Piano

Jack was pretty upset when he first learned he would be taking piano lessons over the summer. He tried to convince us that he was on vacation from school so he should be on vacation from piano as well. No dice.

 I took this picture and Jack whipped around to tell me to stop bothering him, he was working with Jeffson, Moooooom.

Kinder Jumpstart

Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you Wyatt. Kinder Extroadinaire!

The Kinder teachers offers a little week long preview class for incoming Kinders. It is a chance for them to learn their way around the building, what happens and is expected of them in the classroom as well as a chance to meet some of their classmates.

I couldn't help myself from peeking in through the classroom window. Whey I showed Wy this picture, he got fairly upset and asked me why I was sneaking on him.

On the way home I asked Wyatt how his first day of Kinder Jumpstart had gone. He thought for a moment and said "Well...I didn't get in trouble?"

Little Director

The boys love to come to work with me on the weekends and help run the shows. They like to hit the go buttons a little hard which makes me worry about double bumping light and sound cues. This show has body mics, so I had the boys turn mics on and off.

Wyatt always asks if can help me direct. I keep telling him I am the stage manager but he keeps asking to help me direct.

No More Bad Guys

Wyatt has his very own multi-tool. This magnifying glass (or as Wy calls it 'a magniFLYING' glass) can be used to

1. Play Magniflying glass tennis: In this game you use the magniflying glass as a tennis racket. You use a hacki-sack as the tennis ball. The twist is that you play the game like ping pong. Unfortunately you don't get much ping out of the hacki-sacks.

2. You can use a magniflying glass to play balloon catch. This is a game where you have to try to catch a balloon by letting it land and stay on your magniflying glass.

3. You can also use a magniflying glass to take out the bad guys. In this usage, you simply take the bad guys and hit them a few times with the magniflying glass then you throw it at them and voila! No more bad guys. I am wondering if we can get a deal with Billy Mays' company? We could produce a few infomercials. Slap an "as seen on TV" sticker on the package when we take it to stores - I bet we could make some money here. I mean look at that kid. If I were a bad guy, I wouldn't mess with that kid.

Aw Snap!

The snaps were fun for about 5 minutes. Then they wanted us to pull out rockets. Uh, right.

Champagne poppers!

Overland Park has a nice firewords display not far from the house. John hooked us up perfectly with a great parking spot and view of the fireworks. During the display Wyatt was singing "You spin me ride around, baby, ride around. Like a wreker baby, ride around, uh-huh." I tried to tell him the words to the song and to explain a record but he wasn't having it.

And during the display Wyatt made heart signs at the fireworks. He loved them.

Too Darn Hot

A friend of mine runs the Tropical Sno in Martin City. I hauled the boys out there last Monday for a little beat the heat treat.

Jack ordered up the Birthday Cake flavor while Wyatt went in for a Tutti Fruitti. I partook of the Pina Colada and imagined I was on a tropical beach. Although the birthday cake flavor was spot on, I think Jack was disappointed that his shaved ice did not come in a crazy tutti fruitti red or off the wall yellow pina colada. Birthday cake is just Plain Jane white. He insists he will get the Root Beer float next time. I'm not sure how he will like brown ice, but Root Beer it is.