Fully Animated

Tristan has always been rather animated. He's loud and outgoing and a rather personable character. That was never more true than in the final week of school, when his class presented their "Wax Museum" of historical characters.

Tristan chose to be Napoleon Bonaparte. He did the whole thing on his own - researched and read books then wrote a whole long paper about Napoleon. He made a big display board for the event (see it in the background?). He even convinced me to attempt to make him a Napoleon hat... which was only marginally successful. But by the day of the wax museum he was ready!

If you look at the photo below you'll see a little sticker on his hand. That was his "on" button. Whenever someone pushed the button he gave a speech to inform them about his character. Well he got quite into it and gathered quite a following of kids! He spoke with such conviction and was so animated that they all loved him. And Brian and I couldn't help but notice that he always drew quite a crowd. The kids would push his button over and over just to hear him talk and he was quite happy to entertain them all.
Of course, it doesn't hurt if you're brandishing a sword too! LOL I only wish that I had our video camera that day to capture his spiel. I was truly impressed with him and his entire project.