Adam is 12

This boy:

 is now 12!  It is a little unbelievable to me.  He has really been growing up a lot in the last few months.  Not just in height, he still feels shorter than most of the kids around him, but he is 59" tall, so he is getting taller, but also in personality.  He is a self-starter, he comes home from school and gets his homework done on his own.  He is still doing piano and trumpet, and that takes up a good amount of his time everyday.  Recently, we had to decide what classes he should take next year at junior high. There were a lot of classes that he wanted to take, but there are only two spots for electives in your schedule.  He was sure that he should still take trumpet next year because the band teacher said everyone should do it for at least one year in junior high.  We were discussing it because I didn't know that he would still want to do it.  He was very conflicted, but during our discussion he mentioned that there were other classes that he liked more than band.  "Really, what other classes do you like more than band," I asked.  "oh, like math," he responded.  Joe and I took that as a sign that he should no longer be in band if math was more interesting to him than band.

 The past few months he has really been into planes.  He started with a Cessna book, and has been spending a lot of time reading about flying planes and about jets.  He is sure he wants to take private flying lessons now.  The last book we caught him reading was a technical book about how to fly a plane.  He also has been interested in economics and stocks.  He recently got Joe to set up a stock account for him so that he could learn how to invest in stocks.

 He still takes tennis lessons.  He likes them really well.  He seems to be getting better and better.  In the junior high, they have tennis at school as a sport, so his plan is to be able to play for the school next year.

 Michael and Ellie decided to photobomb his blowing out the candles picture...what are gonna do?

Now that he is 12, he gets to go to Young Men's activities and be with the deacons.  We are super excited about this because there are a lot of deacons (contrasted with the one other boy in his 11 year old scout group).  Plus then when I go to joint activities, he can go with me!

We are sure glad that we have Adam in our family.