I just posted our Christmas card for December 2013. Yeah, it’s a little late…
I put it under Dec 2013 so it looks like I was on time!
I just posted our Christmas card for December 2013. Yeah, it’s a little late…
I put it under Dec 2013 so it looks like I was on time!
Here a few videos of Jack’s Hip Hop recital this weekend. Jack was nervous and excited about it all week. He is a funny boy who loves to be the center of attention as long as it is not official. Then he is a little intimidated…
The quality of the videos is terrible with the lighting, but it’s what I have.
Jack is front and center when the dance starts.
He moves to the middle back for a while, but hard to see.
At about 1:00 he comes back to the front (just to the right of audience guy’s head.)
The “dad’s dance” was a surprise for Jack from Eric (though sadly, Jack only gets to see it via video since he was backstage.) He was thrilled anyway.
Eric walks on from the right at :45. You can see him much better at 1:15 (second from the right) for about 15 seconds. He skips (yes, I said skips) back on at 2:04 in the purple mask.
(to the tune of "We Three Kings")
We three sing of twenty-thirteen
telling you how our year has been
swimmin', loungin',
Whistler mountain
that was our summer scene
Oh, move to Bellevue, house just right
French school days and "U-dub" nights
life indeed's quick-
ly proceeding
proven by the boys' great heights!
Owen's king of clever disguise
football, soccer, Lego surprise
third grade member
jacket? Never!
hoodies are all he likes...
"O" likes to wonder, likes to write
loves for things to be "just right"
list composing,
fact disclosing,
off the ramp, his bike takes flight!
Jack is working hard in first grade
cursive script and poems are his faves
math equation,
art invasion!
loving the friends he's made
oh, missing 4 teeth; hard to bite
skateboard fun and turtle fight!
great joke timing,
clever rhyming
cooking up our meal tonight.
We've worked hard on our Christmas rhyme
to bring some joy to your Christmas time
We hope you've liked
how we've described
a little bit of our lives!
*****
Merry Christmas
All our love!
Julie, Owen, and Jack
Last night the boys wanted graham crackers. There was one and a half left in the package.
Mama: Owen, if you can tell me how much of one and a half graham crackers you each get, then you can share them.
Jack (who finds great thrill in beating Owen to the punch-line of a math problem): One-half and one-fourth!
Owen: I was going to say that!
Mama: Owen, do you know how to say that in fourths?
Owen(who finds great thrill in knowing concepts that are over Jack’s head): I do, but I want to say that we get 75% of one cracker.
I have flat-ironed my hair nearly every day for I don’t know how many years… and before that I dried it to make it go straight.
I recently got my hair cut and my hair dresser suggested sometimes wearing my hair wavy – since it is naturally that way and I was worrying about the damage that might be caused by the flat iron.
I have tried this wavy thing one or two times, and was going this route this morning but got distracted with lunch preparation, shoe locations, and other exciting morning routines. By the time I remembered my hair, it had moved from wavy to frizzy…
I fixed it the best I could, but it was iffy. Still, I didn’t have time to dry and flat-iron it – I had to get the boys to school and then was out all day.
Of course, it is the day that you think your hair looks bad that you run into all kinds of people that you don’t normally see… at least 7 different people that I haven’t seen in weeks, in my case. Oh boy.
I tried to tell myself that it wasn’t that bad. But then Owen dropped the bomb. I was discussing my hair with Nana and Dock at dinner (you know, to let them know that I knew that it looked bad so they didn’t go around thinking that I thought it looked good, and then they would have the dilemma of wondering if they should tell me it wasn’t a good look, or think I have terrible taste in hair…) ANYWAY…Owen mentioned that his classmates had seen my hair and asked him about it. (what are 7-year-old boys discussing my hair for?!?) Owen shrugged his shoulders: “I just said, ‘I don’t know, I guess she forgot to brush it.’”
nice