Jasper School Pictures

Jasper's 7th grade pictures:

I'm biased, but I think he's handsome. And apparently all the girls in school think so too. According to Jasper they are pretty disappointed to find out he is only a 7th grader.

I'm super proud of him. He loves Middle School and is working hard. 

I love him lots.

School Starts and Other Stuff

Jasper started his first year of Middle School.

He was nervous, but so far he really likes it and is having fun.

That's because he hasn't had a lot of homework yet.

While he's gone, Jackson, Harper and I have been staying busy.

We play Star Wars Stratego,

and we adore one another.

And then we watch Jasper play in his first game of the season!

Go 73!!

Ra Ra Ra!

Jasper happenings

I finally got some of the baby stuff out, including this basinette. Jackson saw it and quickly ran and put a doll inside.

This is a doll that Jasper had when he was a baby. Jackson affectionately calls him "baby Jasper"

Jasper has had such a full summer and it is coming quickly to an end.

• Tomorrow he heads off to Scout camp for an entire week.
• The week after that Football practice starts, 5-6 days a week.
• Then 7th grade starts!

Just last week I took him to get his 7th grade immunizations and a physical exam for boy scouts.

Not surprisingly, he is in the 98th percentile for height (5'7" and 1/4"), and in the 92th percentile for weight (133 lbs). He is big. I have to brag about this because little Jackson is destined to be below the 30th percentile for his entire life.

Question: What is the point of giving birth to a 10 lb baby, if it doesn't pay off later on?

Answer : There is no point.

Here's hoping my little girl is not so chunky.

I'm super excited/nervous for Jasper to start Middle School. He's just growing up too fast.

Lately he won't let me take many pictures of him, so I have to post what I can get. He's gonna love me for these.

Back To School

Jasper started 6th grade this year.

6th GRADE!

Time is just going by way too fast.

He is growing so big - he is now taller than me. I'm only 5'4'', but just last month he was still shorter. And he is also wearing a size 11 mens shoe.

I think he's gonna be tall.

p.s. I think David did a good job school shopping for him.

This means he gets to do it next year as well!

ABCs

School is OUT! Summer is here!

One of my favorite parts about the end of the school year, is all the fun stuff Jasper brings home from school. Projects he has been working on, report cards, smooshed papers that were in the back of his desk informing his parents of a field trip that was last month.

Yesterday he brought home a fantastic hardbound book he made, entitled "History in Alphabetical Order" by Jasper Bennett.

Here are some of my favorite pages:

The quote bubble says "where's my body?"

"I dedicate this book to Jackson Parker Bennett"

"B is for Boycott - some people boycotted busses for Rosa Parks on December 1st 1955." The sign says "Let her go."

"Q is for Quakers - Quakers went to New Jersey to find a safe place because they were treated poorly." The guy is saying "I'm going to New Jersey!"

"C is for congress - congress is made of the senate and the house of representative." I like this one because I really think he captured the look of a congressman.

D.A.R.E.

Jasper is in 5th grade, and all the 5th graders in his school recently completed a program from D.A.R.E. (drug abuse resistance education). At the end of the program, all the kids pledged to resist drugs and violence. Each student also had to write an essay about what they learned.

Jasper's essay was one of 7 that was chosen as outstanding, and he won an award!

He got to read his essay at an assembly, and even earned a medal.

Way to go Jasper!!

The whole family got to go to the assembly and hear him read his essay. Jackson saw Jasper and screamed for him and clapped clapped clapped.

I sure love you Jasper and am so proud of you!

Student of the Month

So when Jasper got home from school today, he pulled this out of his backpack:

Yeah for Jasper! I love love love that he has been awarded for "showing qualities of humor."

Of course!

I found this note attatched to one of Jasper's homework assignments.

#15 Famous people usually have an escort with them because: "robberers will try to steel there gift cards."

Pretty funny, kid.

Oops

When Jasper and I get home from school and work, usually the first thing we do is homework. That is, I ask him what he needs to do, make sure he does it, and help him if he needs it. He is a smart boy, and is great at math. Today I decided to look through his backpack, and I found a flyer for school pictures. "Oh good, school pictures," I thought to myself, "I wonder when those are." I looked closer at the flyer and found that his picture day was actually April 7th, that is YESTERDAY.

Me: Um, Jasper?
Jasper: What?
Me: So, did you know that school pictures were Yesterday?"
Jasper: Yes.
Me: How come you didn't tell me?
Jasper: I didn't know.
Me: Well, did you get your picture taken then?
Jasper: Yes
Me: What were you wearing?
Jasper: That red shirt.
Me: Oh.

Well - lesson learned. Look through the backpack everyday! I had no idea. I hope that his pictures turn out okay.

New addition

Some of you may know already, but recently our nephew Jasper has started living with us. His mother is not well enough to care for him for the time being. He's been living with us for a little over week now and we are all adjusting to our new lives. With just the two of us, we'd begun to get pretty lazy and unstructured. I cooked at the very beginning of our marriage, but found that I never had the right ingredients to make dinner when needed so we ended up eating out a lot. Now we have a new reason to cook every night and have family home evenings and family scripture study. So my mom and sister Becky have both been helpful in compiling recipes for me that are easy and delicious, and I did a weeks worth of shopping last Monday night. My cooking isn't too shabby, I must say. Jasper is giving our life some more meaning and we love having him here. Last week we enrolled him in school and Sunday he got to go to his new primary class. He said "That is the smallest primary I've ever seen. Why did you guys move into a house with only old people living next to you?"


Right now David is giving him a haircut. Jasper said he wants it cut "military style" like his Uncle Mark's hairstyle. He also strongly noted "NOT SHAVED!" David said "okay" and gave me the look of "what in the heck is military style?" I warned Jasper, "what if David messes up?" (I should never have put that doubt into his mind, but this stuff is all new to me!) and he looked at me incredulously, "He can do it. David can do everything."

When David was almost done cutting, I said to Jasper "maybe you should just jump into the shower real quick to get all the hair off of you." He didn't seem too keen on that idea and said "OR, I could just dump water on all the hairy parts, and run around outside." Hmmm, which idea will we choose??