Friday Fun Part II

The boys get to have 'movie night' on Fridays, which is always a lot of fun.

This week, Mikey chose "The Wizard of Oz" as his movie.  I don't think any of them had seen it before, and it was so much fun watching it with them!  I've seen it oh around 50 times probably, but it's still great.  And the boys loved it, even though there are no 'modern' special effects.  A good story and great acting are timeless.

They really loved hearing about how I starred as the Wicked Witch of the West in our 9th grade drama class production of TWOZ.  Of course, I had to do my "I'll get you, my pretty" for them, still sounded Broadway worthy, I must say.

Friday Fun!

I had the boys on Friday afternoon (usually my day off, but they all had dentist appts and other stuff going on, so I lent Mom a hand).    We went to the park while RJ was practicing with his cross-country team.

Liam practicing his fireman's pole slide.

Poor Alex had to have 4 top teeth pulled!  But he was very brave and now has the adorable lisp.

Here he is with his happy yet toothless smile.

Random Pictures from This Week

Still don't have the fair photos to show y'all, so here are some pretty bad ones from my phone (but cute subjects!)

Mikey all ready for school with his new Wall-E lunchbox.  Of course, he is not IN school yet, but don't tell him that.

Liam going for the 'brainiac' look with his glasses (only time he's worn them so far this year).  His smile just kills me every time.

Mikey and Liam at the fair on one of the rides.  Mike was VERY serious when riding the motorcycles, he did not want to miss a jump and do a face plant ;-)

Liam on the choo choo train.  As the only passenger on this ride, he got to be the engineer, conductor, and all the passengers. 

And here's Michael at Borders.  We stopped to kill some time while the brothers were in tae kwando and he made a beeline to the action figure section (which I didn't even know existed in Borders).  He is working on his potty training and tried to talk me into a Speed Racer set.  Not till you are pooping on the pot all the time Mister!

OMG We Are Armed!

Yikes!  The boys got their Nunchucks at Taekwando yesterday!  Jebus help us!

Another Thing I'm Never Going to Knit

A Swiffer Cover. god knows I don't use the store bought ones either.

SOTSIII Progress

Still knitting away on my "Secret of the Stole III" mystery knit-along.  I think the 'snowflakes' are looking more like blossoms now.  

The Big News on the Fair

Pia has all the pix on her camera so they will come later, but I can reveal that:

1. I won a blue ribbon for my shawl!  I didn't get disqualified for 'machine knitting'!  I'm pretty happy with the blue ribbon, next year I'll know lace + beads is the winning combo lol.

2. Liam won the grand prize (BIG blue ribbon) for his pickled onions in the Youth canning division, and I think everything else he entered won blue ribbons (green tomatoes, dilly beans, his "self portrait" of his eye, and his vacation memory jar.  Alex won red and blue ribbons for his canned goods (peach chutney and pickled garlic, fresh produce (green tomatoes), his Whidbey Island photo:  and his Vacation Memory Jar.

RJ also won red and blue ribbons for his canned goods (dilly beans and dill carrots), green tomatoes, and his Vacation Memory Jar.

Lots of excitement finding our entries and seeing how well we did!  We are all very proud!

Of course, we spent way too much time and money on the rides (luckily, the boys were happy to stay in the little kids' rides area this year, though that won't last.  The twins barely fit in some of the rides).  After that, we had to hurry through the exhibits so we didn't get to see everything.  Might have to go back... Also we tried to talk the boys into 'mutton bustin', where kids get to ride a bucking sheep for a mere $10.00.  They were too smart for us and would have nothing to do with it.