Nicklas
February 2010
by Martin Family Admin on Jun.12, 2011, under All, Brenna, February 2010, Nicklas
- Brenna enjoyed her birthday on the 24th.
- Brenna spent another Tuesday morning at the library. The book of the day was “Curious George in the Big City” followed by a craft of making paper monkeys.
- Thursday 2/18 – Brenna spent a bit of a beautiful spring day playing at the Loudon Municipal Park. She took a real shine to the climbing wall. She would climb it to the top to get to the top platform and ride the “hugh-giant slide”…..
- With a dusting of snow on the ground – literally – the Loudon County Schools closed today, 2/16/10. Nicklas spent the day playing Guitar Hero clearing level after level on his way up through the game.
- Even though a Winter Storm Warning shortened the weekend, we all had a great Valentine’s Weekend in Cincinnati. The highlight of the weekend was our time at the Newport Aquarium at Newport on the Levee in Northern Kentucky. Nicklas got an up close look at several species of sharks and was even able to touch a shark! Brenna got up the nerve to touch a seastar and seemed to enjoy the entire experience…except the room with the gaboon viper, cottonmouth, and reticulated python. She couldn’t get out of that room fast enough!
- More Kudos to Nicklas! His Writers Fair paper earned him FIRST PLACE in the fourth grade division.
- Brenna spent another Tuesday, 2/9/10, at the library for the child reading program.
- All Nick would admit to about his dance Friday night, 2/5/10, was that it was ‘fun’……
- Brenna spent Groundhog Day at the Library. She participated in the child reading program where two different books – one about Groundhog Day and another about a rainy day – were read to the children. She also participated in the craft time by making a groundhog. She spent the rest of the day with Mimi celebrating a ‘Ladies Day Out’ by going to lunch, the bank – where they gave her two suckers, and finally the cleaners – where they gave her a third sucker!
- Kudos to Nicklas! He earned a fourth place finish with his 4H speech given in class on February 2nd!
- Nick’s first dance, originally scheduled for January 29th but cancelled by last week’s winter storm, has been rescheduled for Friday, February 5th.
January 2010
by Martin Family Admin on Jun.12, 2011, under All, Brenna, January 2010, Nicklas
- Nicklas and his friend Tyler were treated to see Pinocchio – a travelling youth company play – on Saturday the 30th. Afterwards, Tyler came to our house for dinner and to spend the night. A great time was had by all!
- 1/29/2010 – A winter storm is coming, complete with a Winter Storm Warning issued at 3:07 PM Thursday 1/28/2010, with as much as four inches of snow in the valley and eight inches up in the mountains. The storm is expected to start midday Friday the 29th. Loudon County closed school for the Friday the 29th at 9:30 pm Thursday night. Nick’s first dance, originally scheduled for the 29th, will be rescheduled.
- Nicklas will attend his first school dance on the 29th.
- Nicklas will join some of his friends for dinner at Chuck E. Cheese on the 22nd.
- Brenna attended her first hockey game January 16th. Knoxville lost to Pensacola 5-4. Watch for photos from the game to appear soon in the Photo Gallery.
- Brenna got her second Imagination Library book: “The House That Jack Built” on the 13th…and promptly had Mimi read it to her!
- Nicklas got his third six week report card just after returning from the holiday break. He is still doing quite well!
- Nicklas wants it to ‘be summer’ so he can ride his skateboard.
- Nicklas and his pack will be working the remainder of this year on advancement and preparing for the spring campout. The square knot and taut-line hitch are the first knots the pack is working on in preparation for this campout.
- Loudon got an inch of snow the first week of January. Loudon County closed the schools early one day and the entire next day. Brenna wanted to make a snowman out in the snow but without enough snow she settled to go outside and play in the snow with her brother.
December 2009
by Martin Family Admin on Jun.12, 2011, under All, Brenna, December 2009, Nicklas
- Nicklas went with his Cub Scout Pack to the local homeless shelter to assemble toiletry kits for the homeless and to tour the facility. The tour was to get them to understand and appreciate what they have as well as understanding there are those less fortunate who need help.
- Brenna had a blast making Christmas ornaments for some of the neighbors.
- Nicklas and his Cub Scout pack participated in the ‘Christmas in Olde Loudon’ parade. He carried the pack banner for most of the three mile route.
- Brenna enjoyed grabbing the candy tossed to the crowd from the ‘Christmas in Olde Loudon’ participants while watching the parade.
- Nicklas played the tone chimes with his class during the school holiday program just before the holidays.
- Nicklas and Brenna were taken to see <em>”Alvin and the Chipmunks – The Squeakqeul”</em> during the holidays – and they LOVED it!
- Brenna got her first book from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (Imagination Library is a program being implemented across the state of Tennessee that is open to all children under the age of 5 years and residing in a county that is part of the Imagination Library program. Imagination Library provides free books to children until their 5th birthday.). She got a nice hardcover copy of the
“Little Engine That Could”.
November 2009
by Martin Family Admin on Jun.12, 2011, under All, Nicklas, November 2009
- Nicklas got his second six week report card and his grades are coming up again!
- Nicklas went to the local animal shelter with Cub Scouts. Each boy chose a dog to walk while there. A great dane chose to take Nick for a walk – through the puddles and mud from the precipitation the night before!
October 2009
by Martin Family Admin on May.23, 2011, under All, Brenna, Nicklas, October 2009
- Nicklas took Brenna Trunk or Treating and Trick or Treating in the surrounding neighborhood with his Cub Scout Pack. Brenna ran out of gas long before Nicklas, but both got quite a haul!