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Haircut
08.14.13 | Permalink | | Comments Off on Haircut
It’s amazing to me that it takes hardly anything for a little boy to turn from baby to kindergartener.
Just a few snips here and there and before me is an elementary aged child.
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Bat-Boy
08.11.13 | Permalink | | Comments Off on Bat-BoyWe went for a walk tonight. Jude wore this:
Oh no, we weren’t a spectacle AT ALL!
(We didn’t mind, of course.)
In all seriousness, Jude flapped his way around the neighborhood, looking for danger at every corner… Our neighbors are the good sort, willing to make comments on the Dark Knight keeping our neighborhood safe. Jude beamed with pride and whispered to us,
“They didn’t know who I really am! I tricked them!”
I think they made his life. 🙂
Thank you, Neighbors!
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Color Me Rad
08.10.13 | Permalink | | Comments Off on Color Me Rad*this is a direct copy from my weightloss blog. It just needed to be noted here, as well, that we did something awesome this weekend!!!
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Today I woke up at 6:30, crawled out of bed, rubbed the bleariness from my eyes and woke my kids up to head to the Color Me Rad 5K (the race where you are pelted with color while you run, ending up with a colored shirt and body by the time you cross the finish line). This is the race that motivated me to get my rear end moving so I wouldn’t be humiliated by needing to walk the whole thing… My motivation to train! My extra reason to get out and run 3+ miles a few times a week! Turns out, I needn’t have worried. This was definitely a fun run with lots and lots of people who started out walking or were walking by the end of the first half mile AND it was untimed! Relax, right?! But it was all worth it.
I was fortunate enough to amass a small team. We were called ‘Pink Shazam’ and we ran with two of my former students and their moms. Sorry about the photo editing. 🙂
It turned out great because cool mom #1 and I seemed to be at about the same pace. Cool mom #2 kept up with the boys while CM#1 and I kept chugging along from the rear. Gigi took off like a rocket and kept going. After the first quarter mile or so I didn’t even see her anymore!
I was really proud of our team. Every one of us ran the entire time, never stopping once to walk or anything. Our mile times ranged from 10:56-11:37, which was nice, consistent pacing for me. Our total time was about 36 minutes. While not competitive, necessarily,it was very satisfying. This totally goes down in the books as a success. I had a fabulous time getting really dirty!
At the end of it all, our wave stood in a circle, burst colors and danced about. Terribly fun. I can’t wait to do it again next year! And get this- Jude wants to run next time! We will start the training soon!
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Kissylips
08.02.13 | Permalink | | Comments Off on Kissylips
Love is paramount in our house.
And laughing. We really like to laugh, too.
On this day we were just fooling around with cameras, playing kissylips games, making sure everyone had equal parts of lips all over their faces…
Bradley taught Gigi the fine art of mugging like a goofball for selfie pics…
And Jude successfully navigated his first major photo bomb!
Ha ha!
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Free Museum Thursday
08.01.13 | Permalink | | Comments Off on Free Museum Thursday
Frye Art Museum
Where we saw fine art, film, photography, found art, sculpture and even e featured artist. Lunch was eaten and the world marveled at, appropriately. The Frye is my favorite art museum. It is always free with free parking and their definition of art is broad and inclusive. It’s a lovely place to visit.
Our children were unimpressed with the Asian Art Museum but loved climbing the stairs of the water tower where I saw my favorite graffiti of the da
I did a little research and found many more examples online of this person’s tag. Then it was off to the arboretum…
The kids were fascinated with the carnivorous plants and the cacti. We tried to make it to the SAM to see the creative Japanese fashion, but tourists were thick and downtown insane. We left, but learned that we are very ready for art museums.
