Busy Day

We had one busy day. Lots of cleaning and changes. The morning started with Bob practically jumping out of bed at 7:30 and heading straight to the basement to weed things out. You wouldn't believe the amount of stuff that got removed from our home.

Liam kept saying that he was "helping the community." He thinks it is very cool when we donate things, problem is that he wants to donate absolutely everything. Bobby had to explain that some things we throw away nobody would want. We had a new shower door installed this morning. After Liam's ice skating lesson Bobby treated us to lunch, then he bought himself a little gift -- a stationary bike. He is beside himself with joy this evening. We are off to bed now so that we can get up at 5 a.m. to be on the slopes by 8.

Decisions, Decisions..."Cool" or "Handsome"

Mommy is informed every single day that a certain Kindergartner needs to look "cool." He stated that he just can't look "handsome" everyday. "Handsome" to Liam means having hair parted on the side and wearing dress cloths. "Cool" means wild hair and more surfer/skater/sports team type cloths.

Not only does he veto most of Mommy's outfit choices (they are either not cool enough or handsome enough -- what does she know,) he has also taken to styling his own hair (note tons of hair product.) Several days ago he cut his hair because the pieces that were falling on his face didn't look "cool," and they were bothering him.

Bye Bye Betsy

Bob has finally donated his beloved Betsy to a charitable organization.

It was a very sad day for Bob as he said good bye to his friend of 10 and a half years -- one champagne '87 Merc 300 SDL

Fun New Game

Hockey Bowling anyone?
Liam has invented yet another new game...hockey bowling. This is a little different from regular bowling in the following ways:

1) you play in your socks instead of bowling shoes
2) you have a stick and a puck
3) the pins are stacked in fun, creative ways
4) you can either try to get the puck through the holes without knocking the pins, or you can try to lift the puck to knock individual pins

Needless to say tons of fun was had, and a big mess was made.

Liam at his leisure

Some of the ways Liam passes the time... Dr. Noonan doing his thing.

Bob and Liam built a backyard luge track. When I looked out the window and saw Bob with a shovel moving and packing snow, I thought they were making a backyard terrain park (which would not be far-fetched for these two). They ended up making a cool run that started on the deck, ran through the yard, around the shed, and ended at the side of the house.

After sledding, Liam headed in for a little exercise. Bob tried to get a photo of Liam running drills around the cones, but all the pix turned out a bit blurry. After his "warm-up", Liam invented a game where the cones are lined-up and the object is to knock them over with slap-shots.

Note:

I'm bummin' that I didn't have the camera this week the couple times we hit the mountain for some skiing. Liam has started to ride the rails -- he is a child with a mission who is practicing, practicing, and practicing some more until he gets the skill. Mommy took one jump with the kid and quickly realized that she isn't 20 anymore.

Valentine Day Show

This morning Liam's class put on a Valentine's Day Show for the parents. The show was followed by a party in the classroom. Turns out that Liam has a little bug, because following the party he turned green, got sick and then went home.

We think that he probably wasn't feeling all that well before school, but didn't want to miss any of the festivities. We should have been suspicious when he announced, "I feel GREAT!" first thing when he woke this morning.


The above photo was taken a couple days ago when Liam and Daddy were working on architectural masterpieces.

Do Rangers do Playdates?

Liam in his Sean Avery #16 hat watching the first period of the Rangers/Devils game this evening. (Poor little guy has to go to sleep at the first intermission -- we are such mean parents.)

So, at dinner this evening Liam asked, in all seriousness, "Mommy, I'd like to have a playdate with Sean Avery. Can you call him?" After Bob and I laughed, we had to explain that it isn't easy to contact a professional hockey player, and even if you could, he might be too busy for a playdate.