Boys Doing Things and Stuff

Lest I leave you with the impression that our life consists of alternating medical procedures with unwanted inappropriate comments, I’ve put together a medley of recent activities. Lordy lord we’re busy, but in a good way.

The boys won many trophies in the TaeKwonDo All-school Grand Championship a couple weeks ago. Admittedly, it’s impossible to NOT win trophies if you go there. But both boys got a couple second place awards, which means they beat out two other kids in that belt/age group/event.

Elias kicked A** and some boards

Isaac kicked many things as well.

Of course, we’ve also been playing hockey.

Watch out Wayne Gretzky.

And taking our dragon for walks on her leash.

Beardina loves her new harness!

Not crazy about the harness, but does love dandelion greens and sunshine.

Getting scary face paintings with scales all down the neck.

Face emerging from cobra's mouth!

Going on awesome trips… like Ben’s dad-lads-granddad Revolutionary War tour in April.

Niagara Falls

Plimouth Plantation

The Old North Bridge

Learning to play the saxophone.

Seriously, Charlie Parker at age 9

The marvelous Mr. Aaron

Building and shooting off rockets.

If only the parachute would deploy!

SpaceX prototype

And harvesting out own red ripe strawberries. Plural (there were two of them last night.)

The bunnies keep getting them first.

After a long day full of action, we tend to feel like this:

I feel that way too, but, you know, I'm the driver.

Now we’re planning a busy summer of trips and camps. I’m trying to make it less insane than last summer, and put in some empty weeks. But at the very least Isaac is doing Lego Robotics camp at the Great Lakes Science Center, and a week of SCUBA diving. Elias is doing space explorer camp and inventors’ camp. We’re going out to my mom’s farm in June to help with an important turtle relocation project, going to Minneapolis for July 4. And most importantly, embracing our Canadian heritage with a big, BIG trip to Nova Scotia to see my aunt Betty, and some whales, and the world’s biggest tides. Just bought the tickets this morning! So excited!

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