The Latest On Lillie

Career Day

In March the kid's elementary school had a career day. Samuel was sick. He had a fireman suit which he wore the next day. I could swear that we got a picture of him in it but I can't find it anywhere. Here's Lillie though:

 She decided to be a veterinarian. I did my best to turn a white t-shirt into a lab coat.

 Lillie's Art Shows

This Spring Lillie was invited to be in 2 different art shows. One was called "Los Leones Art Festival". The selected children could put a price on their art work and try to earn money. Lillie selected not to sell the original but to sell prints for $5 a copy. She came out with $18 (there was a 10% fee to the host of the art show) and was pretty excited to realize that her art could earn money. Here she is next to her piece entitled "This is Life"

 Two weekends ago (in May) Lillie was invited to the Northside ISD art show. Her piece which was a rattlesnake head won a teacher award. These were the only awards given. Out of the hundreds of pieces in the show including everything from elementary grades through High School only about 30 awards were handed out. We are very proud of our budding artist! Here she is below with her art teacher Mr. Rodriguez.

 And here is her rattlesnake:

 I think she chose to draw a rattlesnake because she has been doing a research paper on desert life lately. 

City Wide Bike Rodeo

In February Lillie placed 1st in her school's bike rodeo so she was invited to the City Wide Bike Rodeo. We went downtown this past Saturday (5/26) and she competed with kids from all over the city. They had the participants stagger their arrival throughout the day which was very nice. We walked in, registered her, she went right through the course and we were done! 

 She was not nervous at all and rode through the course like a champ. 

 Here she is getting her participants ribbon. We don't know yet if she placed. They did the awards at the end and you could come back to hear them but we went to a water park with friends instead. If she happened to win then her school will let us know. 

You did a great job Lil'Star!