Smart and good-natured. Those are the kind of compliments that would really delight parents and I am one of those delighted parents. Those compliments came from my 11-year-old son’s teachers from 3rd grade up to now, 6th grade. So I am not being biased if I say that I have a smart son and a good kid at that, right? I surely am one proud mom, but enough about that. I just want to brag a li’l bit about my bundle of joy who has been such a busy li’l bee since he entered the intermediate school. More so now that he is in 6th grade. Aside from the projects here and there, he has also been playing soccer and has joined the school concert band. He has also been recently invited to join the Beta Club which only select students are invited to enter and we are so happy about it.
But despite all those things, he still has time to have his R&R. How he spends it is by playing his favorite online and app games. He deserves some slack time for being an excellent student and a good boy, right? And he still has time to read too which the husband encourages.
Yogi, as we fondly call him, has a fascination with mythology and mythical creatures. He actually said a few times that how he wishes he was a demigod. (Cute!) He’s gotten mythological books as gifts and he will still have more to add to his collection soon. We love giving him books as gifts.
His latest obsession has been the Percy Jackson & the Olympians – a pentalogy of adventure and fiction books written by Rick Riordan. He has read all the five books and keeps on rereading them. We’ve seen the two films, the first installment, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lighting Thief and the second installment, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters on DVD which the husband got him for Christmas last year. We are anxiously awaiting for the third installment which I guess will come out in 2016. I hope it will because there’s not much talk about it yet. Or maybe it is too early to release info about the film. The little one thought it will be released next year so he was kind of sad when I told him that it wouldn’t be until 2016 for the movie to be released.
I’ve read online that the films received negative reviews. Nonetheless, they were both box office hits and I have to say, we enjoyed the films. For me, they were very entertaining, and I think that is the most important thing. You go to the movies to be entertained.
He brought these books (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian), the third and fifth part of the series respectively from the school library and he’s had them for weeks. He actually plans of renewing them again so he can reread them. That’s how he is so into it. I do wonder if he will ever get tired of reading the books over and over again? (“,)
