The boy’s school was having a fund raiser this week and unlike most of the school day activities, I was able to go! :)
The fundraiser is aimed at funding all of the PTA events the school does during the year (there are a lot!) in addition to providing equipment to the classrooms and specials. It’s also tied to starting the school year off healthy and is very much focused on the running part of the bolt!
Thomas’ grade was running first and I juuuuust missed the start of it. Thomas saw me towards the end of the first lap, but he wasn’t going to stop running just because I was there. So I had to wait until he was worn out to get pictures of him. I didn’t keep track, but he guessed he did 7 laps on the track. (Which is way more than I could currently do!)
He did briefly stop to get a selfie with his cheering section though. :)
After his class went inside, we had a few minutes to wait before Henry’s grade came out. Natalie took advantage of the emptiness to stretch her legs on the track! I took advantage of the time to move to a shadier spot - it was a hot morning!
Henry was excited to see us as well! He’s all smiles and ready to run!
I guess I haven’t seen Henry run since he started school and I was pretty surprised by his hustle! While I assumed he was just going to do the minimum of one loop, he didn’t even slow down when he ran by
Look at him go! I tracked him for a little while, but he stopped to grab some water and I lost track of him for a bit.
Quite a while passed and no Henry. Natalie was finally looking at me like “Mom, I don’t think Henry is coming back…?”
I had to admit she might be right, so we went off to look for him.
He totally abandoned us! His cheering squad was forgotten as soon as he saw some of his friends playing with all of the games scattered in the middle of the track. Soooooo rude!
We finally managed to steal him back for a photo as they were calling the kids to line back up and go inside. Besides the heat, it was a fun morning and even Natalie seemed happy to be chilling with her bros. And the PTA raised a ton of money. They should be able to fund everything they wanted and have extra left over! Go Colts! :)