Trying to decide on a fabric for the Roman shades that will cover our sliding glass door:
These are on the bench at our kitchen table:
Colm and his teammate wait for their turn to play soccer.
Father Boyle is a saint on earth. His work with Homeboy Industries has caught the attention of everyone from Japanese tourists to the White House and once you read this book you will understand why. He is hope for gang members in L.A. He gives them what no one else ever has and the results are amazing. Not all of his stories have happy endings though and that is the hardest part. No matter how much one of these kids wants to turn their lives around sometimes their environment gets the better of them. This book will make you chuckle and it will probably make you cry, too. You will definitely learn a thing or two about who you are along the way as well. Read it. You won’t regret it.
Colm has been saving up his allowance for a butterfly net and today was the day he finally had enough money. Off to the toy store we went and LUCKILY they still had some. (I can’t imagine the drama that would have taken place if they had run out while he was saving up his money.) Anyway, he and I walked all over the neighborhood hunting down butterflies. Guess what? No butterflies. So I reached WAAAAAY back in my memory to my summers spent as a camp counselor at a science-based summer camp and remembered an activity we did with the kids. They each got a butterfly net and ran through the meadow with the net in the tall grass. They always came back with plenty of insects to study. So, we have several empty lots in our area and the way it has been raining lately the weeds on those lots are starting to resemble the long grasses of a meadow. It worked today to. We didn’t find tons of insects, but he caught plenty. Maybe we’ll find some butterflies tomorrow.
Liam has been a blue belt for the past six months. He missed testing right before we moved and then it took us a while to find a TKD place we liked here, so he missed testing again. Today he FINALLY got to test. He did a great job and I am so glad he doesn’t have to practice his blue belt form any more. I doubt he will ever forget it he has done it so many times.
Kicking
Form
Breaking a board with his elbow.
(Project 365-6/3/10)
He actually gets his new belt next week during class. 🙂
Colm and I usually end up playing baseball, basketball and/or soccer outside for the good part of most mornings before he goes to afternoon kindy, but since it has been raining almost non-stop here for the past two weeks we haven’t been able to do as much of that. While trying to decide what he wanted to do today he remembered his science kit that he got for his birthday two birthdays ago that we never used but found last week while we were unpacking some boxes.
We learned about acids and bases…here is Colm the scientist writing down his findings.
Colm doesn’t like his apples sliced and it is too hard for him to eat one whole. He does, however, love his apples cut into spirals…cored, peeled and spiraled, that is.
Since our beach plans got rained out, we decided to head out to OMSI. Liam had already been there on a field trip and wanted to go back and the rest of us had never been there so off we went.
Project 365-5/31/10
Trying to get their sailboats to work.
There is a real (former) Navy sub at the museum that you can go on. It was very cool, but I can’t imagine living in those close quarters for 90 days at a time. I think know I would get claustrophobic.
Colm the astronaut
We picked these up at the farmers’ market this weekend. I have never ever bought radishes before. I was so excited to get these though. Radishes remind me of my grandma’s house. When I was little my grandma had a huge garden in her backyard and she always had radishes, along with tomatoes, cucumbers and green onions. During the summer, you would be hard-pressed to sit down to a meal at my grandma’s house and not be offered a radish with a dash of salt on top.
We had these tonight with our dinner. I sliced a baguette, spread butter on each slice and then put the thinly sliced radishes on top of the butter. Sean, Liam and I really liked them. They were crunchy!