starting small

Ethan completed his first 25K trail race this weekend (March 2011) ! Yep, he completed the whole 15.5 miles. The family went out to Rocksprings, Texas with some friends of ours to camp for a night and run the trail race. I did the 25K with Ethan. William also completed his first 10K trail race (and did quite well). Here we are wearing our medals. To top the weekend off, Ethan had his first soccer game on Sunday - and even on tired legs, Ethan played an awesome game. The team won!!

This year (February 2011) Ethan participated in the Texas Destination Imagination Regional Competition. His team from Cox Elementary chose to design and build a sculpture made only of wood, glue, and aluminum foil. The structure could weigh no more than 27 grams and the goal was to see how much weight the structure could hold. The team built a structure that weighed 23 grams and held 270 pounds!!


The team also wrote a play about McDonalds vs. the State of California (played by Ethan). The story was about McDonalds only being allowed to put toys in Happy Meals that have 600 calories or less. Ethan sang the verse from the Rolling Stones song "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in the play. This is a song that his grandmother Sharon sometimes sings to Ethan when he does not get what he wants. The team did a great job and got 6th place out of 21 other teams!

Here is a picture of the team!

Here is Ethan at the structure weigh in discussing how the team made the structure with the judges.

23 grams!
The team went bowling between sessions!