Wonderful Waveney

The Science Fair is over, ...thank goodness! Waveney's 3rd grade class had to do a science project for the science fair. However 3rd graders don't go on to District or State Science fair. Which is fine by me. We tested the "stickiness" of different band aid brands. It was a fun, and relatively easy project. Since the class doesn't go on to the next level, each student voted on their favorite project. Waveney won the most favorite in the class. The judges gave her a 95% on her project, and she earned an "honorable mention" for her project. Only a small handful of kids in her class earned that recognition. I'm proud of Waveney and happy about the positive response as everyone knows that I also earned those responses! :)

On Saturday Waveney and I drove to Indianapolis for a swim meet. We talked about how we thought she'd drop 5 seconds or more on each of her strokes at the meet. I told her she'd get a reward if she could drop 5 or more. She dropped 14 seconds of 100m breast stroke, 6 seconds off 50m back, 4 seconds off 50m free, +2 seconds on 100 Fly. She and I were a little disappointed at the add on, but she was tired. When we averaged the seconds dropped (and added), she averaged more than 5 seconds per stroke. So she got her reward, a blizzard from DQ! I'm proud of how hard she works at swimming and how much she loves it!