Sun, 26 Apr 2009
Bryan runs trackBryan decided to join the track team this semester. It takes up an enormous amount of his time. Sometimes he has two or three meets a week and sometimes only one. Because my schedule has been so busy, I have only been able to make it to one meet up until now. At that one, Melody and Thomas and I huddled in the bleachers, freezing to death, before we found out that we'd arrived just after Bryan's second event anyway. So the only purpose in going was to give Bryan an early ride home.
Yesterday, Melody and I got to attend another meet. I'd been looking forward to it because the weather was supposed to warm up and so it would be a nice Saturday outside. Well, it was HOT. It was fun to watch Bryan run, but we were really tired when we got home.Oh, if you can't find Bryan in the pictures below, just look for the glaring farmer's tan, that's what we did.
To celebrate that it has finally warmed up, we took our first family bike ride of the season on Friday. We all rode to the park for a picnic dinner. Hopefully, we'll have a little more nice weather and it won't get too unbearably hot too soon.
Fri, 17 Apr 2009
Living MuseumA fourth grade tradition at Hawthorn is to do Living Museum. The kids research a famous person and write a biography on them. Then they "become" that person. When visitors to the museum come through they push a button and the students recite their memorized piece about the famous person. Last night, Thomas let me know that today was Living Museum. So today he became Brian Jaques, on eof his favorite authors. BJ is old and bald with a gray beard, so we cut Thomas' hair short. Here are the before and after pix.
Then add an English-style hat, and some tweed.
Add a beard and here Thomas is at school today. He did a great job on his presentation also.
Aren't school projects grand?
Easter
I've been too busy to post, with not much to write about anyway, but have been doing a few things besides school these days. First of all, I managed to sew Melody an Easter dress.
Then doing that reminded Melody and I that we had material bought last summer that we hadn't finished. So we sewed a skirt for Melody and then last Saturday when I was at the hospital all day, she made the shirt. I was proud of her because she did almost the whole thing by herself. When I came home, we had a couple small steps to finish. Anyway, here it is.
I don't think that I like to sew like I used to, but it is fun to do with Melody.
We also celebrated Easter by eating ham and potatoes. The Easter bunny hid some baskets and eggs in our basement even though the kids are way too old for such nonsense.
Jan Dill Hall St. Peters, Missouri
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