The Thunderchickens' biggest fan

Look who came to my game today!

5 Thunderchickens in Mrs. Kasper's class?

That's a lot of crazy in one place.

 

A B-lated dinner

Remember how I had my friend's slumber party

on my birthday

so we had to push my celebration off?

Well, wait no more!

I chose Carrabba's--

I was in the mood for Italian

and none of us could remember what it was like!

It didn't disappoint--

we tried a bit of everything.

And guess what?

Mema, Pappo, Ken and Marcia

happened to be there too!

(Small world!)

 

But wait!

There was dessert too!

After the singing,

you need a BIG breath...

...to make a BIG wish!

Spreading out my celebration over 3 separate days?

I may have to plan it this way next year!

What's a Draft Party?

My friend Cade had an extra ticket

to the Chiefs' Draft Party today.

I had no idea what to expect

but it involves football and the Chiefs,

so I'm in!

Turns out,

it's a chance to try all the agility training

the Chiefs do in their training

I gave everything my best!

Did I mention the free food?

Lots of free food too.

It was awesome!

I might have to bring the family next year...

The Final Fieldtrip

It's hard to believe, 

but my last field trip has arrived.

Oddly enough, 

the last field trip I went on 3 years ago (2019)

was also with Mom and also to the zoo.

This time,

we had a project to complete.

I'm in the Zebra group

and we are in charge of designing the perfect habitat

for this group.

But...

it did not start out as an awesome day at the zoo.

It was raining.

So we made a quick pit stop

indoors to see the stingrays on our way to Africa.

Then we braved the rain in our ponchos

and made the trek back to the zebras.

My group, hard at work.

Our worksheet took us all of 5 minutes

and then it was on to the animals.

The animals were not that impressed with us.

It was that kind of day.

But the rain stayed away

and so did the crowds

so we made the rounds pretty quickly

to catch a lot of animals.

Each of us got to choose an animal to stop and see

I chose my beloved red panda

The highlight of the whole trip though

was the last thing we did.

Have you ever fed the lorikeets?

I HIGHLY recommend it!

Just a little nectar in a cup

and they were all over us!

It was so cool.

A great way to go out in style.

Another 6th grade milestone in the books.

A REAL First Taste of Band

We usually start band in 5th grade, 

but, well, COVID,

so this was my first go-round.

I chose percussion,

playing both pad (in preparation for snare drum)

and xylophone.

There hasn't been a lot of practicing

in my freetime--

until this week when I got rather serious.

I have my first concert--

my first Cavalcade!

Mom and Dad (and Mema) have fond memories

of Tijuana Taxi and Honeyrock Flapjacks.

Good news (I think)--

we play different songs now.  

I played xylophone on Midnight Mission

and really nailed it

I played pad on Starsplitter Fanfare

and Bringer of War--

and by all accounts,

nailed that too!

My whole fan club turned out

for my debut performance!

The drumline performed

along with all the middle school and high school bands.

They were pretty awesome.

I may have to stick this out a while longer.

A slightly belated B-day

We were supposed to celebrate

on my actual birthday

but my friend had a slumber party

that I HAD to be at!

So we pushed birthday dessert to tonight.

There was still plenty of singing

And plenty of cheesecake!

Mom says

happy birthday

to the boy who taught us babies and kids

could be easy...to this day!

Birthday Blowout!

Mom thought it would be "easier" 

to combine our parties again this year.

So that means 9 of our closest friends

(5 of mine, 4 of Tuck's)

came over for a Sky Zone slumber party!

After playing a rough game of 500

and racing scooters up and down the road,

we started with a snack necklace craft,

stringing Fruit Loops, Funyon's, pretzels

and anything else with a hole

on a string so we had something to munch on.

Now that we are full of sugar and junk,

let's go jump!

(good thing we have several cars

that fit 8 people--

it was a rowdy drive to Sky Zone!)

Did we mention it was Glow Jump?

That made it even crazier!

We did all the things--

basketball,

foam pit,

climbing wall,

dodge ball,

Ninja Warrior...

The funny part was,

we weren't even the craziest people there!

Sky Zone is apparently

the place to be for teenagers on Saturday nights.

THEY were the crazy ones!

But we all stuck together 

and had a good time

We had some pizza

and paused for some pictures--

Tuck's besties

My crew

All the crazies together

And then,

because Sky Zone was pretty disorganized this trip,

we "snuck" back into the gym

and jumped for another hour!

Eventually, 

it was time to head home.

We had to drive through a wicked storm.

It was kind of fun to get wet

but we were a bit freaked out by the lightning

on the drive home.

Mom and Dad quickly distracted everyone

with the promise of homemade ice cream sandwiches

complete with singing

We had presents

and then,

at around 11:30,

Mom and Dad had us climb into our sleeping bags,

my crew in the basement

and Tuck's in the living room.

There was a lot of laughing

and goofing around

despite a lot of pleas from Mom and Dad.

They gave up at 1:30.

No one is really sure how late we were up.

But we were up bright and early

for eggs and donuts!

One crazy, fun night.

And not nearly as bad as 

Mom and Dad worried it might be.

A random stroke of luck

Coach Eric asked us if we would like to play 

at Arrowhead this weekend.

Um, YEAH!

Then we found out it would cost $28 per spectator...

so only Mom came along.

It started as a bit of a mess--

things were really disorganized,

we weren't sure where to go,

and then there was a lightning delay.

So we toured the stadium

and had a team meeting

and finally,

we were back on!

I was PSYCHED to be on this field!

We played a heck of a game.

We are a TOTALLY different team

from our first season a few years ago.

In fact--we're undefeated.

Doesn't stop us from being good sports.

Even though it was a sort of random game

(we were on a quarter of the field,

our ref only knew tackle so he was unsure of the rules,

there was no score board and the timer was on a cell phone...),

it was AWESOME to play at Arrowhead

All the moms snuck down for a few pictures too

Soaking it all up!

 

Jack's First Dance!!!

A major milestone today

(according to Mom and Dad)--

my first dance.

As a member of STUCO, I helped plan it.

But I still had my doubts about attending.

Mom and Dad insisted.

Pretty sure they were more excited than I was.

I got cleaned up and went all the same.

The ONE picture from the night--

me and my friend Matthew

running through the parking lot to get to the door

(the line took us 15 minutes to get this far!).

Well, they were right.

I had a good time and I'm glad I went.

That's about all I have to say about that.

 

A quick little Art Show

I think we're all just excited

to have school functions again.

Tonight was my Art Show--

here is my first piece

(it's a husky)

Here are my other 2 pieces

In and out in 10 minutes.

Glad to be able to show things off again--

even if it did take us longer to get there than it did to see it!