Life is good. Noah is making progress in school. He's kept up with his cello and is making good progress (I hate to say it out loud, but it's much to our surprise). He looks so funny jumping around trying to get in his soccer uniform and not be late to his lesson before running straight off to soccer. He loves loves loves soccer. He's very good and was picked to play in a match next week against a British school. He's gotten the highest score of the class on all 3 of his Chinese tests--go figure! He's still wearing shorts, but is agreeing to wear shoes/socks, and a hooded sweatshirt at least.
Ava, with her friend Gaby (from Minneapolis), have lots of fun together. Ava is getting better at being less "teacher-like" (read: bossy) during school and is on fire with all her subjects. She's working hard at violin and loves having all her stuffed animals back in her life. She has a new pet fish (a gift from a birthday party) to fuss over and is making new friends every day.
Cameron's Chinese teacher said she's never seen a student his age with such excellent written Chinese skills so early. His teacher reports at conferences were excellent. He's hitting new independent milestones--like taking himself over with a friend to get a haircut yesterday--that do make me glad he's tied to us still via phone. He did a GULU walk to raise money for orphans in Uganda and a 5k run to raise money for education projects in China. He is very committed to his church youth group and wouldn't go to family breakfast with us on Saturday because he wanted to go to Bible study. We are so pleased and proud of his growth in his faith and his interest in learning more. We are blessed with such a great staff at our church that works with teens.
Cameron was at a youth retreat last weekend with several other churches and had a great time. The video is here from YouTube. The guy in the suit with the yellowish wig at 0:34 seconds is our youth group leader and you can catch a glimpse of Cameron at about 1:34 and 1:45 if you look quick quick.
2 comments:
I'm so glad you posted about the kids! It's great to have this update. I think I saw Cameron in the video!
It's so great to hear about the kids....where does the time go. Ava has lost that little girl look andis starting to look so much more grown up. What aboutyou and MArk????
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