Guess Who, Round #2

This actually happened last Monday afternoon on Labor Day.  Those dang trampolines are going to kill us yet. 

Poor Gabe did not get much sympathy from me that night.  I just figured he was milking it for all he could.  For some reason my kids like to do that.  The next morning he was hopping around the house like a kangaroo, so I kept him home, iced it up, and called the dr.  Sure enough, the x-ray showed a break in the growth plate.  The novelty of the cast wore off in about 2 days, and now I have to make him WALK with it.  He still thinks that he can barrel thru the house and up and down the stairs like normal.  You can always tell when he is coming though because he clonks thru the house like a peg legged pirate. 

Friday Foto March 12, 2010

Last Saturday Gabriel went to Regions for wrestling. (we start em' young, this is his 3rd season) He loves wrestling as much as his older brothers do. I am so aggravated at myself for only taking pictures of one of his matches and not even good ones at that. I didn't even get a picture of him and his 4th place medal! (we won't get into the fact that it should have been 3rd place. There may or may not have been some yelling at the "stupid table workers" who could not keep a score table if their lives depended on it, water bottles being thrown, and yelling at various people, and no that was not Joe.)

Here is a picture of him as he is getting ready to wrestle the 2nd kid of the day. He kept growling at Gabe and busted his lip at one point. Gabe kept at it and pinned him in the 3rd period. Going for the pin!

Gabe did an awesome job and is going to State tomorrow. Good luck Gabe!!

I will try to contain myself and be the model of decorum, but there is no gaurantee that will happen!

Squirrel Huntin'

A few weeks ago it was "free" squirrel hunting day. (for those uninitiated folks, yes, you really do have to have a hunting license to hunt squirrels and yes, people really do eat squirrels!) The 3 big boys were off in different directions and so Joe took Gabriel hunting. Ever since he got a bb gun for his birthday he has been dying to go hunting. They went up into the woods and sat for several hours. Joe kept asking him if he was ready to go back to the house and he kept telling him, no he wasn't leaving until he got a squirrel. Alas, no squirrels, but a very happy little boy who got to sit in the trees with his dad for several hours one very beautiful sunny morning.

(no, you can't really hurt a squirrel with a bb gun, but Gabe doesn't know that!)

Where do You Want to Live?

Yesterday Gabriel asked me if I could live anywhere in the world, where would it be. I told him wherever he lived. He then replied that I had better get ready to move into Walmart, because he was going to live there with the salty chips. Dang. I should've said Australia.

Kindergarten Graduation

Gabriel graduated from kindergarten this morning. You would have thought that it was high school as emotional as I got. He had the BEST teacher. We love her so much. She is getting married and moving to Louisiana this summer so Abigail will not have the opportunity to have her. I think that is why I was so sad. She was so sweet to Gabe. She taught him things that I had struggled with for MONTHS! He is reading now and he struggled at the beginning of the year with his letters so much. Gabriel receiving his diploma from the principal.

He told me that he was so nervous and embarrassed to walk up there in front of all those people. (He gets that from me and my brothers. The less attention focused on us the better.) He said, "Mom, I was so nervous, but I faced my fears and got up there." So cute!

Puzzling Questions

This morning as I was taking the kids to school, Gabriel asks from the back seat, "Hmm, I wonder why they call them sixlips? There are eight in a pack."
What? Where in the world did that come from?

Muscle Man

Someone has been working out in his spare time. Joseph will be SO jealous of those muscles!