Last week Dylan mowed grass for the first time ever! He'll be 11 in June. Last year we taught Austin how to mow grass, so this year it was Dylan's turn. Austin is excited because this year we are going to let him ask the neighbors if they'd like their grass mowed. Austin has plans to be a millionaire by the age of 30, so he's excited to have a job at the age of 12. I'll get back to you on how the new enterprise turns out this summer. Dylan will have to spend a year in training cutting only the Roberts yard for now. Once he proves he's worthy, we'll send him out to the neighbors next year. We hate for Austin to monopolize all the business.
Dylan had to choose a science fair project this year. James has finally convinced Dylan to give baseball a try, so Dylan decided to incorporate his new found love of baseball into science. Dylan's project question was, "Does a baseball go farther when hit by a wood or metal bat?" He won Third place in the science fair! This was definitely a family project. James & Dylan went out to test the hypothesis that a metal bat would hit a ball farther. After he complied all his data, I helped him create table & graphs. Austin helped create the word art. It looked really good. Dylan did a great job putting everything together. He would have a made a 100%, if he would have listened to me about the controls. Oh well, he still made an A & had fun doing it as well!
April 9th was James' 34th birthday! Don't let him try to tell you he's 26! I was so excited to have birthday cake from a bakery again. We hadn't had a bakery cake since we lived in Nashville. I had to drive through the pouring rain & almost got lost to go get it, but it was well worth it. I can't wait for Dylan's birthday in June. I can already taste it - yum! James spent the day watching some of his most favorite movie (which just happened to be on cable that day) & playing online poker. We topped off the evening by visiting James' favorite restaurant, Bandanna's. The boys & I were so glad James got to be home with us this year for his birthday. It's just not the same when he's gone.
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