Year 3, May 23rd-24th, 2018: Stuff Happened

I don't remember what happened, let's journal some pictures, shall we? We can blame the memory loss on this sinus infection I've had for 5 days.  Ugh.

The spin off movie about Han Solo from Star Wars came out this week.  It's aptly named Solo and to celebrate, one of my phone games had this picture to solve.

Last Saturday, Prince Harry of England married Meghan, and so I decided to follow the Royals on Instagram like I had been doing on Twitter.  I love this little comparison.  Backstory: my mom remembered when Princess Diana married Price Charles in 1980 because it was the same year my Dad and my Mom were married.  Prince William is my age and I believe Prince Harry is one of my sister's ages.  So, it's kind of fun to keep up with them, and of course, now that we have Canada in our past, we were connected to them a bit more than before.  Plus, my middle is Elisabeth and I think Queen Elizabeth is one awesome lady to do what she does with such dignity and poise and she just keeps on going!  Poor Harry will never see the throne now because it will go to Prince Charles, his dad, and then probably somewhat quickly to Prince William and his now three kids, and THEN to Harry.  There's so much more about it, but, I'll stop there.

Last day of gymnastics for the school year!  I don't know if she will continue in the fall because she wants to try basketball, so this might be her last class forever.  She's loved it, but I would love to not have to drive 25 minutes one way once a week and do something else with our morning.  They did a series of cartwheels, roundoffs, one handed cartwheels, forward rolls, backward rolls in class today.

One handed cartwheels which she's made improvement on, but still falls out of them often.  She's proud that she can finally fit into that leotard that looks like it has a "K" on it, but now she'll probably only wear this time and move on.

You try doing it! A cartwheel is hard enough!

OOOOO, the phone camera caught this one perfectly!

One last time playing with our friends.

Forward rolls with splits!  Very hard to do!

Front walkovers!

Trying to do cartwheels on the extra wide beam.  I never could do it.

Handstands!  She's gone from not being able to do a cartwheel or a handstand to doing them with ease.  Not perfectly, but she can do them!

Infinity gauntlet time!  Avengers: Infinity War just came out in theaters a couple of weeks ago.  It has almost ALL the Marvel comic book movie characters so far and is the first part of a 2 part story.  I heard that the end is kind of shocking and definitely leaves you hanging until the 2nd one comes out in 2 years.

Up, up, and over!

Kips and flips over the barre!

I used to get so dizzy from these!

Practicing a backward roll or backward walkover by rolling backwards on the mat.

Can't see much, but Miss Christy took down the tumble track and added more beams.

Time to smash into our friends using their toy.  The infinity gauntlet doesn't belong to us.

Just another trip to see Daddy in the office becasue we miss him.  Abishai put the winter boots on himself and I was going to grab his sandals and forgot.  He loves wearing these boots!

Sitting in the car for an hour makes you go all crazy, so we must run!

Playing hide and go seek in Daddy's office.  He did count for several numbers in a row.

#thisismay #thisisindy #indy500 #racetime Somebody spray painted their lawn has a checkered flag! Indianapolis is very proud of their moment in the spotlight every May with the greatest spectacle in racing (or sports in general).  With one of the largest crowds ever in any sport, and a huge 2.5 mile track, and for it being around for over 100 years, it is something to be proud of.  It brings in a ton of outside money and ushers in summer.  We literally have gone from 60 degrees to 90 in 30 days time.  Someday I'll go the track for race day itself.  I miss the way they used to do the children's days, but I'll take them again at some point.  I'd love to go for a practice day again, too.  There's the mini marathon at the beginning of the month and the big memorial day parade on the Saturday before the race.  And there's the grand prix road course race two weeks prior to the Indy 500.  2.5 miles, 250 laps, 500 miles total at 230 miles per hour in a little racing car with 32 other cars going the same speed.  There's definitely much less deaths now but it's still a very high risk sport.  And we love it.

Library time!  We went on Thursday because Abishai was asking to go see the tractor.  Twice a month on Thursday afternoons during the school year they have a homeschool class, so I'm thinking we might make Thursday afternoons our library day.  Many of our homeschool friends from the church go to the class.  In fact, we saw one of them this time!  Abishai took money from his passengers and pretended to be their taxi.

I think this is the only place the kids have seen a landline telephone!  But you get to listen to a story being read to you.  Abishai was all over the place because he was tired and even tried to race the stroller up and down the rows of shelves in the children's section.  We exited quickly. 

I think he's getting a little big for that chair and computer! He was playing a game called "The World of Goo," an architecture game.  Hm,....

Justin was outside watering trees when he saw a little fluffy birdie on the neighbor's driveway.  Then he saw the mama bird fly down and feed it a worm, and they hopped away.  We found remnants of the nest, which looks like it had been made with Socks hair.  It's one reason I like to have Socks brushed outside because I know that the birds can use that soft fur to line their nests.  How cool that Justin got to see some nature in action!

Lots of bird feathers and fur!  We also have lots of bunnies and squirrels, despite Socks being in the backyard and chasing them.  In fact, the gate was left open twice this week and twice we had to go searching for him because he saw critters across the street.  The bunnies are HUGE, like 20lbs and 18-24 inches long, bigger than a newborn.  Huge cottontails, too.  Socks can't wait to eat them!  He knows they hide in the brush pile and under the shed and can see them before I do.  They are pretty active right before I let Socks out in the morning, so he sees them and shoots out the door after I have barely opened it.  Poor bunnies.

I was lazy and didn't cut up their mini peppers, so Justin and Keturah made them stand up in the middle of their salad bowls and then drizzled their toppings on them.  Oi!  That just means they wasted some dressing on the top on the part they won't eat AND their hands will get messy trying to hold the slippery thing.  Oh well.  And as soon as Keturah stops picking and her boo boo heals, we need to get protraits done!  First Abishai had a nasty boo boo on his face, and now Keturah.  We failed to get Abishai's 2 yr old pictures done, and now he'll be almost 3 1/2 before we get three's done.  Ugh!

I present to you: The Incredible Hulk!  He climbs onto the the truck with ease, over the tailgate, and then quickly scrambles up on the roof.  He jumps on the roof and then jumps down to the tool box and then into the truck bed.  He does this will a lot of grunting and "I am Hulk! Roar!" and gusto. 

Boom!

Ready to jump into the truck bed.