Justin

I wanted to post about Justin as he has grown so much this last year-even this last six months. Here are some of his activities...

Justin enjoying the hammock...wait a minute-THERE'S A GIRL IN THERE! This is Rachel Ellico, Justin's friend. We are good friends with their family. Jason, her dad is posted about below.


Trevor took the boys on a father's sons outing. Here he is being a good helper.


Here I am teaching Justin Piano. His teacher asked me one day, "what are you doing with this kid? Do you realize that in just a few months he has accomplished what most kids do in 2 years. He is very gifted. Does he practice an hour a day?" I said, (shocked of course) "He practices 15 or 20 minutes a day." She said, "another year with him and I would have to recommend him elsewhere." He is a joy to teach. He just gets it. He is very bright and quick to learn. Only downfall is he tends to be lazy about his ability. Always looking for the quick way out. If only he could combine dedication with his wit
Exploring in the abundant forests. He loves playing war in the battle fields of his mind. He and his brothers find sticks that look like guns and go to imagine. Nice on the pocketbook.

Here he is with a crawfish. Trevor and him have caught full traps of these in the nearby lakes, brought them home and had a crawfish feast. Some of them ended up as pets where the boys in a Tupperware box built a home for them with rocks and plants and fed them for a few days. (this I insisted be left out on the porch) a few days later I went with Justin to release them back into the lake while reminding him not to play with or name his food.

Justin at scouts (his dad is his leader) went to the fire station. He is sitting in the truck and thoroughly enjoying it. He loves scouts! It's one of the highlights of his life. He is not a bear yet, but 40% done with the Bear book. He is just doing well with so many things.

Okay, my son is a fisherman...He is the kind that movies are made out of. No kidding. He can outfish, outwait any fisherman that I have met. He patiently waits longer than his dad...could do it all day. He can catch a fish when no one else can. When he does catch its always the biggest fish. Justin nearly set a record with a catfish caught on a weak line. Seriously Jason our Highway patrol friend took Justin and his nephew fishing one evening which turned out to be 6 hours. Justin caught this fish and patiently reeled it in. Jason said, "I can't believe the line didn't break. I kept expecting this young boy to not know what he was doing, work too quickly and snap the line. So I just patiently watched him to see what he would do. It's like he had an innate sense of what he should do to reel him in. Amazing." So Jason was so impressed by the size of this fish he quickly went to have it tagged and weighed the next day. It was a few ounces off from being a record here. But he said that Justin is quickly becoming a legend for the young boy that caught a near 15 pound catfish on microfilament line-that didn't snap. Jason proudly took these pictures from his phone and showed the ward on Sunday. We later had a fish fry with their family. And because there was so much meat left over (uncooked) we took it camping as a family and cooked in in the charcoals of the fire.



Here's Jason who had his wife take a picture of him with the Fish in his kitchen. He is so good to build people up. Very positive. They have been such good friends to us. We appreciate their example and friendship during our time here in Williams.