Friends All Around

 Man, these boys have a lot of fun friends!  Which is exactly what I have prayed for, so it fills my heart with happiness.

This is Ryder and Jake, two of Ellis' best friends from school.  I think these are the two friends whose hair Ellis was trying to emulate.  

And Ellis' Recess League soccer team.  This is the group that he was "The Ref" for this year for so many games, spent countless nights making yellow/red cards, lineups, and game plans for, etc.  Ellis also planned play dates with almost every kid in this group.  He is lucky to have such a fun group of friends at school!

Here are Henry and Ellis with a few of their Cub Scout/church friends.   

 And Sam with his preschool friends on the last day.

 This is Henry's soccer team and his amazing coach who had such a great mix of yelling and giving sincere, positive feedback.  At first I wasn't excited about the yelling, but I actually think the boys really responded to it. I don't really understand boys, but I think yelling motivates them somehow?  :)  He gave Henry the "most improved" and "hardest worker" awards, because Henry really got in there and worked this year!

 Good game, good game!

 Ellis' soccer team buddies.  Orange CRUSH!!!  Missing in this pic is Harry, the kid who scored like a million goals.  These guys had a great season and pretty much dominated every team they played.  Ellis really got into it and developed a few versions of his signature victory dance for any of his goals.

And I had to add this picture of Henry and the friends he made during the week at Apps & Coding camp.  I never heard anything about these kids during the week, but on the last day, they were all super friendly with Henry.  They were all saying they can't wait to see him again and hang out other times and in other classes (which I doubt will happen, but you never know!).  I think they had all bonded over their computer-geekiness. :)