My MIL, the boys and I all worked together to make the fun “BOO” craft that I saw on my new favorite craft website. I am not very crafty AT ALL, so I get very excited when I see something I think I can actually do. I think it turned out pretty cute.
Archive for September 2010
Colm was SO ready for his testing. After watching Liam do this for the past two years, Colm already thinks he knows everything. 🙂 He did SUCH a great job and we are so proud of him!
(Project 365-9/24/10)
My in-laws were here this weekend. The boys SO enjoyed them being here. It’s hard to not live near the grandparents, especially since we lived so close to them for so long.
Playing Minotaurus with Papa. (HIGHLY recommend this game, by the way.)
Making Halloween sugar cookies with Nanny.
I can’t believe Liam is a brown belt already! He has been doing TKD for almost two years now. He has really put a lot of effort into it and we are so proud of him.
Warming Up
Form
Kicks
Breaking his board
(Project 365-9/23/10)
He earned enough stripes on his belt to get a trophy. They earn stripes by showing certain positive attributes at home.
We love to go to the library around here, but the last time we went we checked out WAY too many books…I think it was somewhere around 70. Yep. Clearly, we can’t read that many books so I let the boys take them all home for a day or two to see which ones they were really going to read and then I hauled all of the extras plus the ones they’ve already read back to the library today. I love books as much as the next person, but it makes me nervous having that many library books checked out all at the same time.
The boys were SO excited when they heard they were going to get to scrimmage a team made up of U11 girls. First of all, they love to scrimmage, so much more fun than boring old practice and these girls were older! Now, if I am going to be honest, I must say that I was a little worried that these 5th grade girls were going to wipe up the field with these third grade boys (and Colm who is only in first grade, but the coach lets him practice with them anyways). I am pleased to announce, however, that the boys did AWESOME and the girls only scored one goal in the last five minutes of the game. I might also add that we played on their field which is much bigger than the field the boys are used to which means A LOT more running and the goals are a lot bigger, too. I was very impressed and so were the coaches.
Now that the boys are back in school I have had a lot more time to do things like bake. I’ve also been doing a lot more baking so that the boys have goodies to eat for breakfast, snacks and dessert. I made these yummy lemon muffins tonight. They are a little sweet, but would be great with some coffee or hot tea.
We bought the boys (and Sean) Risk last weekend and they have been begging (driving me nuts) to play it, but Risk takes forever to play and we just didn’t have time this week. (Colm asked me AT LEAST 100 times this week if we could play Risk….I’m not exaggerating). So, finally, tonight we had time. They are playing it as I type and they are having a blast. That said, I think the tide is going to turn soon because someone has to lose and I have a feeling it’s going to be someone from the 8 and under age group.
I have been desperate for a good scrapbooking place around here. Since I had nowhere else to go, I went to Michael’s a few weeks ago, but it was uber-disappointing. I decided to try again and found a place relatively near me. I am so glad I went there. It is a great locally owned shop AND they were having a HUGE sale. Bonus!
