Awesome A's

Today Drew got his report card for the second 9 weeks of school and the first semester. He got all A's for both!! We are so proud of him.

He works really hard each week on his homework and definitely deserved good grades. He was so excited. His ribbon says Principal's List. He got one for the first 9 weeks also. I am not quite sure how we will reward him for his hard work yet. We have a project we are working on for his birthday and may try to purchase that item early as a reward for the good grades, we will see.

JC got a special surprise today too! For Christmas Memaw had gotten him a big teddy bear, which he loved from the moment he opened it. I never expected him to get so excited about a stuffed animal but he just loved the thing. He laid on the floor with it and played with it the entire time we were opening presents at her house on Christmas Eve. Well the bear had a problem, hair loss! I mean excessive hair loss! There was bear fuzz all over Memaw's house that day and when we got the bear home it was not any better. So, of course, she wanted us to return the bear and try to get him another one. My sister-in-law actually found another bear that was similar at another store the week after Christmas. We have not seen them since then though to get it. She is a teacher at Drew's school also. So today when Drew's assistant teacher was walking him to the car I noticed she was toting a huge bear. After a few moments it dawned on me that this was THE bear! JC was very excited about it again! He did not really seem to miss the other bear but was very excited to see the new one. So I took several pictures of him with it tonight for Memaw to see!
Here is the new bear...

Here is JC with the orginal bear on Christmas Eve...

Neither of these pics are that great, but you can see how excited he was about that bear!

JC with the new bear...

THANK YOU MEMAW AND AUNT REBECCA FOR TAKING CARE OF THE BEAR SITUTATION!!

Here is a video of the boys from tonight. The are being a couple of typical, rough and rowdy boys!