January 18, 2012

Snow!

January 16, 2012

No school Monday, so we went to DQ for blizzards.

January 14 and 15, 2012

This weekend we split up. Ellie and I went to Minnesota for a meet, and the boys stayed home for a tournament. It was a pretty successful weekend for everyone. Conor's team took first place. The final game was played at Lincoln High School, and the teams were introduced over the loudspeaker. They did play by play of the game too, although Conor tells me it was just when someone made a basket.

Ellie and I rode up on Saturday with two of her gymnastics friends and their moms. We went to the Mall of America and swam at the hotel. Her meet was Sunday. There were 5 teams in all. One team was from Canada, and had driven 8 hours to get there. When the girls all line up at the beginning of the meet, they asked us to face the flag for the playing of both national anthems. After several attempts at playing the Canadian anthem, their coach finally said "That's okay, we'll sing it". And they did. About 20 girls, ages 8-16, plus 3 coaches, sang the whole thing. I'm pretty sure our team would never be able to do that. And yeah, I cried a bit. I unabashedly admit it.

The Silver team took 2nd place overall. E did pretty well, placing in beam and floor. She fell off the beam once (as did everyone) but stuck a beautiful cartwheel.

January 13, 2012

Sometimes I do such a good job picking out library books no one talks during after school snack. (Except Rowan. He pretty much always talks).

January 12, 2012

The first meet of the season. 3rd on vault, tied for 4th on floor, and 5th overall!

January 11, 2012

Sometimes I am the cool mom. For dinner I had to hollow out a loaf of french bread. I know, I know, I should have made bread crumbs, but as I was tossing it into the trash, I stopped. I then offered it up for bread balls, on the condition that dinner must be eaten as well. Very, very happy kids.

January 10, 2012

I don't think anyone will be suprised to hear that I'm tired of the recorder. Is this how band will be? Because I'm rethinking the whole "you have to play an instrument" thing.