This video is Sennet and JT tossing the ball around on a unseasonably warm January day. JT is in 3rd grade and he was pretty impressed when I told him Sennet was in kindergarten. I am not sure how Sennet is so naturally good at pretty much any athletic thing he tries. I have no real desire for him to play football but it is hard to deny how good he is….
Sennet had his fourth and final ski lesson for the season last Saturday. He’s been loving it, but we’ve been a bit annoyed that he’s had a different instructor every week. Next year we’ll stay with The Summit at Snoqualmie for our resort, but go with a different outfit for his lessons.
That being said, he has learned a lot and loves to ski. He rides the chairlift now and skis down the ‘green’ Little Thunder run with no problem. After his last lesson I met up with him and said we could ski as long as he wanted and then get hot chocolate. It was super warm out (almost 60°!) and the whole mountain was melting – but he didn’t mind.
We ended up skiing for the next two hours before he was ready to rest. We got hot chocolate and a bagel, and then headed home. With lessons over for this season, we’ll just go up on our own from now on and ski when we want to… Last week I tried to get some video of him skiing, but by the time I pulled my phone out, he had shot down the mountain. I was a bit more prepared this week:
Sennet had his second ski lesson of this season today. When we got to the staging area, we discovered they had moved him up from red to yellow (a bit more advanced). I left him with the instructor and went to get some coffee.
After about an hour I wandered back to check on them. I couldn’t find any sign of them at the magic carpet. I looked around for a bit and walked over to the chairlift, thinking maybe they had decided to take them on the lifts. Suddenly Sennet zoomed past me yelling, “Hi Dad!” and got back in the chairlift line with his small class. I was pretty surprised. I knew he was doing well, but didn’t think he was ready for the lifts. They did several more runs down the “green” Little Thunder run.
He was pretty jazzed.
As was I!
why is this picture so blurry?~ Sennet
I did not crop his photos and only applied the same one button edit that I applied to my images.
Let me show you a few examples of focusing. What is focusing?~Sennet
After a quick discussion about blurry versus in focus and how to use the back button to focus the lens.. off Sennet went in search of items to photograph. I set up the camera for exposure (more or less) and off he went. I grabbed my other camera and grabbed the opposing view. He was in complete awe of how he was able to focus on anything he wanted. Yes, I am totally beaming right now.
Sennets photo
After a few attempts at not getting the “outside to focus” I showed him how to focus on a light like on the towers or a building and then he had a moment of pure magic.
I talked to him about moving the cat into a spot of light so that he could focus on him easier. And yes I know we need to put away the Halloween stuff!
shooting against backlight is a conversation for another day.I’m atill figuring that one out!
I showed him a bit about exposure and how that can change the photo and his mind was blown. And I loved it.
exclaimed Sennet after I let him help me paint the guest room. I was really proud of him too and he worked really hard and painted all of the areas that he could reach. I am really proud of myself for letting him help and working out the learning curve of not dripping paint everywhere! Win Win.
