It's 12 noon, do you know where your children are?!??..

So I'm clearing up the icons on the iMac, checkin' things out when I come across these videos in photo booth....

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In this one, you can clearly hear me telling dh "I don't know where they are...." 

(ETA:  Don't be fooled though--being the mom that I am, I always, almost always, usually, sometimes know where they are and what they're up to..)

Wordless Wednesday

Estrogen American Shore Edition....

Monday, Monday..

I'm busy putting the final touches on the school year this week.  We're actually easing into the new year today by organizing and doing a few short lessons.  I hope to get some of our plans posted here soon.  We should be into a full schedule around here next week (same time as the local ps).  What does all this have to do with the following picture, you ask??? NUTHIN'!  Just a random, outta left field-ish photo of  the KING of left field-ish, Four:

Google reader--

It's da bomb!

Missoula Children's Theatre performance

It was fabulous!  Kids all did a great.  The costumes were fun.  I could go on, but the show was  a week ago, and well, you know, I've slept a couple of nights since then and besides, all that the grandparents want to see on this here blog are pictures anyway... so enough of my yammerin'  and on to the show!

As mentioned previously, One played the part of Wilson-- He sung (sang, singed??!?), he danced, and had great facial expressions:

Two played an, um Frowny Faced Tribesman, which is quite hilarious since this kid, out of all the monkeys, is anything but 'frowny'.   Their costumes were the best:

Three played a chameleon (be impressed- I spelt that one right without looking it up).  These guys were too cute, despite that Three says he's waaaaay too old to be 'cute'.

We all had a fabulous time and our evening was topped off by an after performance ice cream party hosted by Robinson Crusoe's family.  Great night.

Wordless Wednesday

(experimenting with evening natural light..)

Retreat

One of my favorite things about living on base is knowing that at 5pm, everyday, the Princess bursts outside (if she's not already there) to do this:

**For my non-military friends, the national anthem is played daily at this time to signal the end of the day, aka:Retreat.

Missoula Children's Theatre is here!

One, Two and Three have been busy, busy, busy with this wonderful little group that pulled into town to help the kiddos on base put on a fun rendition of Robinson Crusoe.   At the end of the day, the monkey's  little thespian faces were lit with excitement when sharing with Dad what their part would be in the play.  

We have "Wilson"-- a goat, played by One.

A "Scary-faced Tribesman" played by Two.  (hmm...this should be interesting)

and, last but not least a "Chameleon" (had to look that up to spell it right..) played by Three.

They all have ONE week to get it all together for the performance on Friday.  'May the Force be with them...'

Here are a few pics from the try outs yesterday.. overall pretty lame, buuuut if you only knew the movement (or lack there of) and lighting challenges I faced, I'm sure you'd be much more impressed.  

The auditions comprised of  sitting....

 

Oh, lots of sitting...  (the expressions are priceless, aren't they?-- I promise, they really were excited at the end of the day, really.  Hey, maybe the key word here is 'end'..)

Aaaand don't just think they sat around to get their parts.  Heavens no!  They stood too..

I can't wait to see what all this sitting and standing finally turns into... stay tuned, it should be interesting.

Jumpin' for Joy

My posting has been a bit light these days as our outdoor activity has been on the rise. Pool time, beach time and now trampoline time (yeah, baby!) leaves little post time.   Hope to be blogging again soon on a more regular basis.