Ice Skating

Max's last fieldtrip of the year was at Polar Ice. This is Max with his best buds Tarun and Jace. I'm not sure who the boy on the end is.

Max and Tarun together are major goof balls.

Apparently Max likes to give Tarun piggy back rides. They were cracking me up.
First, we went on a tour. This is a picture of the zamboni. Or whatever it's called. Sadly the kids weren't impressed - they just wanted to skate.

Case, Tarun and Max getting ready to skate.

I was so proud of Max. Most of his friends caught on quickly and skated away. Max had a little trouble.

He would stand up, skate a little, start flailing, then fall on his butt. But he always got back up - he never gave up.


Kahea came to the rescue! She helped Max find his center of gravity.

I love this picture - and I didn't recognize Jonah at first with his new haircut. What a handsome dude!

I had to include this picture. See that adorable girl on the far right? Max's aide told me that her and Max are good friends. I'm glad he is still at the age where he can be friends with a girl without worrying about being teased. They were really cute together on the fieldtrip.

Notice the angle of this picture. I took it from the cold, icy floor where I fell. It wasn't pretty because I tried to catch myself - which made me fall harder. 3 different adults came over to see if I was ok. My pride was the only thing I injured.

I had so much fun with Max. I was so proud of him for not giving up - he must have fallen 50 times. He's an awesome kid.

Lego Build

Last Tuesday Kahea invited the boys and I to come with them to the Lego Store's monthly build. Here's what happens:

1. You wait in line (while waiting we did homework, ate pretzels and built Evan's legos)

2. A Lego Store employee comes around and gives each kid a card with a picture on it. The picture is of the lego they are going to build.
Notice Kahea's kids were smiling nicely the whole time. Mine - not so much.

3. Then a Lego employee gives each kid a Lego magazine to try to distract us from the fact that we have been waiting in line a while. It worked with everyone except Evan. It just made Evan want every lego in the store (especially the Star Wars ones).4. Then they split everyone into groups and give each kid a bag with the appropriate legos. Then we were assigned a table and a Lego expert.

The boys were impressed that Ashton finished his in no time. Since there were no directions, it was really impressive. Evan didn't even try to do his. He browsed around the store instead - desperately looking for a Lego Darth Vader figure.



They got to keep their finished products - which was a blackbird.

The Lego Store does it for free the first Tuesday of each month.

Next month I won't be bringing Evan due to him throwing way too many fits and whining way too much. The other boys had a great time.

The J Boyz

Last week my friend Kahea's boys came over to play.

Kahea has 5 boys. Maybe that's why I feel such a kinship with her...she understands my pain (just kidding!).

Max and Ben spent a long time playing basketball and playing on the trampoline with her two older boys.

Her other two kept Evan occupied that whole time. I'm not going to lie - it was awesome.

I almost cried when they left.

P.S. On the way home from school I tried to talk the boys into going with me to Justin Bieber's movie. The sound of booing in the car was deafening. I guess I won't bring that up again.