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Old 06-04-2009, 02:35 AM   #151
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Just a random thought....

After Sheldon posted in the "pictures of your offspring" thread ...

please, no.

Not here.
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Old 06-04-2009, 09:54 AM   #152
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Miss Dallas and Young Master Dallas both auditioned for a local youth orchestra on Saturday. Last night we learned by email that they both got in.

It was almost a shoe-in for Miss Dallas, even though she's mentally checking out of almost everything requiring effort as the school year ends. There are very few orchestras at this level that don't need every competent cellist they can get their hands on.

As a trumpet player, and considerably younger (going into 5th grade) than most of the kids in the orchestra (8th-9th for the most part), Young Master Dallas was much more doubtful. He's very good, but just from a numbers standpoint they were unlikely to be looking for more than one or at most two new trumpets.
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Old 06-04-2009, 10:04 AM   #153
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The girl has developed a new art technique:

1) Find a wet patch on the back porch where the water hose leaks;
2) rub large-sized sidewalk chalk into the wet area to create a highly-pigmented paste (looks like oil pastels);
3) place your tiny, cute hands in the paste and then make little colorful handprints all over stuff in the backyard.

I think this is pretty creative for a 2 year-old kid to have come up with completely on her own.
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Old 06-04-2009, 11:31 AM   #154
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That IS very creative, Flint!
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Old 06-04-2009, 04:27 PM   #155
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Love it Flint!

And woo hoo Dallas juniors!

What about your littel cheerleader, Juni?

Princess OTR "graduates" from Kindergarten tomorrow - we got the letter last week confirming she will be in the "gifted" classes for First Grade. Yes, I am bragging.
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Old 06-04-2009, 04:32 PM   #156
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Yeah what happ with iddy biddy cheer leader?
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Old 06-04-2009, 04:42 PM   #157
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Cool stuff guys!
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Old 06-04-2009, 08:13 PM   #158
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She's not itty bitty -- she is taller than me!

And...she made the squad! Yippee!

That means...um, another $350 added to the pay-to-play costs. But that's a lot cheaper than what the private gym charged for the all-star squad last year, so I'm not complaining. I don't have to buy her uniform or warm-ups, they're borrowed from the school. I think the only expense besides pay-to-play is the shoes ($70 for competition shoes, $40 for the sidelines shoes, yes, of course they must use different ones) and travel expenses for all these competitions, some out of state. Fun!

It also means NO EYE GLITTER! (whew!)
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Old 06-04-2009, 08:14 PM   #159
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Oh huge congrats to the new all-star!
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Old 06-09-2009, 10:54 AM   #160
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It went way too fast...

Name:  Graduation 2.bmp
Views: 190
Size:  118.3 KB
Kindergarten Graduation! Woot Woot!
This was the "unofficial" celebration - (I promise she dresed up way more for the real thing...)
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Old 06-09-2009, 11:30 AM   #161
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Ain't that sweet! I don't think my kids had a K graduation. Preschool, yes.
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Old 06-26-2009, 11:06 AM   #162
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Thors first lego stop motion animation. ( mine too, I'm figuring it out as we go along). It's importnat that it's on you tube, as they watch a lot of lego stuff there (a lot of which is very good)

No sound as yet.



The plot, truck carrying bomb, overshhots mark, reverses, drops off bomb.
Storm trooper kicks bomb back onto truck, blasts bomb, which explodes.
Stormtroopers rejoice
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Old 06-26-2009, 12:27 PM   #163
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My son loves doing that stuff, but we haven't figured out how to make an actual video yet. I admit, I haven't been motivated to try. How do you do it? What do you use? He's made a lot of photo series/slideshows. Very creative.
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Old 06-26-2009, 12:48 PM   #164
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Bravo, Thor!
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Old 06-26-2009, 12:50 PM   #165
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Did you see how awesomely they set the scene? putting fake dust on that shelf and everything



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