Fitness Olympics for P.E.

Saturday was the "Fitness Olympics" for P.E. Remember when you had to do push ups ,sit ups, & run in school to pass (or try to) some Presidential fitness tests. Our kids have to do that too with our P.E. group. Usually the Coach tries to get all the testing done throughout the month during class time but this year held it all in one day for all his homeschool groups from all over the Valley. They each got a certificate & Hannah even earned a National patch. She tried so hard & she's still sore today.

Joshua might have better luck next year. He was fine with the shuttle run & running a quarter mile. He refused to do sit ups & push ups (at first). After he finally decided to do push ups he did 5-just one away from "National" in his age group. You have to meet all National standards in each event to get the patch though. He was a few seconds off in the quarter mile too. Despite the bad attitude with the "ups" he said he had fun. We had lunch there & they each got a snow cone before medals were handed out. They didn't get any medals but they both had more fun doing the events as the "Olympic" event rather than just doing them during P.E. I like that they have more time for sports during P.E. by getting that stuff done in one day.

Our Science Fair with HEoS is tomorrow so I hope to have pictures up of that later this week. We chose butterflies as that is one of Hannah's favorite animals-or insects-you know what I mean!
I tried to time the order of our caterpillars so they'd be butterflies by Monday & we could let them go for everyone to see. Unfortunately the company I get them from does not fill orders properly & temporarily lost my order for a week. They "found" it after I informed them they charged my credit card so they did indeed get my fax. We have them in their cocoons to show tomorrow. Not the great plan I had but it'll have to do.

Hannah starts theater Tuesday night. We are so thankful for that scholarship!

Joshua played floor hockey last week. He's on Hannah's team & he was a great team player. Their team lost but they both did great. I suspect their team mates don't have hockey in their blood like ours do. Hannah takes losing worse than Joshua but they both had fun. She somehow feels the loss is her fault. Coach Rob said Joshua could play a couple games to see if he did well before we paid. Guess we gotta pay now:)