This is a video I took in July of 2006. DCG was a little over a year old. Each kid has their own piggy bank and we put loose change in it from time to time. DCG and her little fat baby hands could not manage to get the money in her piggy bank but she insisted on doing it herself. When she finally got her money in-PURE JOY! I love this video. I can't believe how much she has grown since then.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Day of awards
Thursday was a day of awards. In the morning we awarded the first annual Dorothy Preston Silver Scholarship in memory of my mom. The family read through a few applications and voted on a winner. The goal was to award the scholarship to someone who had overcome a lot. It was really nice to hand out the award at Madis
on Central. The student who received the scholarship had definitely been through a lot and I believe she will go on to bigger and better things.
Later in the day TPG "graduated" from preschool. I think preschool, kindergarten, middle school, graduations are a little strange
and I am not a huge fan of them. I mean, should we really celebrate something that is really an expectation? Anyway, it was a fairly low key event which was good. The students got up and sang two songs. Then they each got to go to the podium and say their name, age, the name of the school they would be attending in the fall and what they liked to learn about. TPG
has a tendency to be a little shy (I am not making that up, I swear, he can be shy) but he was the first kid to go and he stood up there and did great. We all got to eat lunch with the kids. The plan was not NOT make contact with DCG because we were going to bring TPG home with us and leave DCG at school until later in the day. But, to no avail. She spotted us and was pretty much inconsolable until I told her I was not going to leave her there.
We all went home and TTG and his dad (grandpa G.) begin working on a project in the yard. We have great neighbors beside us but they only way we can visit eachother is to walk all the way around the block. So, we decided to put in a gate between our yards. It turned out GREAT! We have already used it many times.
Last award, I promise. TPG then had to go to TaeKwonDo. Last time I mentioned TKD TPG had just earned his blue belt. Well, since then he earned a red belt and on Thursday he had the opportunity to earn a black belt (not really a black belt but a white belt with a black stripe) which would give him the title of Senior Captain of the Little Dragons. He has been working really hard for this and it finally happened. He was very proud.
on Central. The student who received the scholarship had definitely been through a lot and I believe she will go on to bigger and better things.Later in the day TPG "graduated" from preschool. I think preschool, kindergarten, middle school, graduations are a little strange
and I am not a huge fan of them. I mean, should we really celebrate something that is really an expectation? Anyway, it was a fairly low key event which was good. The students got up and sang two songs. Then they each got to go to the podium and say their name, age, the name of the school they would be attending in the fall and what they liked to learn about. TPG has a tendency to be a little shy (I am not making that up, I swear, he can be shy) but he was the first kid to go and he stood up there and did great. We all got to eat lunch with the kids. The plan was not NOT make contact with DCG because we were going to bring TPG home with us and leave DCG at school until later in the day. But, to no avail. She spotted us and was pretty much inconsolable until I told her I was not going to leave her there.
We all went home and TTG and his dad (grandpa G.) begin working on a project in the yard. We have great neighbors beside us but they only way we can visit eachother is to walk all the way around the block. So, we decided to put in a gate between our yards. It turned out GREAT! We have already used it many times.
Last award, I promise. TPG then had to go to TaeKwonDo. Last time I mentioned TKD TPG had just earned his blue belt. Well, since then he earned a red belt and on Thursday he had the opportunity to earn a black belt (not really a black belt but a white belt with a black stripe) which would give him the title of Senior Captain of the Little Dragons. He has been working really hard for this and it finally happened. He was very proud.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Washington DC 2008
I finally got all the pictures from our trip to DC uploaded, named, tagged... If you click on this picture, it will take you to the entire collection of pictures on Flickr. We had a great time. The weather was not so good but we managed a few sunny days for outside stuff and stayed indoors on the rainy days. L and A's life was turned completely upside down while we were with them but I like to think of our trips as free birth control for them. I am actually thinking of offering this service for anyone interested. Here is how it would go: So, you think you might want some kids? Invite the George family to stay at your house. Magically, the dream of kids just doesn't look that attractive anymore. We would offer this service free to family and only a nominal fee for others. What do you think?
Seriously, thank you L and A for allowing us to completely take over your house. We really appreciate it.
Enjoy the pictures.
Seriously, thank you L and A for allowing us to completely take over your house. We really appreciate it.
Enjoy the pictures.
Curly Girl
Is she a curly girl? Can she be a member of the club. As a straight haired person, I don't think I have the authority to make her a member of the group. Ok, curly girls, what do you think?
Click on the picture for more photos on my Flickr page
Click on the picture for more photos on my Flickr page
Happy Belated Birthday TTG
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Originally uploaded by Julie George
Friday, May 2, 2008
Funny Facebook Video
I saw this video on another blog and thought it was absolutely hysterical. TTG does not use Facebook so he did not think it was funny or even understand it.
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