Painting his face to look like Batman. Hmmm…I am not quite sure that’s what it turned out to look like, but he seemed pleased with his efforts.
Making a clay pot.
Creating something in “The Garage”… a special room for the five and up crowd.
(Project 365-3/22/10)
Waterworks
One of the perks of living here that we were so looking forward to when deciding to move here was being able to shop at Trader Joe’s. I can’t believe it took us seven weeks to finally get there. After church we stopped by and had some samples and picked up some goodies including some of the infamous Two Buck Chuck. I had heard all about it but hadn’t yet had the “honor” of tasting it. We had some with our dinner that night. The verdict? I thought it was fine. Sean poured his out after about two sips. It only costs $2.99; I am not sure what he was expecting. 🙂
Saturday was a beautiful day and a great day for baseball practice.
Getting warmed up.
Waiting for a ball to come his way.
(Project 365-3/20/10)
Getting ready for his first time up to bat.
This is his first year doing coach pitch. He did a great job at his first time up to bat.
I am not sure I like how kids get signed up for baseball here. They don’t sign kids up by age or grade, but rather when they started T-ball. Since we did T-ball last year our choices were to have him do T-ball again, which would have been silly since he is definitely ready for something more, or to sign him up to be on a team where most of the kids are at least one year older than him. Most of the kids are first and second graders who did T-ball for the first time last year. So far Colm is holding his own, but we shall see how the rest of the season pans out.
These are both very cute, fun and easy games that don’t take too long. We were able to play both of them in under twenty minutes.
This is the gold medal that Liam’s tae kwon do teacher won at the Olympics in Barcelona. The boys think it is so cool that they know someone who has won a gold medal.
This little project got started when Liam came home complaining that EVERY second grade class but his had made leprechaun traps at school that day. Coupled with the “gold” that Colm had found at school that day when a leprechaun visited his classroom, Liam and Colm set out to make their traps.
Drawing lots of shamrocks that eventually ended up on Colm’s trap.
The shamrocks Colm drew and I believe the yellow part is gold or a pot of gold.
Colm’s trap…notice the shamrock path with the gold piece at the end as bait. 🙂
(Project 365-3/17/10)
Liam’s trap…complete with a ladder so the leprechauns could get in and then the note on the box says, “All leprechauns allowed”.
Unfortunately, they didn’t catch any leprechauns this year. Maybe next year. 🙂
Companies can get away with crap like this when we put too much trust in them.
We haven’t shopped at Whole Foods for a while and this is one of the reasons why.
Sunday-Italian Sausage with tomatoes and peppers, baguette
Monday-Stirfry noodles with broccoli, onions and celery in a peanut sauce
Tuesday-Sean has a business dinner
Wednesday-Crockpot Enchiladas
Thursday-Chicken Noodle Soup
Friday-Pasta
Saturday- Kitchen Closed
This is where you will find Colm and me every Tuesday morning.
Colm won this quilt in an auction at the boys’ school. He is so proud of it. 🙂 He didn’t want to hang it in his room because he was worried it would scare him at night, so we hung it in the hallway by the kitchen.
