Here are some pictures of the boys.  I am supposed to be cleaning our office space but instead I am trying to figure out the photo software on our laptop and it is not going that great.  I will need to do some more information gathering in order to make this work for me.  I miss my rudimentary program on our PC.

 Oscar had an interesting hockey game yesterday.  They played against kids that were almost twice their size and got beaten soundly and goodly.  He took it well.  He stayed back by the goal and hung out there for a good part of the game.  He saw a lot of action because the other team was scoring with or without him in front of their net.

Alban is off to school today with a barrette in his hair.  I need to get both of them in for a hair cut soon.

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Happy, happy Oscar
Happy, Happy, Happy Oscar
In the leaves
Alban on skates
Down but not out

Day Six and I am two days behind

I sat up in bed last night realizing that I had forgotten to post yesterday and I tried to get out of my nice warm bed to come downstairs to the land of cold floors but I just couldn’t do it.  Oh, well.  What will be will be.

Yesterday afternoon Oscar and I participated in “Art Mondays” with Leslie, Finn, Lucas and Walker.  We worked on making traditional Mexican or Japanese masks.  It was a great lesson in art in the sense that the boys will have at least two Mondays of mask making.  Art, we told them, does not always happen in one sitting; it may take a life-time, two days, two years, or two hours … you never know.

The boys chose their masks and traced the outline and other features they wanted on the mask onto paper that will be taken to Kinkos and put onto very sturdy cardstock.  Then we will cut them out and paint or color them in and have some spectacular masks.  I will put photos up of the boys decked out in their finished product.

Alban has his first learn-to-skate class today at 10:30 a.m., or as he refers to it he has “ice time.”  He is so excited and I am anxious to get him out there and moving around on the ice.  He has such a low center of gravity he should be able to catch on very quickly.  That, and he is one focused kid when it comes to skating.  More than anything he wants to be like his brother and play hockey.  I will keep him on that ice through every season hoping that he will become an amazing skater so when he does face other kids on the hockey rink he will be able to out fox them so he doesn’t get crushed due to his size.

Off to school, playgroup, skating lessons, volunteering at the preschool and grocery shopping today.  We are busy and very, very happy.