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Owen didn’t run the ball quite as often this week, but when he did, he was good for at least five yards. Much of the time when Owen runs the ball, he’s dragging a large number of the other team’s players with him (see photo).
The team is … Read the rest⇒
FINALLY, the first day of school.
(This is posted late, because Molly, Spartan and I had a long nap to celebrate no one else being in the house.)
Jack (6th grade), Owen (4th grade), Fiona (K) Read the rest⇒
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Owen had his first football game of the season today. The team had played the week before, but Owen missed the game because of the wedding. It was the team’s second win and they really looked great, beating the Greenjackets 18-6.
Owen played four positions — fullback, outside linebacker, … Read the rest⇒
Kevin left Lizzie and Mike wedding celebration after the ceremony and before the reception to go coach his Jr. PeeWee team. As Owen was an important member of the wedding party, he missed the game.
The Lions won without Owen, however, beating Lenape Valley 20-0.
Below is the report Kevin … Read the rest⇒
Wonderful wedding. Beautiful location. Fabulous people. Full write-up later. For now, click here to see the photos.
We all went on Owen’s birthday camping trip this year (some of the early years are here and here).
One of this year’s highlights was a paintball session. “Unfortunately,” Fiona and I couldn’t go because 10 was the minimum age. For once, it didn’t rain during the campout, although … Read the rest⇒
Owen had a great fencing tournament … but his run was stalled before the semis when he ran into a kid almost four years older and about 14″ taller!! Despite that, he won the first bout of the elimination round (there are three bouts in an elimination match), then … Read the rest⇒
Fiona enjoys the ride down from the top of the wall
Fiona had a great time Saturday at her classmate’s birthday party at the Doylestown Rock Gym. As usual, she was fearless and shot right up the wall.
She seemed to really like working her way up the wall using … Read the rest⇒
Owen went to his first fencing tournament that wasn’t an in-house BCAF competition. We went down to Philly so he could fence in a youth foil tournament for kids born 1999-2002 (how that is U10, I don’t really know, but there’s a lot about fencing that we don’t get … Read the rest⇒
Owen’s playing rec baseball for Solebury this year, in the 10-11 division. His team is the Dodgers and is coached by Kevin. It’s a great group of boys and they’re learning a lot of baseball.
Owen has been awesome at catcher and has logged some innings pitching (a first for … Read the rest⇒
Jack and Owen have qualified for the MAWA Regional Tournament every year they’ve entered. That’s four years for Jack and three for Owen. Jack’s first qualification was in 2006 and his most recent was last weekend (we took 2009 off). Every time, they’ve either qualified in first place or second.… Read the rest⇒
“Good Dancing Restores The Community To Wholeness”
(African proverb)
The third grade at Germantown Academy has been studying Africa since they returned from Christmas vacation. Among the topics they’ve studied are masks, stories, food, culture, geography, music; but, mostly importantly, they studied DANCE.
The students have been working each week … Read the rest⇒
Owen placed third in his first “real” (electric, not dry) foil tournament Sunday. He was amazing and the best thing was that he got exponentially better as the day went on.
The tournament was supposed to have two groups, 10 and under (Owen is nine) and … Read the rest⇒
Since I’m never going to have time to blog about any of these events individually, I put them all together. I put captions under most of the photos to explain them. There’s even a bizarr-o photo in the collection!
Selection of photos from December.
Owen and Fiona are touching and smiling and NOT fighting. (Photo taken in Philly before the Nutcracker ballet. More to follow later.)
