Monday, February 11, 2008

Spokane bound!

Today was the school speech meet for the 1st graders at Liberty Christian School. A large group of parents and grandparents had gathered in the school library to witness the event.

The G-man was the 13th kid to give his speech, which gave him time to get comfortable. He said that his knees were shaking while he was giving the speech for the judges. By my guess there were probably 40 people in the room watching the speeches.

His speech was excellent, quoting Matthew 5:43-48 and giving a short explanation of what the verse means to him. After his speech he sat down to listen to the rest of the 1st graders giving their speeches.

Micah is doing his first math homework in this picture. We used some skittles to help illustrate simple addition. After finishing the math problems he colored in the squares based on the different answers.

It looks like this summer will be the "summer of math and reading" in the Long household. Both
Gavin and Micah will be doing lots of studying in
the summer to stay sharp. This is all part of Russ' master plan to minimize his future tax burden and grocery expenses at the same time.


I took this picture of Brady and Ethan this afternoon out of picture guilt since they weren't in the blog yet. Of note is Brady being the #1 "picker upper" in sunday school this week, and Ethan saying "Matthew" when he saw his friend in the nursery.


More sections of building siding are falling off at work and landing all over the place. Watch out for flying projectiles big enough to flatten a car! The good news is...this is Eastern Washington so the wind will stop sometime after WSU has a top 50 recruiting class in football. Ha!







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