"Mommy, what are the Olympics?"

"Well, I$ . . . you really don't have to concern your$elf with that right now. Plea$e put it out of your mind. Really. . . plea$$$$$e."

"But Mommy . . . can I go to them? Pleeeeeeaaaassssse"

"You mean go to China this Summer and watch them?"

"No, go to China and do my gymnastics"

"Oh . . . I think it is a bit too far for this Summer. Why don't you just swim for now and bother your boys . . but please don't be too rough on them . . . you're going to need them someday"

"yeah . . r i g h t" (7 is the new 21 !!)

Strange . . she looks innocent enough . . .

I know God has given her this superhuman strength for a reason and for His glory . . just not sure He remembered to give her parents and her brothers an extra measure of patience and understanding to go along with it. Unless of course He did that on purpose . . which I'm sure He did.

***N E W S F L A S H***

THIS JUST IN . . . .
FCAT results are in for 3rd graders and M shredded the math and reading scores. Too bad you can't score above a 5. He would have done that, too!

Academic games . . here we come. (something else to add to my schedule, btw)

Resident Artist . . .literally!

I am sooooo not good at keeping this post updated. I blink and another month has gone by. Someone needs to come up with a "How To Book" on making time slow down. I would actually slow down to read it.

Here are a couple pictures of the work of my "Artist in Residence"

The boat is his all time favorite and the other is a portrait of his school mascot and was his gift to the lower campus as he is heading to the upper campus next year. It has been a gift to have C at a Early Learning-6th grade. A gift of one more year with the little kids. I will take every moment I can get. Enjoy the pictures.