Turning 40 - here are my 3 "things" last halloween:
The Thing 5 one is really cool - did you make that on a computer? I'm amazed how well it came out if so. The ones I bought at US really faded (the white in the circle flaked off) after the first washing.
I know those of you dealing with Fay really don't want to hear this, but they recently said that since July 11th (6 weeks tomorrow), the Green Bay area has gotten less than 1/10th of an inch of rain. Maybe that explains why I haven't had to cut my grass in two weeks (and why it's turning brown!).
Sorry I haven't been around. Well, I have been reading, but just no time to reply. Got caught up on a bunch of emails with friends and it seems like it's one or the other.
Big news is that Matt made varsity this year for soccer. Yeah, he's a junior, and he should, but he was REALLY stressed that he wouldn't. They announced teams yesterday afternoon. He may not get to play as much as he'd like, but he's excited to be on the varsity team at least!
In the meantime, I'm just struggling with trying to get all 3 boys schedules straightened up for school. They assigned Matt and Stephen to the same Spanish 3 class, which I'm just not comfortable with, especially since Matt hated the teacher, and Stephen loved her (and Stephen will spend the entire class sucking up and showing off and Matt will refuse to participate). Went in today and spent an hour with the counselor and determined that not only is it impossible to change Matt's schedule (hoping we could get him in with the other teacher), but it was also impossible to change Stephen's.
Absolutely NOTHING else that Matt needed in his schedule was offered that hour. He needs gym, but could only take freshman (not cool as a junior) or girls' gym, which I think he might enjoy, but they'd probably frown on! Yes, they segregate kids for gym here.
Anyways, they're both in too many "only offered once" classes - either AP, or things like certain levels of band or choir. SO they're stuck with each other and Matt's just going to have to get over it.
Katie - we also did Typhoon Lagoon in the driving rain after our surfing one day and it was completely empty, but the kids were whining about being cold (of course they'd been in the water for 5 hours straight at that time, but still). Seems like the way to go if the weather's at all warm!
Glad you saved the bunnies. It reminds me of a story when Eric was little. My older two were doing a day camp at the zoo, and one day after we dropped them off, we just stayed for a couple hours. We went over to the (huge) playground they had there and Eric (then about 2), went off to play. He came running back and grabbed me to show me something. I followed him over and underneath one of the climbing structures, there were a whole bunch of baby somethings! We quickly called one security person over who said "Eww, rats!" Now, they looked awfully big to me to be rats, so we waited while they got someone from the zoo staff, who told us they were all baby bunnies (but didn't have the fur yet). They took them off to somewhere better for them in the zoo than the middle of the playground!
Still, you'd think if you worked at the zoo you could tell bunnies from rats!
...just not as often as I used to (2-3 times a day! LOL)
A very busy day/weekend.
