Health Kick

Spencer has been health conscious lately.  He recently went to the gym and ran on the treadmill.    The next morning as I was preparing his lunch for school, he asked if he could have salad in place of his usual sandwich.  He proceeded to make himself a spinach salad with parmesan cheese, almonds and turkey (no dressing).  He has since taken a spinach salad for lunch on several occasions.  Last week he wanted to make an all fruit smoothie.  He could barely contain himself when Jon got home with the frozen strawberries.  Our current blender did the job, but is not good at breaking up the ice cubes.  He has requested a blender for Christmas.

Not to detract from the health choices Spencer is currently making, but by way of providing background on his dietary history, he has always had a big sweet tooth.  Spencer would love to have dessert every night.  Also, not more than 6 weeks ago I found seven lemon drops under his pillow while I was changing his sheets.  He said he was storing them for later (and, no, he is not a squirrel).  We had a brief chat about the hygiene of storing unwrapped candy in our beds.

Returning to the present,  I like that Spencer is aware of what he is eating and that he takes pride in making healthy choices.  And as a further update, this morning Spencer prepared a smoothie with banana, strawberries and raw spinach.  No juice, yogurt or sugar.  It tasted pretty good.  He then made himself a spinach salad for lunch and advised me that he was not going to eat any sugar today despite the fact that a classmate would be bringing cupcakes to school to celebrate his birthday today.  He asked me to abstain from added sugar today as well.  I am.

My Future Job

I get extremely weary of every day picking up the various belongings of everyone in the house (with the exception of Luka, who never leaves her things lying about) and putting them where they belong.  However, yesterday, when engaged in this tiresome occupation, I came across the following school assignment of Michael's, which brightened my day:

MY FUTURE JOB

By:  Michael

I want to by a Physicist.

I want to go to Harvard University.

Some classes I'm going to take are:

Computing
High Mathematics
Core Mechanics

Some things I am going to do to build my resume are:

Take Mathematics classes
Take Physics classes
Keep taking extra-curricular classes/activities such as piano

Halloween

Spencer as a clown (yikes!)

Michael as a math geek.  His t-shirt is full of math equations. 

Apple Orchard

 Our annual trip to the Apple Orchard with the cousins.  This is after apple picking at the petting zoo.

First Day of School

 Michael and Spencer waiting for the bus on the first day of school, September 2013.  Spencer is is 5th grade.  Michael is is 7th grade.