Fall Book Fair
Tonight was Brian’s fall semester book fair! It had a cool knights-and-dragons theme. We picked up everything on his list, plus a few things for Kendall as well. He liked the big standup sign advertising the new Star Wars Rebels series. Not a lot of photos, since I was carrying all of his stuff! Today all the geeky-Internet-buzz was about a Barbie children’s book, where supposedly Barbie was a computer engineer–but she was portrayed as thoroughly incompetent, needing the...
Read MoreDefy Gravity!
Thanks to the generous support of friends and family to fund Brian’s “Rootin’ Tootin'” fundraiser for Root Elementary School, he was able to take a free trip to Defy Gravity for bouncing and a pizza party! He missed out the previous year due to his unfortunate arm injury around Halloween that also prevented him from skating for a few weeks. But this year he would not miss out and would have a BLAST! Although these trampoline places (much like inflatable places) put...
Read MoreRoot Spirit Week
It’s spirit week at Root, and while we aren’t equipped to do all of the activities, the “wear all red” day was a possibility! Brian came down the stairs like this, and while we had to applaud his creativity, we did have to modify the outfit a bit! 😉 Goddard is doing another family wall thing, this time with pumpkins. So, we made ours using some of the Halloween stickers we already had. Pretty cute! At the grocery store, Kendall saw a cute Peppa Pig...
Read MoreRootin’ Tootin’
Tonight was Rootin’ Tootin’, but it was also a Parent Night Out.. We were conflicted about what to do, but, eventually came down on the side of letting Kendall have her pizza party with her friends, Brandon would take Brian to hockey/skating lessons and then a little time at Rootin’ Tootin’, and I would just have the evening to myself to rest. I’m on the mend, but am not up for very much, so it was probably the best thing for us all. The kids had fun at their...
Read MoreBrian’s School Picture (Fall 2014)
Brian’s first grade fall school picture is here! His shirt has a dragon on it, to commemorate how much he’s into dragons this year. 🙂...
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