all know, nothing will happen unless we put work into it.



Although he doesn't really look like it on this picture, Mark was very happy that Babushka was there to watch him perform:)



Lastly, Mark was finishing up his SECOND grade. He was switching schools again after his school year, so he mixed feelings about the last few weeks at Green Hope Elementary. He was very excited though because he received a very high score on his SSA (Single Subject Acceleration) test and that meant he could join 4th grade for their math instruction when he goes to 3rd grade. It was a very big deal for him as he didn't feel challenged at all the whole year in math particularly.

And here is Mark dressed up as a fairy-tale character. Any guesses who he is?

Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk;) Yeah...Our pinto beans had to become Magic beans for that.

And that's how we ended our school year with Mark. Thank goodness, no more carpooling! Yay!

Lyana.