Take 5 #008

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My boys are in love with “Pants on the ground.” They especially like to change up the lyrics for different situations and subject matters. My favorite adaptation is:

♫ …Boobies on the ground – Boobies on the ground

Lookin like a grandma w/ your boobies on the ground

Pants hiked up – dentures in yo’ mouth

Looking like a grandma w/ your boobies on the ground … ♫

Only my kids…

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While sitting in the ophthalmologist’s office waiting for his appointment, Colby was browsing a catalogue to kill time.

“Why do they put these glasses on hot chicks? ‘Cause you know when a girl gets glasses… she don’t EVEN look this hot.”

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WARNING: May cause SEVERE but TEMPORARY eye injury.

This I read on the dog’s shampoo bottle – as we are bathing him…

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I adore reading, but I have trouble concentrating on useless notices my kids bring in from school. It seems even though they email 99% of notices in this modern era, they just can’t help themselves and must print out gibberish for parents to read. Most of it is indeed garbage; but imagine my plight when the Sasquatch brought in a 12pager. Ah yeah, 12 pages of information that I actually need to read. My brain hurts just thinking about it.

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Ready for spring … just as soon as I lose this 5lbs… again.

The Sasquatch turns 17

Monkey's First Orchestra Concert

The OMS Beginning Orchestra performed Shortnin' Bread, Bridge to MacDonald's, French Folk Song, & Bile 'em Cabbage Down, all in traditional arrangements; and First Scale March.

They did pretty awesome for their first time playing collectively as a whole. It actually sounded like music! I recorded Bridge to MacDonald's for all of you grandparents -but I'm having difficulty uploading the strip. Hopefully I can get it up soon.

This photo was taken prior to the performance while Monkey was warming up.

When You Got It - You got It

Forget baseball, football, and soccer. Forget the chess club, the Lego club, and improv. My boy is into fencing – and he’s a natural. On January 23rd, Colby attended his first fencing tournament with no more than a dozen training sessions under his belt and ranked 5^th in a base pool of 32 for tournament match ups.

The coach has raved about him since the beginning of the year when he first joined the club. Colby’s reflexes are so insanely quick he is fencing against seasoned fencers and winning. So, for all the family who’ve criticized his gaming over the years – b o o y a h - but we love you anyway!

He won his first round 15-10 over Anthony:

And lost 15-12 in the second - to this crazy ninja fella.

He was complemented repeatedly by every judge he came across on his natural fencing skills (They couldn't believe it was his first tournament!), and placed 11^th overall for the tournament – which qualifies him for the CHAMPIONSHIPS! He’s so stoked!!