Newark Days - wrap up!

What a busy weekend -- I know we aren't done but tomorrow is MINE!

Our town has a yearly celebration of its birthday (I guess). Thursday night was $1 ride night at the carnival and Noah's cub scout pack wanted the boys to go in uniform to kinda "drum up business". I took Noah for about an hour while Hana was in dance (she's not a ride girl anyway). We ran into one of Noah's pals while we were there and they went on a few rides together. He was so happy!

Next...Friday! Hana's dance studio was the opening act for like 20 different performances this weekend. I had to have her at the dance studio at 3:30 in hair, make-up and costume. One of her recital dances was chosen for the hour long performance. It was her hip hop routine "I'm a Little Teapot". There were about 15-20 kids in it before and only 6 came back to do the show for Newark Days. I was impressed she remembered the routine since she hadn't done it since early June. She made me proud. She had a smile on her face the entire time. Great stage presence.

Don and Noah watching the show -- Handsome, huh?

Taking her bow "for all the fans"...oh the Diva runs strong with this one.

Today - Saturday - Both Hana and Noah (and Don!) have been going to parade practice every Friday since school started. Today they walked (Noah rode on the float) in the parade for the school. The school won 1st place for their float and they won Best in Class. Awesome!

The theme of Newark Days this year was Celebrating the Arts. So the school float was in the theme of Van Gogh with lots of sunflowers and copies of his art. Kids were dressed in big puffy white shirts and berets. Some dancers. Some gypsys (not sure why...). It was really beautiful. I sat with some friends to watch AND...get this...I brought Lily (our dog). Lily had a grand time sniffing things. She only barked one time -- at some person dressed up on a float in a chicken costume. Go figure.

How stinkin' cute is he? I just want to eat him up!

Here you can just barely see Noah (click on the photo to enlarge). He is on the float sitting under the eagle mascot and holding a piece of artwork. Don is walking behind him a few steps in a blue t-shirt and "a dirty old hat".

My gorgeous girl looking perfectly refreshed after walking over a mile.


Newark Days concludes tomorrow. But we are supposed to get hit with a heat wave starting tomorrow so I think we will be staying home. I think we have celebrated our community enough for one weekend. Go Newark!

First Day of School 2009-10

Here they are! My 1st grader and my 4th grader (that one hurt to type a little bit).

Noah with his teacher Mrs. Felix. She looped her whole class from last year. I'm thrilled. Everyone knows what to expect (except the few new additions due to class size going up from budget cuts -- from 20 in K to 3 up to 27) and they can just get going. Sweet class, too. Great teacher for Noah as well. Noah keeps telling me that 1st grade is "AWESOME!" Can't ask for more than that, right?

Hana and her teacher Mr. Brose. She kept her fingers, toes and eyes crossed all summer that she would get him. He's the popular 4th grade teacher. She's loving it so far. No complaints equals happy me!

The Tale of a Foot

Here is what started it. Noah...successfully riding his two wheeler! Woo hoo! Enter proud dad going out to buy a bike of his own so he could ride side by side with his son. Enter same dad who exercised poor judgement and put his son on the bar in front of his seat on the new bike (by the way...new bike still has the paper in the wheels...THAT new!). Poor son got his foot caught in

spokes of the bike wheel.

Here is the son after a visit to the Urgent Care where he was splinted and we were told he could not put weight on his foot all weekend -- had to carry him and sponge baths til Monday when he saw the orthopedist.

After Monday's visit...Doctor removed the splint and put on a hard cast. Verdict: not broken or fractured. Very swollen. Possibly sprained. Doctor was more worried about the skin near the bone so the cast was to prevent further damage.

First day of school with his extra "school supply". When he came home he said that, "100 people asked me about my cast and I had to say, 'bike accident' 'bike accident' 'bike accident' 'bike accident' 'bike accident'. It was killing me!"

Today...we went to get the cast removed. Here he is standing outside the clinic.

Noah's dirty toes. Still cute though.

Putting on a brave face. He was nervous about the saw and freaked out when the guy told him it was noisy.

After removing the cast and wrappings. I was standing on the other side and saw a small scab and though, "Oh that isn't so bad." Then Hana and Noah made a big stinkin' deal about the other side. I leaned over and almost fainted when I saw this... (didn't help that I got a big whiff of the unwashed foot either...)

My brave boy amidst the gauze and wrappings.

And one more from a slightly different angle...just for my mom. (Love you mom! If I have to have the "Ow! Ow! Ow! Poor baby!" feelings so do you.)

Doctor wrote a note for no PE for two weeks ... yeah right. Apparently Noah had a fit because he couldn't do the activity for PE right today. He likes PE. He's supposed to cover that ginormous scab with a bandaid, sock and regular shoes. Yeah sure. No tub baths for at least another week...UGH!!!! That is killing me! Oh Donald...