We had a fantastic Halloween complete with pumpkin decorating/carving, trick-or-treating and perfect fall weather.
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The mask and helmet never even made it out the door. They realized that trick-or-treating was going to be a lot easier without them.
The first house
Here is Liam playing Hunter’s Chorus:
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Where is the video of Colm you ask? Very good question. Both of Colm’s parents were temporarily technologically impaired at the exact same time and we have no video. All his teacher has them do for their first recital is take a bow and he took a marvelous bow. It was spectacular…the best bow ever, but I have to video to show you. 🙁
It was an innocent mistake…a pluck of the string that was a little too hard and out popped Colm’s bridge. It scared the heck out of him and he sobbed and sobbed. He tried to get it back in himself and he would not listen to me when I told him he was going to make it worse if he ended up breaking the bridge in half; he was bound and determined to fix it himself. Well, obviously that didn’t happen, since it takes a little know how to get that done, but Colm’s teacher did graciously fixed it for us.
The bridge is the light wooden part that holds the strings up. It’s all fixed in this picture.
Ninja Kangaroo…don’t ask…
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He likes to paint his face…can you tell? Trouble is, it doesn’t come off quite as easily as it goes on. I think I scrubbed a layer of skin off of his face that night. It still didn’t all come off. He went to school the next morning looking a little more colorful than normal.
Parent-teacher conferences were today. Both of the boys’ teachers had great things to say about each of them and also talked about areas that they could both improve in as well. I am very proud of both of them! They are both working very hard and making lots of progress. This is a photo I snapped outside of Colm’s classroom while I was waiting for my turn to talk with his teacher.
I got this book from a friend of mine. She said it’s really good, but a little racy. I think that’s a very good description. I thought I pretty much knew the story of Anne Boleyn, but this story takes you behind the scenes of how she became queen…who she stepped on on her way up the “royal ladder” and what extremes she might have gone through to give the king a son.
There are six wooden pillars in the church like the ones you see in this picture. The fourth graders from our church (there are maybe 20 of them) went onto the property before the land was cleared and got to pick which six trees from the site would become those pillars.
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Everyone who went to the dedication today received one of these. They are made from the trees that were harvested at the site where the church now stands.
Colm receiving his trophy and some kind words from coach.
