Snoped.

I wish it was true, but it isn't

That was on here before - somewhere.

D'oh!

Lil Pete Overtime Victory
 

Tied up 14 all after 3 periods, one minute overtime.

Bravo. Congrats to the lady. :thumb2:

Not having children, I borrow other people's.

Cool things your cow orkers kids do ...

http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=115823

It was Pinewood Derby day!

My son's last one -- he crosses over to Boy Scouts this spring. We've enjoyed the Pinewood Derby. One year he won 1st place in his division - that was Bears, I believe.

This year, he won Best Original Design!

Check it out. Yes, he had help from dad actually making it, but the idea and design was all his (with a little advice).

Sorry that the photo quality isn't the best. My good camera isn't working right and I had to use my old one.

Nice! That put a smile on my face.

It's Jack!
Wonderful.

darlet #1 passed her road test yesterday - in the Accord with manual transmission. The driving examiner was impressed both because she took the test in a manual, plus she never ground the gears.

Congrats! I dunno if I'm ready for drivers...

SonofV made a PowerPoint presentation for me while I worked late tonight.

Love that boy!

I just thought I'd put a little brag in here about my boys (again...sorry).

Mav was elected house captain last week after only being at the school since the start of the year (about 4 weeks ago), and Aden was declared 'Age Champion' at his swimming carnival last week and is today representing his school at the district carnival.

I don't know what I did to deserve such fine young men, but they're a credit to themselves.

eta: Mav being elected house captain caused a bit of strife with some of the old kids who've been at the school for years and Mavs mate Mitch (who happens to have just started at the school too) ended up getting a punch in the nose for it on the bus on the way home. We'll see what the outcome of that is when they get home today. Aden wanted to run off and punch the puncher in the nose to return the favour on Friday, but I didn't think that'd help the situation much so they stayed home and bitched about him instead.

Two personal bests each for my boys at Winter swim championships yesterday, Plus ribbon/points places for my oldest in eveything and a heat winner in the last race to boot, in an event where he was seeded 23rd and cam in 15th (breaststroke). let's see what the girl an do this afternoon -although she already got a personal best in the IM on Friday afternoon at the Middle School Swim Meet. she just ate ten pancakes for breakfast, though, so sinking may be an option :lol:

WTG boys...good luck to girl! :)

No PBs for Hebe, but she placed in the breaststroke and she only just "aged up" so she was swimming agaianst kids two years older then her (and twice her size with boobs and make-up and everything :eek: ...these girls are just turned 13 at the very oldest ....if they must wear make-up, why has nobody told them about waterproof stuff? complete bunch of pandas by the end :lol:)

Okay, okay, it's not really "cool", just a developmental thing, but as a first-time mommy... my one year old can now CORRECTLY brush her own hair and teeth! (of course, Mommy or Daddy helps her with her teeth, just to be sure she doesn't miss any... of the eight lol)

Darlet #2 set school records in both the 200 & 300 meter events in indoor track this season.

SuhWeet!!! Those are very very competitive events, so rock on Darlet#2!!

Darlet #1 just got her ACT scores - 33 overall, 33s and one 34 on the sections.

Woot!

I have no idea what those numbers mean, but since you're proud: WooHoo Darlet!!! :cheerldr:

Thanks QotR.

36 is max. Over 30 is considered good. She's in pretty good shape for any college she wants to apply for (and hopefully some scholarship money - crosses fingers).

I have a cute story about what my grandson told my wife the other day...

My wife told me she didn't sleep well the other night. She said she kept having dreams about Rattlesnakes and big hairy spiders. Well, my wife was watching him (he's 4) and she dozed off on the sofa. Apparently he went up to grandma and pushed on her. My wife woke up to see what it was he wanted and he spoke up and told grandma "you were sleeping." My wife told him she didn't sleep very well last night. He asked "why?" And grandma told him that she had a bad dream of "snakes and spiders."

Well, the little guy went over to his toy box and rummaged around in it for a bit. He finally said in an excited voice "found it!" He then went over to his grandma and laid a Dreamcatcher on the end table next to her and told her; "here grandma, you won't have any more bad dreams now."

Cute.

Seems like forever ago that my girls were that age.

Sweet!

Lil Pete was a monster fencing last weekend. That is all.

That may be all, but it's awesome.

:)

Awww...about the dream catcher. My kids have them, and when they were little sometimes they'd have bad dreams anyway. They'd want to know why they had bad dreams despite the dream catcher, and I told them it must need to be cleaned out. So we'd go over and open the window, hold it up and both of us blow it out. Then we'd hang it up on the wall again, and the problem was solved.

Anyway...

Tomorrow is the last day of the clinic for the junior high competition cheer squad. Over 4 days, coaches and judges have been evaluating the girls, and when I pick her up at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon she will have an envelope in her hand that tells whether or not she made the team.

She already made the football sidelines squad, but this is something extra. It is a BIG deal, too.

Last year she got picked as an alternate, but this was probably because she missed two of the clinic dates due to a scheduling conflict with summer camp. She's really very good - she can do all the fancy tumbling stuff like handsprings and even a standing back tuck.

Cross your fingers for her! I'll let you know what happens.

Just a random thought....

After Sheldon posted in the "pictures of your offspring" thread ...

please, no.

Not here.

Miss Dallas and Young Master Dallas both auditioned for a local youth orchestra on Saturday. Last night we learned by email that they both got in.

It was almost a shoe-in for Miss Dallas, even though she's mentally checking out of almost everything requiring effort as the school year ends. There are very few orchestras at this level that don't need every competent cellist they can get their hands on.

As a trumpet player, and considerably younger (going into 5th grade) than most of the kids in the orchestra (8th-9th for the most part), Young Master Dallas was much more doubtful. He's very good, but just from a numbers standpoint they were unlikely to be looking for more than one or at most two new trumpets.

The girl has developed a new art technique:

1) Find a wet patch on the back porch where the water hose leaks;
2) rub large-sized sidewalk chalk into the wet area to create a highly-pigmented paste (looks like oil pastels);
3) place your tiny, cute hands in the paste and then make little colorful handprints all over stuff in the backyard.

I think this is pretty creative for a 2 year-old kid to have come up with completely on her own.

That IS very creative, Flint!

Love it Flint!

And woo hoo Dallas juniors!

What about your littel cheerleader, Juni?

Princess OTR "graduates" from Kindergarten tomorrow - we got the letter last week confirming she will be in the "gifted" classes for First Grade. Yes, I am bragging.

Yeah what happ with iddy biddy cheer leader?

Cool stuff guys!

She's not itty bitty -- she is taller than me!

And...she made the squad! Yippee!

That means...um, another $350 added to the pay-to-play costs. But that's a lot cheaper than what the private gym charged for the all-star squad last year, so I'm not complaining. I don't have to buy her uniform or warm-ups, they're borrowed from the school. I think the only expense besides pay-to-play is the shoes ($70 for competition shoes, $40 for the sidelines shoes, yes, of course they must use different ones) and travel expenses for all these competitions, some out of state. Fun!

It also means NO EYE GLITTER! (whew!)

Oh huge congrats to the new all-star!

It went way too fast...
 

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Kindergarten Graduation! Woot Woot!
This was the "unofficial" celebration - (I promise she dresed up way more for the real thing...)

Ain't that sweet! I don't think my kids had a K graduation. Preschool, yes. :)

Thors first lego stop motion animation. ( mine too, I'm figuring it out as we go along). It's importnat that it's on you tube, as they watch a lot of lego stuff there (a lot of which is very good)

No sound as yet.



The plot, truck carrying bomb, overshhots mark, reverses, drops off bomb.
Storm trooper kicks bomb back onto truck, blasts bomb, which explodes.
Stormtroopers rejoice

My son loves doing that stuff, but we haven't figured out how to make an actual video yet. I admit, I haven't been motivated to try. :( How do you do it? What do you use? He's made a lot of photo series/slideshows. Very creative.

Bravo, Thor! :)

Did you see how awesomely they set the scene? putting fake dust on that shelf and everything

:rolleyes:

:lol:

lol, I mean, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

If you ever run out and the kids need more dust for, you know, staging purposes...I've been saving some I could mail to you.

New swim/dive season, second dive meet, all three took first place in their age/gender category. No outside competition (other team is swim only), but each beat at least two others

Good stuff!

And all of a sudden it's Swim/Dive Championships week again. Hector dropped 9 seconds (1:39 to 1:31) -that's 8%! in his 100y individual medley and took 11th place out of 34 -he was seeded 16th. top 16 score points for the team. His medley relay was also 11th.

I was surprised to learn that hector's free relay also scored (we had to leave before results were posted to get to hebe's dive)

and then today....

teeny-weeny cutesy 7yo Thor, who took a whole minute off his 3 minute 100free time on Saturday, not only repeated that swim but shaved off another 2 seconds and took 16th (which is the last scoring place) and beat out a fair few 8-year-olds. Finally he has mastered the freestyle. both of his relays placed too. he was DQd in the breaststroke, though, -as were 50% of the starters :lol:

Future Olympians, perhaps? Bravo Hector and Thor!

Um, but, what is DQ'd? Oh, disqualified...right? Why?

Steroids.

Don't make them swim over there and kick your ass, Zen.

dunno yet. probably illegal kick.

makes it sound like a martial art, huh? ;)

Hebe swims and hector dives tomorrow

In breast stroke don't they have to touch the wall with two hands as with butterfly? I know that's how heaps of kids got disqualified at my boys latest swimming comp.

yup. but thor did, so his DQ was something else. Like his kick. because he finds a flutter kick faster :lol:

You're not allowed to make a splash with your feet in breast stroke either. Not even a little one! Maybe that was it?

That would seem pretty tough for little kids though.

unlikely, given his kick but you're right, no splash allowed. my money's on the flutter kick though. It's not a biggie and not a suprise.

Hebe got 7th in the breaststroke (out of about 70) and she only just moved up into the age group :D

Hoorah!
Lil'Pete won the junior women's and women's events at the Keystone Games over the weekend. Two gold shineys for her!

Excellent, wtg lil'pete