February in Photographs

 While it's probably not entirely fair to Emerson to have held him back a year on piano so he could be in the class with Sera, they could not be more adorable practicing together!

Funny Emerson.  Whatever he may lack in skill, he certainly makes up for in enthusiasm!

And general bounciness

 

But honestly, he's happiest chatting up his friends on the bench anyway.  Especially when they have electronic gadgets for him to ogle over.  One of Emerson's major life goals is to be friends with pretty much everyone he meets.  He is doing well!

 Then there's Theo.  He has learned so much this season.  He's awesome at defense, and even though he almost always passes rather than shooting during games, when he practices he sinks almost everything.

 His hard-running team.  To his left is one of his best friends from school (Ryan) who he has so enjoyed being on a team with.

Free throws are about the only chances I get to for pictures of Theo shooting. 

 Mid-game shoe tie?  Alright then.

 Honestly, I never thought I could adore a team of coaches as much as I do. This bunch has been so encouraging, motivating, and has taught these guys so much about sportsmanship, doing their best, and working as a team. We love 'em!

 Then there was the Learning Fair at school.  It had a talent show component.  I couldn't convince even one of my kids to try out.  Instead they all displayed artwork.  Addy didn't get around to hers until the night before, but she still did a beautiful job with some watercolors inspired from some of my photographs from Italy last summer.

Theo started on his a whole two days before that, and came up with a pretty interesting assortment of pictures, including an exploding Coke bottle, Jay-Z, Nikki Minaj, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, some pencil sketches, and a DS that he apparently covets. 

Emerson started working on his almost as soon as the Learning Fair was announced.  He created a burning school being attacked by an outerspace monster, and defended by everyone from Buzz Lightyear to Harry Potter, along with their various transportation parked outside (awesome ships. ambulance, etc.) . . . all from Legos!  Then, in transporting the glorious engineering feat to school, it got jostled in the van and a bunch of stuff fell off.  We did our best to put it back together properly, but he was never satisfied that we had succeeded.  The fact that every single person who entered the school during the fair paused and marveled at it soothed him somewhat.

Nice work Mitchell Kids!