i’m pretty excited about a number of recent thrift store/consignment sale finds. bear with me. or is it bare? whatever. i scored this bumblebee (minus a hand) at a consignment sale for $2. ike was thrilled. it makes noises and sings the transformers theme song. i knew the missing hand wouldn’t be an issue since […]
isaac
Class Star
Ike is the class star today. he gets special jobs, does a little show and tell and, well, I’m not really sure what else. But he was excited about it. And he insisted on wearing this shirt for his big day. 🙂 And he took that little robot toy on the floor next to him […]
soccer debut
it’s the moment i’ve waited for all my life. well, since my sports “career” ended. in 1999. ouch. isaac had his first soccer practice last night. it’s not even really practice. and they don’t actually play games. it’s really just a bunch of soccer fun with secret skill development worked in. he had a great […]
great wolf lodge getaway
on wednesday night, derek surprised me and the lid kids with a getaway to great wolf lodge in concord (charlotte). i was quite nervous at first, since isaac barely likes the pool. or, hates the pool. same thing. and anna is still quite small for water slides and the like. but, we had some backup […]
living room campout
A while back, we set up the tent in the living room in an attempt to check off an item on our summer to-do list. Isaac was excited. He made popcorn with his dad. And we set up camp to watch a movie (rio). After the movie, there was a lot of flopping, flipping and […]
first day of school
Yesterday was isaacs first day back to school. It was only for 1/2 an hour to get acclimated and learn some rules and tour the room, but we still took pictures and put on the backpack and pretended it was fer realz. Tomorrow he goes for a full 5 hours!!!
when jake was here.
after our trip to ny, as i previously mentioned, jake paine made his way back to the nc with us. jake was glad to join in on our summer to do list… the making of milkshakes… isaac wasn’t sold, but played along. they both played a lot of mariokart. a lot. jake handed down his […]
m.i.a.
wow. it’s been awhile since my last entry. sorry. i have no great excuse. after our trip to ny, jake returned with us. he was here for two weeks. we had a lot of fun. he and isaac played hours upon hours of video games. during gaming breaks, they wrestled. or played transformers. jake is […]
batavia trip randomness
here are some random shots of our last few days in ny. shucking corn. eating raw corn. post swim boat ride. we went to “friday night in the square”… the square being jackson square (which i never knew existed – how is that possible?). the event was live music. the night’s theme: italian and latin!! […]
brown’s berry patch
shortly after awakening this morning, i determined that i was taking the lidkids on an adventure. as soon as they woke up, i dressed them and packed and we headed to brown’s berry patch, about 45 minutes north. just shy of lake ontario. we mostly played. we picked zero berries. we didn’t even buy any […]