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Maddie continues to really enjoy piano. Last weekend she had a chance to show off her progress at a recital. At the end of the recital Maddie’s teacher Meghann gave each student a flower and cookie cutter shaped like a note. The flower matched Maddie’s dress which just goes to show how Maddie and Meghann are totally in synch.
Plus, there were chocolate chip cookies! Jake was happy…
Here is a video of Maddie playing her two songs.
The iris have bloomed, the kids are blooming and so it goes. I was worried this year we wouldn’t have a good day for shooting before the iris left us, but Sunday was perfect… Check out the post from last year.
This past weekend we whooped it up with our new niece Grace–my sister Jen’s daughter. She was adopted in November and a little camera shy, but you can see she’s getting the hang of having an Uncle follow her around like she’s the President of the United States. Maybe she’s taking after her goofy Dad. She was baptised this weekend (thus the pretty dress).
We also gathered to celebrate my Grandmother’s 90th birthday! Grandma Gayle continues to amaze and inspire us, including getting on a plane to spend the weekend with this rambunctious crew. Picture of Grandma and Dad at the end of this set. A more elaborate set of the pictures from the weekend can be found here.
Every year a Maddie’s school has a contest where the kids draw pictures of bird houses. Then a local artist makes a birdhouse to match the picture–one for each grade. These birdhouses hang from the ceiling of the library. This year Maddie’s picture was selected!
Maddie is holding a picture of her drawing and the finished birdhouse and the second picture is the actual birdhouse hanging in the library. Maddie is very proud to have her idea made into a real birdhouse!
Jacob has been taking a little kid theater class taught by our friend Phoebe. He has just loved going “Stage Coach” which is the name of the program. We drop him off and other than hearing from Phoebe that he’s enjoying himself, well you don’t have much of a sense of what goes on. But unlike pre-school, a theater program has a performance.
Wizard of Oz Lite, performed by 4-6 year-olds was a hoot. Jacob was cast (by lottery) as Dorothy’s Uncle Henry and later in the show as a munchkin. (Sadly there were no flying monkeys.) As Uncle Henry Jacob had the line, “I don’t like the look of that sky at all.” We are so proud of him for already playing the old man who foreshadows the weather event…
The video below tells the story best in just 2 minutes and 30 seconds. He says his line, he gets distracted and shadow boxes the set, he dances and sings, the Fairy Princess hits him with her wand and finally…he drops from pure exhaustion during the curtain call. You think that’d take more than two minutes and in fact it did but the edited version gets you there quicker.
Jacob’s Play from Jim Bernard on Vimeo.
Spring has sprung and we’ve gone garden crazy. Planters, peas, sweeping up the mess…those are dirty kids!
One of my favorite things in the world is the coffee shop/bike shop by my office called one-on-one. Great soup, great coffee, fun people and once a year they do a big poster event where all the cool art kids make bike themed posters. It’s called ArtCrank and I always try to pick up something fun for the kids.
Maddie’s poster this year is a cute one by an artist named Kelly Munson. You can check out the poster up close at her site here or you can see it in Maddie’s room below. Also, Maddie did a tribute to the poster which I think captures just how much girls love their bikes. Which is a lot.
We spent a recent weekend in Duluth doing all the touristy things we could manage. Grandma’s for lunch, walk on the beach, watch the big ships come in, aquarium, pie, swimming in the hotel pool. My favorite was the big ships–the first ocean vessels came through Duluth while we were there. Very cool. Very big.
Most of the time we are serious. Then, sometimes, we play….
What Suz Read B-Squad Softball