Catching Up

The end of the school year has kept us quite busy of late. One thing you missed was Eldest's birthday. He wanted nothing as much as a cell-phone. Mother and I went to Verizon to see if, maybe, we could add him to our plan. Maybe. Though we are somewhat philosophically opposed to middle-schoolers with cell-phones. Well, to add him to our plan would mean upgrading our plan too much, so that was a no-go. But, good news! We were eligible for new phones!

So, let's review: Eldest wants a cell phone more than anything else for his birthday. We leave the house to go birthday shopping for him. We come home with new cell phones. For ourselves.

Once again, the "Parents of the Year" award slips through our fingers.

But it is fun to have a camera phone, and on this entry are a bunch of pictures I snapped with the new phone, as well as one or two from our more conventional digital camera, and a video Bon Bon took of the kids dancing at Arts Fest with her phone. As I watch the battery on my laptop dwindle, I'm just slopping these pictures up here in no particular order, so let's call it a matching game. See if you can match the image to the caption. Fun!

1. Video of the kids jammin' with Scooter and Bon Bon's daughter to the reggae sounds of The Ark Band at Arts Fest.

2 & 3. Youngest with his teachers on his very last day as a Pre-K-er.

4. Daughter enjoying the pool party to celebrate the end of fourth grade.

5. Eldest studying for exams. This was actually a really nice time, as he and I sat at a coffee shop for hours. He studied Chinese while I graded exams.














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6. Youngest - Yippee! - leaving his daycare for the very last time.

7. Youngest looking cool with his newest past-time, Super Mario on GameBoy.

8. Daughter and Youngest enjoying mall-food and discussing the philosophical implications of string theory.

9. Youngest keepin' it real with a mall-fountain enema.

Summer, baby!