The Medalists

Today Isabelle came home from school with the "Olympic Reading Medal" for knowing all of the sight words that she needs to know for the first grade.  This was supposed to take some work and practice, but she is such a great little reader that she passed off all of the packets as soon as she got them.  She was pretty excited - go Isabelle!!

Later, Kami called home all out of breath and excited because she got first place in her cross country race!  Wouldn't you know it - the race that I couldn't make it to.  I guess this time they had the girls and the boys teams run together which was helpful to her, because she usually runs with the boys in practice and was therefore able to tell what pace to keep up.  She is anxious to hear her time because they didn't know what it was, but she heard a father telling his daughter that the girl that won came in in ten minutes. (In Junior high here they run just under two miles at their meets.)  She definitely gave it everything, because she felt good and sick after the race.  At the end one of the spectators told her to run faster: "they're gaining on you! Don't let them catch you!"  Kami was very worried and started running even faster, thinking "I'm not getting beat now!!"  Then she kept hearing footsteps right behind her, and she glanced down just as she saw a long and very hairy leg enter her line of vision.  Then she mentally relaxed thinking, "Phew!  I'm still the first girl!!"  It all sounds very exciting.  I wish that I had been there!:(  Our air conditioning just went out on our car and it didn't sound like a good idea to drive all my kids for two hours to watch the meet only to turn around and drive home again after having gotten out of the car for fifteen minutes.  I would have had a mutinous crew, I'm afraid.  But yay!  We're proud of our Kami!!