Mommathon

Liam and I spent this afternoon packing lots of citrus fruit into 5 lb. bags at the Oregon Food Bank with his First Communion class.

Belt testing is coming up in the next month or so. Here is Colm learning his form from one of the black belts.

The boys didn’t have school on Friday, so on Thursday Liam had a sleepover with his best bud. They played video games, played with Legos and we also went out to eat to Red Robin. They went to bed at a decent hour which I was very happy about, too.

I am not a coffee fan at all, but I do like a good hazelnut steamer every now and again. There is a coffee shop in town that makes the BEST steamers, but they aren’t anywhere near where I live. Sometimes if I am in a pinch, I will get one at Starbucks and I am always disappointed. Why do I continue to get them there when I am disappointed every time? I have no idea.

So professional with his bamboo and goat hair brush.

Liam has been asking if he could cook dinner some night. He also wanted to create his own dish. As you can imagine I was a little leery about the latter part of this request. I must say though that he did a FANTASTIC job! He made a french onion split pea soup which is kind of funny since I am the only person in the house that likes peas.

I do not allow these in the house. Why? Because I will EAT them!!!! Sean HAD to have them though. My compromise was that he could buy the little bag. I have been practicing large-huge amounts of self control and I have only had three chips. Did you know that nine chips is a serving? That’s ridiculous! Who sits down to eat chips and only eats nine? Not me, that’s for sure.

Colm’s first basketball game was today. They did fantastic. Colm made two baskets and is an expert in defense. 🙂 Watch him. He cracks me up…he is all over that other kid.

Liam doesn’t know these kids and it doesn’t matter. These boys have a DS and a box of Pokemon cards and they are all waiting for their younger brothers to get done playing basketball which means they have an hour to spend doing what 7-10 year old boys love to do.

Never, in the history of the world, have these three figures come together all at once. They did tonight though at Liam’s school’s third grade wax museum. Each child had researched a well-known person, written a report, memorized a speech and done a few other extension projects about their person. Tonight all of the third graders filled up the gym and the cafeteria dressed as their person. They each held a pose until you came up and stepped on a rectangular button that was on the floor that they had decorated. Once you stepped on the button, they “came to life”, recited their memorized speech about their person (delivered in first person) and then went back into their pose until someone else came up and stepped on their button. We had everyone from Anne Frank, to Barack Obama to Cleopatra. It was definitely a fun-filled and educational evening for all!