Profile of Alton

Alton loves astronomy. Here he is with his birthday telescope. We haven't gotten to look at stars yet because it's been raining so much!

Alton is 9 now. It seems hard to believe. He's a very creative kid who loves to create. His current (and long time) aspiration is to be a comic strip writer. He's had his own comic strip titled, "Dingo" for about two years now. He writes new ones faithfully.

He's not really into sports although he has been tolerating soccer this year. He loves to play defense. We think this is because it's a pretty laid back position judging from the good time he seems to be having with the other two defensive players when the ball is at the other end of the field. We're also "forcing" him to be in a track meet in a couple of weeks.

Alton has quite the sense of humor. Yes, some of his jokes and comic strips just aren't funny, but he seems to be getting more and more laughs out of us. This does not include the prank he pulled on me this week where he said he heard a rumor there was a roly-poly crawling on my neck and he needed to check. I was in the kitchen fixing breakfast and only half paying attention to his roly-poly "check" until I felt something actually crawling on my neck. Amazingly, the roly-poly survived my reaction.

His favorite school subject is drama. No, I am not his teacher for that. He gets that at homeschool co-op. We think he likes it because he can be just as silly as he wants. I was a service parent today and observed him in class. Had I been in range, I would've gotten onto him for being so silly, but his teacher seemed to think he was just as funny as he thought he was.

He has me wondering just who he's going to be when he grows up. He certainly won't be dull.