An Actor's Life

So Bradley and his cousins Connie and Belle attended Drama Camp this week. They had so much fun and really enjoyed being together almost all day for 5 days in a row. They got to write their own skit and perform it. The theme of the week was Fairy Tales.

So, I now present....

Little Red Riding Hood Meets the Three Little Pigs.



The first part is the narrator setting the scene. The whole video is about 2 1/2 minutes.

Whew!

I guess time flies when you're having fun. Or when you start a job that you didn't think was going to take up that much time. I started teaching on line in January through Georgia Virtual School and it kicked my butt. I never realized how hard it would be to balance the kids with working at home. It seemed whenever I got online, that was the time that Matthew needed something. I tried staying up late to work after the kids went to sleep, but I soon learned that I do not make a good zombie.

Oh well, enough complaining. I did enjoy getting to teach again. And I got to teach Physics again. Ahh, the joys of acceleration, electricity, magnetism, light, formulas, calculations.... it was AWESOME to be immersed in something other than Wiggles. Did I just imply that the Wiggles are bad?? No. Not me. It's just that it's fun to have grown up things again.

Brothers

I have a million things I should be doing right now and a bunch of pictures/stories I want to share, but I'm just had to upload this picture. It just makes my heart melt. I took Matthew to Bradley's Valentine party at school. When it was time for me to leave B called M to say goodbye. Luckily I had the camera in my hand and snapped this picture.

I just can't express how much I love these boys. Bradley takes such good care of his little brother and Matthew wants to be just like his big brother.

My Little Scientist

Since Bradley changed schools at the beginning of the year, he rides in with Michael in the mornings. They get breakfast at the high school, eat it in Michael's classroom, then B does homework or watches TV or plays on the computer. Then B sits through almost all of Michael's first period class before he walks over to his school.

Bradley has helped Michael set up labs, get things ready for the day, etc. He's also gotten to watch the high school kids do a few labs. Well today Michael suited B up and let him participate.

Here's B is all his safety gear:
And here he is with the results of his experiment -- DNA! It was a DNA extraction lab and he extracted DNA from wheat germ!

Big Bird

Sure, Big Bird was my nickname in high school, but it is also what is living in my back yard. I've see this huge bird fly by a couple of times before and I was immediately amazed. It is beautiful.

I've been on the lookout for it and I was able to capture him on film yesterday. Now, if I could just figure out what he is. I'm assuming a hawk, but what kind? I'm scared to let Darwin out of the house now. I think he just might want my little Dachsund as a snack. The way he was looking at me in one of the pictures I could almost hear him thinking "I'd never have to hunt again if I could just lift her up!"

UPDATE:

After asking some of my friends on GeorgiaSportbike, I'm pretty sure this is an adolescent red tailed hawk. I can't wait to see him when he grows up!

Here's the Wikipedia link for red tailed hawks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_Hawk

Ula's New Blog

I just got an email from a dear friend, and she's started a new blog too. AND her blog is to go along with her new business! She's sewing Children's clothes and they are beautiful! I don't know why I'm screaming! :-)

I'm just excited for her, I guess.

Now I'm waving wildly to Ula. Hey girl! I've got so many great memories from high school and you're in most of them! As for your clothes, maybe one day you'll sell your stuff on QVC. I'm sure you'd be great! (Psst, Ula, do you get it?) Sorry, folks, just a little inside joke.

Now, here's her link:

The Cherub's Closet

Love ya! BGGJKU BFF!

It snowed AGAIN!

It snowed again and I just can't believe it! We do live in Georgia, right? Oh, don't get me wrong, I love the snow. I just can't believe we've had it twice in four days.

When it snowed on Wednesday, Matthew had a fever. But we still went out in the snow, because, well, hello! It was SNOW! So when it snowed today, Bradley had a fever. And yes, we still went out in it. It was a low fever, so I figured he was fine for a little while.



Of course the first thing we did was make a snowman. My Dad made the bottom, I made the middle, and B made the top.


Grandpa and Bradley


Yes, we had a sled. Mom and Dad bought this for us 2 years ago. I thought they were nuts, but we're glad we had it today.


I think more snow would have made it better, but it was still fun sledding.

The first video is me pulling Matthew -- look for Bradley's sneak attack at the end. The second video is both boys. Listen for Dad's reaction to slipping. WHOA!