Troy

Troy is excited to finish first grade. He has loved his teacher. She is our neighbor and I teach her daughter piano. He struggles with always following directions, but has tried hard this last week to be obedient. He has been very proud of himself. I'm grateful that he will keep trying. 

Troy had to have his two bottom teeth pulled. He wanted to take a picture. It looks a little creepy. His adult teeth had already broken through behind them. It was quite the ordeal. He acted really funny from the medicine for a few hours. Sweet guy. The tooth fairy gave him 5 dollars. I may end up regretting that, but I felt so bad for him. He got a mixel with it.

Troy does quite a few art projects at school. These are some of them. He absolutely loves art projects.

Troy and Liam both learned how to ride bikes. Thanks to my neighbor who helped me take off their pedals. I was convinced that's how they needed to learn because I had watched an REI video about it.  I had been trying to take them off for a couple of months. I got one off, but we could not get the other off. Come to find out, we were turning the wrong way. Win. Ken Torbit is so handy and has every tool imaginable. He got them off and in two days they figured it out. It took quite a bit of convincing for Troy to try it. But with the pedals off, he was willing to at least try that part.

The next big thing is swim team. It started yesterday. Troy had to stop half way through because he swallowed a bunch of water. BUT he is willing to try again today. I have learned that Troy has a hard time with things at first, but catches up an excels. I sure hope that this is the pattern again..