spring musical

pretty handsome...am i right? he wanted to wear a tux. said he could use one for when he plays secret agent. a tux and high tops. i might have to consider it.

(he is the little spec in the front row in the white shirt. the program was really cute. you can see it in their faces...the kids just feel so important!)

magic schoolbus

that would be the title to about one third of olivia’s pictures from dc. it looked like they had a blast though. i think my favorite is the ring-ding-ding- (politically incorrect term) umbrella man. apparently he drove all the kids nuts. but really, she had tons of great shots. and had a great time. the tape on the outside of the hotel door is a trick i’ll need to remember. :)

washington dc

olivia was in washington dc these last couple of days. amazing how someone who spends most of her time in her room avoiding us ...can leave such a void in our house when she is gone. can’t wait to hear stories of her trip and see more of her pictures. these were a few she sent on her phone. i know i’m her mom...but i really she think she has a good eye with her shots.

happy sunday

or happy easter.
i think i would have needed to hard boil 3 dozen eggs to try all the color combinations we got this year in our paas packet. does anybody really make spinners out of the circles you punch out? brian and i read a martha stewart magazine in one of the waiting rooms last month. of course...fantastic. each egg a work of art. one of the things she suggested was using electric tape to do the masking. worked on some, not on others. and the layering of the dyes didn’ t seem to work with the dyes we had. and...the kids got bored about 20 minutes in. ah, traditions. the kids celebrated the day by playing ripstick basketball. sam had a bunch of guys over yesterday playing. ill try and get a picture next time they do. as if one or the other wasn’t hard enough!thanks to aunt sheryl and uncle john for having brunch with us and sitting through an impromptu viewing of sherlock holmes. you are good sports!

(and on a side note, summer jumped in and swam in three ponds today. so much for that yummy-frito-puppy smell!)