Do you recognize this cute little toddler dancing to his Elmo guitar??? This is Liam right before his second birthday. He had received that Elmo guitar for Christmas a month earlier and obviously loved it VERY much! 🙂
Archive for May 2009
He did a great job at his first game, but who cares about all that? How cute is he? Seriously. 🙂
Swim trunks? Check. Sunscreen? Check. Popsicles? Check.
At the end of the school year, the boys go through all of their work and pick out three pieces of art work each that they would like to hang in the art gallery in their toy room for the year. It’s a fun way to go back through all of their work, reminisce and see how much they’ve grown. These are the pieces they chose to put in the gallery this year:
Liam’s
This was from a science project he did. It was the picture that went along with the report he wrote about giraffes.
Colm’s
Field day this year was kind of a bust since it was inside, thanks to Mother Nature, but everyone seemed to have a good time despite the change in plans.
There have been many studies done about how boys socialize through playing video games and I will back their study up 100%. Some kids like to go outside and play kickball after school, not Liam. He and his friends like to play video games. I will admit that it bothers me a little. I would love for him to be outdoors running around breathing in all that fresh air and getting all that exercise. I also love that he and his friends have a fun activity that they like to do together. I love listening to them chatter while they play and I know they spend time during school plotting and planning whose house they are going to go to after school. So, while I do make him go outside and get some fresh air and exercise, I also recognize that he’s not just turning his brain to mush while playing video games with his friends. They are talking, socializing, solidifying their friendships and blasting the heck out of the bad guys all at the same time. 🙂
I was waiting for Colm to get out of class the other day and since I was a little early I picked up a newspaper to read while I was waiting. The paper was the school newspaper from Rockhurst High School. The front page was a whole article about how rampant cheating is at the school, how students are cheating, why students are cheating and the ways teachers are helping kids cheat with or without even realizing it (the teachers were even called lazy at one point in the article). Then I turned the page and there was an article about how a student had gotten trampled when the junior boys raided/rushed the “senior staircase”. It happened once, they were told not to do it again, but they did it anyways. There was a picture accompanying the article which looked like it was pure chaos. This is a school that most of the men in Sean’s family have attended and that my two younger brothers attended as well. This school has a reputation of being a great Jesuit school with strong academics and incredibly supportive and active alumni. As a parent, however, it looks to me like the kids are running the place. I have heard people say negative things about Rockhurst and how uncontrollable they can be at games and such and I always blew it off when people said things like that. I think I am beginning to understand where they are coming from. I hope the administration can get things straightened out. I am sure it is still a good school, but it seems to me like there are some high schoolers that need to be put in their place, some administrators who need to lay down the law and some parents who need to take action as well.
I sent Colm upstairs to get some shorts.
He came back downstairs and told me he had picked out some “long-sleeved shorts”.
Um, we call those pants, kiddo. 🙂
These beauties smell HEAVENLY!!!
A nest in our red oak…no babies in there yet.