Woohoo! I'm so proud of Keller and Dave for their awesome job today at their adventure race. They were given two maps and two hours, and had to find twenty different checkpoints in a large county park. The race organizer said at the beginning that no one should expect to find all of the checkpoints, and that they needed to remember the time limit so they could get back and present their 'passports' indicating which ones they had been able to find. Keller and Dave found all 20, and finished in 1 hour and 37 minutes! They won first place for their division, and we're waiting to see the final tabulations to see how they ranked overall (there were about 35 parent-child teams in the competition). Way to go guys!!
(The Cheering Section)
In other news . . .
Marley got her second set of ear tubes on Tuesday. Other than the recovery room experience (identical to last time when I felt like I was holding that chic from Poltergeist), it was uneventful. They were able to place larger tubes this time, so hopefully we won't have any more mysterious disappearances on that front. She is a card carrying member of the Terrible Two's Club now. Testing Mommy's patience at every turn, but usually doing it with an irresistible grin on her face.
Casey and Dave went on a big adventure yesterday--bike riding and geocaching with no other kids and no mom in tow. He really soaks up any special attention he can get. As a fellow middle child, I know what he's going through. He loves spending time with me one-on-one, packs picnics for us to take to the playground, gives me really sloppy kisses. But there's the other side of Casey, too. His speech teacher left the session early last week because Casey was rolling his eyes at her like a teenager and she just wasn't having any of that. He's hard to describe. He's just Casey.
I wrote an article for our community newspaper (circulation over 3,000) and it was published this month. It was about fossil-hunting on the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. The kids and I did quite a lot of 'research' on the topic this summer, and I wanted to share our pointers with other families in the neighborhood. I'm hoping to be a regular contributor to the paper. My dream of travelling the world, photographing and writing about things that need more attention from the Western world will be delayed until my kids are grown. . . but I need to start somewhere. I don't think National Geographic is going to bring me on board yet!!
Juno continues to work on her girlish figure. She's lost about 7-8 pounds since we got her in mid-June. She looks svelte even. Unfortunately, it makes her weird unicorn bump on top of her head more prominent, but hey, we are an imperfect crew.
Other than all of that, we've been really enjoying the gorgeous weather. Lots of backyard football!
1 comment:
The race sounds like it was quite an adventure! very Cool, you guys make us look like total slackers : )
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