We need the weekdays to come to give us a break from our weekends!
Schoolhouse Rock: Kevin was extremely disappointed to find out that he did not get a lead role, or supporting role, in this year's musical. Some of the boys that Kevin tried out with did get parts, and Kevin was absolutely convinced that he performed better than them, so, not sure what to tell him. I guess one difference could be that all of the other boys take choir as an elective, and Kevin does not, and the choir teacher is the musical guy. We've suggested that Kevin needs to follow-up and ask "What do I have to do better next year to get the results I would like?"...we'll see if that happens.
Parents Night Out: Mom and Dad went down to Detroit's Fox Theater to see Robin Williams Friday Night. Finding a boy-sitter turned out to be a disaster, so, Friday was the first chance for Kevin to watch the boys for longer than 60-90 minutes. And it went really well; the house is still in one piece, no tattling the next morning that Kevin was mean or the boys were out of control, and, well, maybe Suzanne and I will get out more in the future!
Robin Williams was great.....really glad we spent the money to go and see him.
Christopher: Another very frustrating 3-0 loss in soccer, whereupon the boys in the first quarter decided to forget everything taught to them in practice that week and give up 3 quick goals (Christopher, I've learned, is not a good goalie, and again, gave up these three goals.....will have to work hard to keep him out of goal the rest of the year). The rest of the game was pretty even and the boys started to remember, and put into practice, the positioning concepts I've been teaching them. Suzanne remarked after the game that she thought we should nickname Christopher "Bulldozer"......many of the kids try and go up the outside of the soccer field and beat kids with their speed and cut in near the goal...Christopher prefers the straight at you approach, and it works pretty well. But he's like, well, a bulldozer when he gets going.....
Maybe some video of the soccer game later this week.
Christopher II: He's the only boy that noticed the ads on the billboards, and, arguably, the boy who likes the songs (especially Mamma Mia and Money Money Money) the best, so, Christopher and Mom went to the Wharton Center to watch the Saturday matinee performance of the ABBA classic. Mom and son had a good time, although Christopher was very shy about singing and spent a fair bit of time 'sssssh'-ing Mom, even though there was nobody sitting within 2 or 3 rows of the two of them.
Kitchen: Now that evocative sunlight shines through the nooks and crannies of the kitchen walls, hanging of the wall cabinets has commenced. Hung up the two cabinets on the 'stove' side and started to hang up the two on the 'window' side. Had to adjust the two on the window side a bit due to poor craftsmanship from the not-so-handy craftsman...oh well.
Dino Dash: Probably the last 5k of the year (looks that way at this point), the Dino Dash is run at Michigan State and benefits the museum on campus. Wasn't the most successful of runs for Kevin.....23 minutes comes up on the clock, no Kevin. He finished about 40 seconds later.....cramped up, had a loose shoe, just not a good outing (2 kids from his x-country team that haven't finished ahead of him in a month finished in front of him). Oh well......
Matthew and Christopher did the Kids Mile. Lots of protesting from Christopher about doing the race...this may be the end of the road for signing him up for these, really don't need to force him to do them, even though he does pretty well at them. Matthew, in a very kind move, slowed down and ran with his brother for most of the mile.
Matthew: First Flag Football game of the year. I didn't get to see much of it, since, I was coaching Matthew's soccer team which played at the same time, but, the rotation of players didn't go quite right, and Matthew only had the ball in his hands once.
But, that's all it takes sometimes. At least it made the video editing easy!
Matthew II: Flag Football ends, Matthew trades jerseys and comes over to play the rest of the soccer game. Comes in the middle of the third quarter and we're playing a team coached by one of the parents from indoor soccer; he was pleasantly surprised to learn that Matthew was missing most of the game today and was good-naturedly disappointed to see him run up.
Kitchen II: Spent more time fixing one of the cabinets on the 'window' side....took the other cabinet down from the 'window' side and spent a lot of time installing the modification to try and make the 30" cabinet look like a 39" cabinet from the front. Still have a little work to do on this score, and hope to accomplish that tomorrow and maybe get some pictures of that online this week. We're going to shut off the power and water next weekend and rip out the base cabinets and see just how difficult relocating the electrical and plumbing will be to accommodate our plans.
