Star of the week.....

Growing up in the Bryen household we had various types of bribes awards given to encourage us with different things. One of these prestigious awards was STAR OF THE WEEK.

I don't personally remember receiving it :), but I DO remember the excitement and hype over WHO it would be awarded to (and I remember thinking desperately 'oh please let it be me' :)!!

So last week we introduced star of the week in the Aston household......

To start off this new tradition we opened with an honorary FHE for the winner of this exciting and prestigious new award.

and the award goes to.............

none other than Chad Rylan (this is how he often likes to refer to himself)!!!!

There are so many things we love about this boy and it was so good having him stand in front of us all while we talked about why he had won this special award and what we all loved about him.....seriously......he was beaming!!! (and therefore, so were chad and I).

So here are just a few of the reasons (other than being such a great kid) why Rylan was the first recipient of the star of the week......

• He gave an excellent talk in primary on Sunday (and bore his own sweet testimony about the importance of mothers (*sniff sniff* loving it)

• He prepared an AMAZING poster for a topic talk at school by himself - the pictures he drew were so good (i can't even believe i didn't take a picture before it went to school.....SO unlike me)

• He received a MERIT award because his topic talk was so well presented (apparently he was the only one who got one that day for the talks (more about that to come)

• He was chosen to be the new CTR8s class president (proud parent moment)

• He got a singing time award in sharing time
  

• He read an entire novel over the week (which took him just over 3 hours......so dedicated)

• He is doing EXCELLENT on the piano......it's amazing watching him learn so quickly

• He is VERY grateful for things he is given
  

• He's always a great big brother and loves to help out and play with Jazzy
  

This list could go on but we'll leave it at that and call this his 'highlight' list.

So the next question you may ask is "what did he receive" (other than the title, and an acrostic poem about R.Y.L.A.N (for some reason he loves these kinds of poems). I have to say the best thing that goes along with this award is that the winner gets to sit next to Chad-dad at the dinner table, everyday for the whole week. I would love to say that the boys fight over me every.single.night, but, it's just not true :) I do usually get a charity "oh yay I get to sit with mum" but really both these boys idolise their dad and it's a fight as to who will have the honor of sitting directly next to him at the table.

So here's to a new tradition in the Aston household and hooray for Rylan for being such a star!!

We love you buddy!!!