Month: October 2012

So Long, Shark

A couple of years ago, Aunt Suzy lovingly gave Ricky some fish for his birthday.  All the fish died off, except two.  A few months ago, we lost another fish.  That left us with the algae eater.  He was big and ugly and creeped me out.  The boys called him “the shark.”  He was big!  […]

Passing Level 2

The third time was the charm … Ricky passed Level 2 at his latest swimming lesson! It was a relief to Kevin and I, but I think Ricky felt pretty proud of himself, too.  We went to a different pool and were all much  more satisfied … Kevin and I because of the teaching and […]

Tomato Days

Our city celebration was over a month ago, but I just barely took the pictures off my camera.  September was a busy month! We took it a little slower this year for Tomato Days.  We didn’t do the 5k.  We didn’t do a baby contest.  We didn’t miss them, either.  We did look at the […]

A Friend

Billy took a beating yesterday. He took a beating for being a friend to a boy at school who is different. He took the beating FROM that boy. When I asked Billy how his day went, he told me, “Good!” and went on about how they got recess AND PE in one day and that […]