Sunday, May 4, 2014

Track Stars, Smarty Pants, & Weekend Fun!!!

The Dowdy Clan has been BUSY these past few days ~ but they have been so much fun!!!
Thursday ~ 2nd and 3rd grade had their annual track meet. They have been practicing for weeks and the kids were really excited!!! I was thankful I only had to take ONE day off of work since both kids had meets on the same day! ;) Mary Dalton's class is in orange (3rd grade) ~ Jackson's class is in yellow and blue (2nd grade)
Jackson's class only has FOUR boys and his best buddy Ty is not coming back next year ~ VERY small class!!! Only 12 in his group!
Mary Dalton's class has 20, but only 5 girls!
She and Marti Ann were working on their tans instead of running!
Both kids did the long jump and ran in several relays ~ Let's just say that they did NOT inherit my love for running....
Jackson finished this jump and then started crying ~
The boy doesn't cry. Ever.
He said he twisted his ankle but after a LOT of questioning ~ someone from the other school made fun of him. It broke his heart. And I wanted to break that bratty kid's legs...and his mama's for not teaching him better than being a TOTAL jerk ~ but I didn't ~ I just told him to suck it up and that we were not ALL good at everything ~ it was supposed to be fun and to do his best....
He STILL did not perk up ~ in fact ~ he went to SLEEP on his towel at one point. I thought he was trying to avoid the mean kid ~ I made him get up ~ and finish.  When we got home I made him take a nap and I laid down with him ~ he was BURNING up with a fever ~ almost 103! We went straight to the Dr. Poor thing had an ear infection & sinus infection!!! I felt SO SO SO bad but he NEVER said he felt bad!!! He got a Rx and is well on the road to recovery!!!
Mary Dalton enjoyed playing with Olivia WAY more than running track!
Thursday night Mary Dalton did her solo at the beauty pageant at our school ~ her sweet friend Whitney Sue went with us!
Friday was Honor's Day at our school ~ Jackson was fever free and was able to go!
Mary Dalton RACKED up and we are SO proud of her!!!
She won the most AR points in her class AND for the whole school ~ 248! She also got Distinguished Headmaster's (all A's in all subjects all year) ~ Headmaster's (at least a 90 ave all year in all subjects combined) ~ highest average in Math and highest average in social studies for third grade!
Jackson is VERY VERY intelligent ~ however he did not participate in AR very much year ~ he would rather socialize...he got a ribbon for his points....he was pretty ticked that MDD was getting all the glory and has vowed to beat her next year...should be interesting...
Big Daddy and Sooz came to Honor's Day, too!
After school ~ we went to the cabin and Mary Dalton practiced her shooting skills  with her new gun...
Rhett and his girls were passing through and stopped for the night ~ they had the BEST time meteal detecting!!! They played until after 10 p.m.
saturday ~ we went fishing!!!
We caught the perfect amount for a good old fashion fish fry!!!
It was DELICIOUS!!!
We were so late finsihing up we decided to stay at teh cabin ~ With the intention of getting up and coming home to get dressed for church...
Dalton walked in from hunting at 9 and all 3 of us were still OUT!!!
WE NEVER SLEEP IN!!! I guess we were just worn out!!!
We didn't make it to church, but went to Augusta to run errands and to have brunch at Bonefish ~
And....
Mary Dalton got her ears pierced again as part of her reward for her awesome grades!!!
She was SO excited!!!
It has been a jam packed 4 days, but we have had a great time and are looking forward to more fun this week!!! We have Jackson's spelling bee and his class trip coming up this week...AND ~ our DISNEY CRUISE VACATION is almost here, too!!!!

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