Monday, September 17, 2007
Weekend Recap
Friday night was Driveway movie night. The featured film: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (with Johnny Depp). We had great fall weather and very strong attendance. I think we had close to 20 kids. I didn’t remember the movie very well, so it was like watching it for the first time again. By the end of the movie we were all huddled in blankets. Maybe we should start putting on a big pot of hot chocolate…
Pierce had his second game last Saturday. The weather was not cooperative. He played on a cold rainy morning. Pierce actually played much better this time. He was far more involved, got his feet on the ball, and actually made a few plays. Towards the second half of the game he was back to his normal self, but I think that will improve over time. Pierce didn’t make his practice last week –we had “Father-figure and child pizza night” at his school. The school was looking for volunteer Dad’s to come in for one day during the school year. I’m scheduled to attend the day before Pierce’s birthday.
Saturday afternoon the weather cleared and the family went to Powell Gardens for their dinosaur exhibits. Our new neighbors also went (we caravanned). The exhibit featured life-size dinosaurs in “native” environments. We saw dinosaurs laying eggs, stealing eggs, running across logs, standing in meadows,.. It was very nicely done and everyone enjoyed it.
Saturday evening was dinner with Mike and Lizz. They seem to be falling into their parent roles quite nicely. Mike had done sole-parent duty the prior evening so that Lizz could catch up on sleep. It sounds like the twins took the opportunity to rake him over the coals. As always, Pierce and Anna fawned over the babies. Pierce sang a lullaby (Silver is the moonlight) to them prior to dinner. Anna made sure that all important toys were placed on their chests (we keeping asking her not to). Anna must have been pretty wiped out from the day, immediately after dinner she fell asleep on their couch. Pierce and Mike went downstairs to play trains. Mike always pulls out the best stuff to show to Pierce. Last night’s collection included several very cool steam engines as well as some engines Mike’s father had made several years ago.
Sunday was catch up day, with me mowing the lawn and Nora getting the linens changed out. Pierce has been enamored of the neighbors’ kick scooters for awhile, and I promised him that we’d get him one over the weekend. It took a couple of tries, the first one I bought was too small (he would have outgrown it by Spring). You can only imagine how excited he was. He spent most of the late afternoon tooling up and down the street with several of his friends. Of course, he had a couple of pretty significant wipeouts. He has a scraped toe and knee to show for them, but it didn’t seem to slow him down. Anna also got out her 3-wheel scooter and participated (it was very cute). She’s starting to become proficient with it. She went with Pierce and me to buy Pierce’s scooter and I told her that when she was ready for her own 2-wheel scooter I’d be happy to buy it for her. She insisted that she “loved” her Barbie scooter and was going to keep it until she is an adult.
We had some rain pass through on Sunday about 5 minutes in to the start of Anna’s soccer practice. The kids had just started to get a good groove going when we all had to run to our cars to get out of the downpour. I think all of us were pretty disappointed –but there’s always next week.
Nora introduced a new entrée into our growing list of meal options: sloppy joes. Surprisingly, both Pierce and Anna loved them (Nora and I are also pretty fond of them too). I think each kid ate 1 and a half “joes”. Nora was beaming from ear-to-ear.
We wound up the night with part of a documentary we’d gotten from the library, James Cameron’s Ghosts of the Abyss. It’s a very cool documentary about the Titanic. We only made it half way through before we had to stop for bed. But we enjoyed it. We knew Anna was tired, because she kept pestering us with silly questions, but she seemed to like it more than most of the Titanic documentaries we’ve watched. After turning it off, she and I spent a couple of minute’s leg wrestling. She needs to get a little bigger before she’s really competitive. We switched over to spider wrestling, with Pierce participating too.
-Eric (Dad)
Pierce had his second game last Saturday. The weather was not cooperative. He played on a cold rainy morning. Pierce actually played much better this time. He was far more involved, got his feet on the ball, and actually made a few plays. Towards the second half of the game he was back to his normal self, but I think that will improve over time. Pierce didn’t make his practice last week –we had “Father-figure and child pizza night” at his school. The school was looking for volunteer Dad’s to come in for one day during the school year. I’m scheduled to attend the day before Pierce’s birthday.
Saturday afternoon the weather cleared and the family went to Powell Gardens for their dinosaur exhibits. Our new neighbors also went (we caravanned). The exhibit featured life-size dinosaurs in “native” environments. We saw dinosaurs laying eggs, stealing eggs, running across logs, standing in meadows,.. It was very nicely done and everyone enjoyed it.
Saturday evening was dinner with Mike and Lizz. They seem to be falling into their parent roles quite nicely. Mike had done sole-parent duty the prior evening so that Lizz could catch up on sleep. It sounds like the twins took the opportunity to rake him over the coals. As always, Pierce and Anna fawned over the babies. Pierce sang a lullaby (Silver is the moonlight) to them prior to dinner. Anna made sure that all important toys were placed on their chests (we keeping asking her not to). Anna must have been pretty wiped out from the day, immediately after dinner she fell asleep on their couch. Pierce and Mike went downstairs to play trains. Mike always pulls out the best stuff to show to Pierce. Last night’s collection included several very cool steam engines as well as some engines Mike’s father had made several years ago.
Sunday was catch up day, with me mowing the lawn and Nora getting the linens changed out. Pierce has been enamored of the neighbors’ kick scooters for awhile, and I promised him that we’d get him one over the weekend. It took a couple of tries, the first one I bought was too small (he would have outgrown it by Spring). You can only imagine how excited he was. He spent most of the late afternoon tooling up and down the street with several of his friends. Of course, he had a couple of pretty significant wipeouts. He has a scraped toe and knee to show for them, but it didn’t seem to slow him down. Anna also got out her 3-wheel scooter and participated (it was very cute). She’s starting to become proficient with it. She went with Pierce and me to buy Pierce’s scooter and I told her that when she was ready for her own 2-wheel scooter I’d be happy to buy it for her. She insisted that she “loved” her Barbie scooter and was going to keep it until she is an adult.
We had some rain pass through on Sunday about 5 minutes in to the start of Anna’s soccer practice. The kids had just started to get a good groove going when we all had to run to our cars to get out of the downpour. I think all of us were pretty disappointed –but there’s always next week.
Nora introduced a new entrée into our growing list of meal options: sloppy joes. Surprisingly, both Pierce and Anna loved them (Nora and I are also pretty fond of them too). I think each kid ate 1 and a half “joes”. Nora was beaming from ear-to-ear.
We wound up the night with part of a documentary we’d gotten from the library, James Cameron’s Ghosts of the Abyss. It’s a very cool documentary about the Titanic. We only made it half way through before we had to stop for bed. But we enjoyed it. We knew Anna was tired, because she kept pestering us with silly questions, but she seemed to like it more than most of the Titanic documentaries we’ve watched. After turning it off, she and I spent a couple of minute’s leg wrestling. She needs to get a little bigger before she’s really competitive. We switched over to spider wrestling, with Pierce participating too.
-Eric (Dad)
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