It’s already school time again! Wow! The summer just flew by. Flew. Like with real wings. Nevertheless, we’ve got great things to report: We LOVE our classes at Denver Options. We are taking everything from Writing and Graphic Novels to Quilting to PE to Geography. So fantastic. Plus, we get to see our school friends again and hang out with them. We’ve even made some new friends, since each year there are new faces in our crowd. Asher’s First Grade class is mostly returning friends from last year, but the class is small and his best friend is there, so it’s perfect. Overall, returning to school’s been Two Thumbs Up!
In addition to our Denver Options classes, Tessa started a weekly drawing class where she’s learning a ton (she’s already started to use shading in her own drawings) and Emmett is taking a weekly musical theater class that culminates in a performance of Aladdin, the Musical. He can be heard regularly practicing singing songs at home, most recently ‘You Ain’t Never had a Friend Like Me.’ Yay, Emmett! We can’t wait to see you perform!
When Tessa and Emmett are in class, Riley, Asher and Mom head to the Botanic Gardens and explore. The first time there, Asher pretended he was Smolder Bravestone from Jumanji, tromping through the jungle and fighting bad guys. So cute! After that, we spent more time in both the Children’s garden and in the far back of the York Street gardens, by the Cheeseman Gate. All the flowers are blooming so spectacularly and the weather’s not too hot. It’s gorgeous!
We’ve also hit up Wings Over the Rockies and the Museum of Nature and Science recently, for Apollo-palloza. We loved seeing everything space as well as seeing how hard everyone worked to put a person on the moon. It made us think that it is okay to fail because sometimes out of failure comes real, lasting success. On top of that, we’ve been to the Children’s Museum, where we did the new ropes course; we checked out the sculptures at the Chatfield Botanic Gardens; and we even did a tour of a local handmade candy factory. Check out all the pics Mom’s posted.
Jammed in between all of those museum trips and school, we went camping again. This time we went to an old mining town down South, St. Elmo, and we saw that there are still people who live in those buildings. It was both creepy and interesting. Plus, the hotel has an entire colony of chipmunks populating its front step! It rained off and on that entire camping trip, but when the stars did finally come out, they were so bright and clear, and there were so many of them that Riley called them a blanket covering the night sky.
Finally, we’ve been steadily moving through the Avengers cannon, culminating with Endgame just this past weekend. (There were mixed reviews for the penultimate Avengers movie in this crowd, mostly because we Pigs prefer to see our heroes all surviving the war.) But overall, we love family movie nights, and we love seeing our favorite heroes triumphing over evil. We love dancing to the fantastic Marvel music while the end credits roll, too. We’ve loved these movies so much, most of us are planning on being one Avenger or another for Halloween. (Tessa called dibs on Captain Marvel, which was a close thing since both she and Emmett got the Captain Marvel pajamas.)
Anyway you cut it, we are doing great. Riley’s back to doing everything–even live JiuJitsu, Asher’s becoming a reading whiz, Emmett’s doing what he’s always been destined to do–perform in musical theater, and Tessa’s digging into her artwork. Yay, Pigs!
Check back next month when we regale you with tales of Riley’s Birthday, all of the fall festivals we go to, and Halloween!
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