Lego Parade

I gave Roderic a writing assignment this morning. He need to write a story about legos and the 4th of July. First, he told me that he needed to build it and then he'd write about it. He spent an hour just building.













Then he wrote the story:


In case you can't read his writing, this is what it says:
By: Roderic and Hyrum
July 4th. It was a beautiful day. Blue skies. No airplanes. Some soldiers were marching in a parade.

Hyrum-ism

This one happened in March, but I ran across the paper I wrote it on tonight and thought I'd post it.

Hyrum: {burp} "Excuse me, Leo."

Leo: looks at Hyrum with a quizzical look

Hyrum: "He's saying, 'Tell someone "Excuse me" that's your own size.' Leo there's no one here my own size to excuse."


In other news, this is what I was wearing when I went to sing with Syringa Sound Chorus for the Veteran's Welcome Home yesterday afternoon. It is our 'summer costume' with minimal makeup.

Epic Vacation, Step 2: Planning

The planning stage has been time consuming! Where to stay, what to see, what to pack, how to keep the kids interested, etc.

Sabrina has created a blog to chronicle our Epic Vacation: mormonhistorytour.blogspot.com. So far, we've had the kids write reports about the different places we'll be visiting along our tour. While we're traveling, we'll update it with what we're seeing.

Google Maps has been my friend. Calculating driving times and routes. It's pretty awesome.


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Since first planning this trip, my brother was called to serve as a young performing missionary in Nauvoo. We'll get to see him perform in 2 of the shows there. And my sister got engaged (Congratulations!) and will be married in California on July 23 so our tour is getting longer and from coast to coast, although we won't see either ocean.

We'll be going through 18 states, 1 Canadian province and driving more than 6200 miles. Let's hope our minivan is up for this odyssey.

Calvin and bikes

We got a bike for Roderic from a friend whose son had out-grown it. It was parked for a while on our front porch by leaning against the house because it didn't have a kickstand. Roderic's imagination and fascination with Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strips have caused him to nickname it his "Calvin bike". The bike doesn't have training wheels and when learning to ride training-wheel free, he would often say, "It's trying to kill me!" Just like Calvin. He has mostly gotten over this fear and will ride the bike for short distances (around our cul-de-sac).


One day while I was trying to convince him to ride his bike, I told him about a time when I had a "Calvin bike". It was a present from Ryan in 1997. I recently found a picture.


Here is a video of him riding his "Calvin bike".