August was awesome! Hank had a blast at his fiddle camp and did a great job at the end of camp performance. He thought it was really cool to get to play at The Salt Lick (and he also made it a portal for our team in Ingress while we were there). Grandad and GG came to visit that weekend to catch Hank’s show. Grandpa, Grandma, Aunt Laura, and his cousins, Alyssa and Christopher came to the show as well (and of course his parents!). Everyone had a great time and Hank enjoyed spending special time with his cousins, grandparents and Aunt Laura.
When GG and Grandad were visiting, we took a day trip to New Braunfels where we had a blast at the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch. Its basically a drive through zoo and we saw all sorts of awesome creatures and got to feed zebras and llamas from our car (we purchased food for them at the zoo – they weren’t eating our snacks). Hank loved seeing all the animals. We rounded out the afternoon with a stop at the local children’s museum and a delicious dinner before heading home. It was lots of fun! We also visted Bass Pro Shop while they were in town and Hank had a great time hacking all the Ingress portals there (there were several and we walked all over the store trying to locate them all).
We tried to be rather low-key where we could in August, preparing for the new school year by getting new supplies and clothes and visting the pool and splash pad as often as we could. Hank enjoyed time with his friends, visits with family and the occasional screen time. Tyler went to the Alamo with his friend, Alan, who was visiting from Taiwan. The Alamo was very high on Alan’s list of places to visit in Texas and they had a great time there.
At the end of the month, Hank began First Grade. His teacher’s name is Mrs. Brewer and she is very nice. Hank was excited to have some of his classmates from Kindergarten in his First grade class, including one of his first friends from Kindergarten, a girl named Sidney. It was a super fun month! Here are some photos in no particular order.
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