Piano, Scouts and Soccer

Rocket had his last piano recital last weekend, expect that he did not actually play at the recital.  He lost his music, but we went to support his teacher and the other students.  I was hoping that he would be able to play a different song- like Start Wars from memory, but I think he was too overwhelmed by loosing his music.  He made the decision to stop lessons after this month, and in May he will start percussion lessons.  He wants to be in band during High School. For a short time, I was considering allowing him to march with the high school band as an 8th grader, but friends talked me down from that. Better to encourage him to learn good study skills in 8th grade so he is ready for 3 days of and practice, Friday night football games and then Saturday band competitions in 9th grade.  He still needs to work on keeping his grades high enough to march.

My scout.  He was elected assistant patrol leader for his patrol   he will serve for 6 months and then rotate to a new position if he wants/is elected.  This night was a "bridging".  I can not believe he has been a boy scout for 2 years now

Having a good time with one of his best friends.

Just talking together- it is all good mom. I love the friends he has made in scouts.

putting up the bridge

testing it out.

Just a picture up through the flowering trees.

the cub scouts getting organized

The boy scouts lining up for the ceremony

The cub scouts moving up.  

The boy scout oath

after the cubs scout who were moving up, climbed across the bridge, the boys headed out to camp for the weekend.  

Today was soccer game.  this is the 4th of the year and the first one with great weather.  Rocket is number 15 this year.

In the thick of things.

Yes, the other team was made up of boys and girls.  these 2 tangled a number of times and our player almost got a red card!!!!

This is one Rocket's friends from scouts.  

Rocket's team won 6 to 0 for this game.  For the season, they are 1-3 (1 loss, 3 wins).  

It is going to be a busy week for Rocket.  He is on the stage crew for the school musical and this is the last week of rehearsals before the performances this coming weekend.  He also has 2 soccer games this week, one on Wednesday and one on Saturday morning.  I expect a very tired boy.

In happy news, we are 1 month from vacation.  WOHOOOOO!!