Reflections WOW...

...And The Winners Are:  Rosie and Bud!

We love the Reflections Program in our family and were excited about the fun theme this year "WOW".  Bud and Rosie both created awesome 3-D art projects out of clay; Bud's was a dinosaur park with many dinosaurs, nests with eggs, trees, a volcano and a lake made of melted jolly ranchers.  He painted the ground green and spread crushed lava rocks over it.  Rosie made a "Wheel of Wow" with brightly colored fish, a circle of beads and a whole bottle of glitter. Both kids also entered the photography category.  They took pictures of Grammy's beautiful yard. Rosie took pictures of the fall leaves and bushes and Bud took pictures the day it snowed and snowed.  We turned those pictures into collages.  Bud and Rosie were so proud of themselves!

I am the Reflection's Chairperson this year for Oakwood.  It was a lot of work, but it was very rewarding to see how excited the children were at the assembly.  I showed a slideshow of everyone's project and played the music entries in the background.  The winners received a trophy and got their picture taken afterwards by a swarm of parent and grandparent photographers.  When Rosie's name was called for winning in 3-D art, she ran up to the front of the auditorium and hugged me, hugged her friend and then held up her trophy.  It was her "rock star" moment.  Bud won for both of his projects and proudly held both trophies for the picture.

I am going to take my "rock star" moment and thank Jono for helping the kids be so creative with their projects.  Thanks to Laura and Sara for judging the literature and babysitting Coleman.  And thanks to Mom for being such an example of service and volunteering.  She was the Reflections Chairperson at Woodstock when we were growing up. Mom, you will be here for the 2011 Reflections Assembly, WOW!