Levi- 12 Years Old

Levi -12 Years Old

Where to start? Levi right now. He is growing up way too fast! He started Junior High this year. It has been a bumpy ride with the COVID restrictions at school (no locker, half the number of kids there, masks at all times, cancelled events), but he has shown a huge amount of resiliency. Even when we went through a round of it at our house! He has handled the transitions better than I could have. He decided to do the Robotics team this year and to play percussion in the band. He has had his classes start with half the students going to school half the time, return to full classes, to be taken back a week later to be shut down for 2 weeks of online learning, to return back after. With the roller coaster of schedules he has shown how crazy responsible he is and has gotten perfect grades. He does not like to miss school at all, that sometimes it is a struggle to get him to relax a bit! He currently is loving his computer game design class, math, band, and Spanish. He just participated in his first Robotics tournament and their robot landed in the middle of the pack. They have some ideas for improvements since it was their first one and are excited to get back to it! His best friend is Oakley Bott. They have been friends since about 3rd grade. They spent their hybrid learning “home learning” days together and kept each other sane during those few months. They do robotics together as well. Right now with COVID numbers up so high, there has not been much friend time outside of school stuff. Levi spends his time either at soccer, piano, robotics, playing with his siblings, or reading. He loves, loves, loves to read. He spends more down time doing just that, that we have to force him out of his books sometimes! His piano has taken off this year and he is starting to play some pretty fun songs. He is constantly banging beats of the table, with his mouth, fingers, and anything he can find really. I think percussion was the right fit for that kid! His sibling love when he jumps in and plays with them. His relationship with Graham is just the cutest. This year we put Levi through another change and moved him over to a new soccer team. It was a hard decision since he loved those boys and coach he played with for the last 4 years. He transitioned well to his new team and luckily had a friend on his new Striker’s team and has been happy. Levi is such a sweet and smart kid. Like smarter than me smart. He was recommended by his teachers for accelerated math so we took him at the end of the year to get tested in and he scored 97% of all 6th graders in math in the state. He has a heart of gold and is always the one to step in when he sees that I need it. He is a hard worker and one I never worry about getting his stuff done. He gets up super early to make sure he is ready for school. He likes to be on time! In that way he is his mom’s son! He still loves to play his games. He currently likes playing Among Us on his Kindle with his friends and cousins. He loves to eat sweets, stay up late with mom and dad, and he loves to ride his lipstick. He makes mom pick out his clothes every morning for school because he has only had uniforms! He currently is the first counselor in his Deacon’s quorum president and loves to be working with his dad a little. He will still snuggle up and watch a show with me. He is stepping into a little bit of the moody teenager realm, so I am holding onto those moments as long as I can!