One of Colm’s homework assignments for this month was to draw a picture of something you like to do at school. Colm drew a picture of himself playing basketball. What I love about this picture is that he drew clouds over the sun because he hates playing basketball when it’s too sunny because the sun gets in his eyes when he is trying to shoot a basket.
Today I got to go to a volunteer luncheon at the boys’ school. It was a bit overwhelming since there were a ton of people there and I didn’t really know anyone, but I went anyway since Liam was going to be singing as part of our entertainment and he was very excited about the song the music teacher had taught them. (It was a very cute song, by the way.) The food was great and the second graders did a fantastic job singing. I even managed to find someone I knew to eat with.
I am WAY behind with my scrapbooking. The last thing in the boys’ books is from our trip to the zoo the day after Halloween. Granted, I have been a teeny weeny bit busy lately and all of my scrapbooks were locked up in storage for three months, so I have a pretty good excuse. Last night I ordered all of the things I needed to get started back up again including new albums for the boys (they get one for each year of their life and they have both had a birthday since we moved), page protectors and adhesive. I also ordered scattles of pictures. My scrapbooking closet is ready and as soon as all of my supplies get here, I will be ready to go…
Liam came home today and told me that he thought he had accidentally thrown his lunch sack away. What?! How do you accidentally throw a lunch sack away? Is it a huge deal? No, I suppose not, but I just recently bought him some reusable cloth sandwich/snack bags for his lunch and there were three of them in his lunch bag that day. Those are not cheap. Oh, and he also has a reusable Sigg. Not cheap. So, is it a big deal that he lost/threw away/can’t find his lunch sack? No, but it’s an expensive deal and he better find it tomorrow or it’s going to turn into a big deal. 🙂
*** Update: The lunch sack was found and all is well.
We went for a hike today in Forest Park. We had been there once before when we first moved here and since the weather was so beautiful today we decided to head out there again, but this time we took our dog, too. I didn’t take my camera this time because I just wanted to enjoy the hike, but the boys found a lot of “interesting” things and I had the camera on my phone so….
This guy was pretty darn big.
The boys found a lot of these. Colm is learning about butterflies at school so he was certain that they were caterpillars.
(Project 365-5/16/2010)
This one kind of creeped me out a little bit. I had Colm stand next to him so you could see how big he was. Colm wears a Size 3 shoe. (Yes, I know, he has big feet.)
Some pretty flowers to make up for all of the other pictures.
The boys were fascinated with the mushrooms growing on this tree; it was covered with them.
These were the pictures I agreed to take. I did not take any pictures of all the dead rodents in various stages of decay that we found along the path. You can thank me later. 🙂
Baseball games are LONG and the poor siblings that are dragged to all of these games have to figure out what to do to pass the time. Sean got Liam this frisbee/boomerang thing. He LOVES it. It took him a while to figure it out, but once he did he was a having a blast.
P.S. This is the first picture taken with my new camera once I got a mini-lesson about how to use it from an acquaintance. Sean actually took this picture though.
I got to spend part of my afternoon with Liam’s class. They are a great group of kids. The day I was there they were learning about Lois Mailou Jones.
The landscaper who did our yard really liked rhododendrons…maybe they were on sale at the time. Either way, we have a lot of them.
These flowers remind me of my grandma. I found these beauties outside the boys’ school.
We are halfway through baseball season now and Colm’s team is doing awesome! First, let me say, that he has the best coaches. One of them LOVES baseball. LOVES it. He is also great with kids. Not only does he encourage our own team, but he is great at encouraging the kids on the teams we play. Our other coach also loves baseball, but he is no nonsense. He doesn’t let the boys mess around. He makes sure the batting helmets get put back where they are supposed to be when the boys are done with them and he doesn’t let them leave practice until everything is cleaned up.
I think Colm’s team lost the first seven games they played, some of them by double-digits. It was not pretty. Now they are actually fielding the balls, making outs and hitting the ball. It has been so much fun to see how much they have grown in the past six weeks.
Now a grumble…Colm is playing coach pitch baseball…this is what kids do in between T-ball and kid pitch. So, when Colm goes up to bat his coach pitches to him. Well, last night our coach was not doing a great job of pitching and accidentally hit a couple of kids with the ball when he pitched-Colm included. When that happens the batter has the choice of either walking to first or staying at bat and trying to hit the ball. Apparently, the coach from the other team complained to the league offices today to say that our coach was PURPOSEFULLY hitting his own players so he could walk them. Seriously? Does that even make sense? Would a grown man purposefully pitch balls at little kids to win a game? So, tonight our coach didn’t pitch to our kids, someone else did. We still won.