Kick IT!

Another busy week in the books. August is truly flying by. This week, I started two art lessons with two different students. Both just happen to be friends. I did a 2 hour lesson with Micah, a sorta shy, but very open artist. We drew a warmup sketch of a strawberry, and moved onto the Sorting Hat. Yeah, she's a major Harry Potter fan like Ella. She did a great job with both and was really proud of her work. It's just amazing to see pride in your art, so I was stoked to see that in Micah. Later, I met up with Ella and we did a very tricky Dobby sketch in pen with some color pencil for eyes. Her first mixed media piece. It was a difficult challenge but she nailed it. I believe we're doing Hagrid for the next sketch.

Later, Mia and I met up with Cecilia and her Dad for the NBAA soccer coaches meeting. We got our roster, equipment and team shirts, and info for the season. Mia and Cecilia will be sporting yellow kits this season. I was glad we got anything but pink since we had that last season. Our roster is very even. 4 2nd graders, 4 1st graders. Myself and Cecilia's Dad are looking forward to starting this week with the kids. Both girls immediately grabbed their shirts with preferred numbers and ran out kicking a ball around. Love the enthusiasm. They played a bit on the playground and we eventually had to say goodbye.

Friday night, Mia and Jill made a cute plushie fox. Not an easy thing to make but the end result is pretty cute. Saturday, Jill and I watched Chelsea beat the Gunners 3-2. Solid game but we let them back in. Gotta work on our defense. Later, we did some cleaning, met up with Mia's cousins Easton and Cam and aunt and uncle Ashley and Andy at the park. Warm day out, but the kids had fun. Mia did some tricky hula-hooping. I've never seen her do that well at hula hooping so it was pretty cute. We tried Mechi's frozen yogurt for the first time. Very tasty.

Later, we cut some grass, Mia played outside and we made some tacos. Today, they left early in the day to help uncle Tommy move into his new condo. I've been working on graphic design stuff before head off to work. This week I've got more art lessons, Mia's got Picture Day and we've got our first practice. That's all for now, thanks for reading!