First Day of School

Cade and Gabby ready to head out for the first day of school.  Cade hits third grade and Gabby starts all-day school in first grade.  They are both in 1-2-3 classes and are in adjoining pods so they can keep a lookout for each other.  They both have lots of friends in their classes and like their teachers.

This is the crowd the kids hang with at the busstop in the mornings.  

California Reunion

Since there was a Women's Outing and Men's Outing (the men's outing was significantly cooler, once again, than the women's outing - we nearly killed someone on our outing) the kids decided they deserved an outing of their own.  So with some moderate supervision they walked around the corner and all but the 3 youngest came home with enough ice cream to feed 4x that many kids.  

Here are the adults - and look we're still talking to each other! Even after 7 days and 21 people crammed into one house.  While the digs were a little small, it's hard to complain about the location when the beach is literally less than 100yds from the front door.  Plus there was tons of good food.  We Wilsons are good and dandy so long as we get enough food and sleep.

Obama Indoctrination

I hope my kids are all indoctrinated today by Pres. Obama

Kellen loves Avery

Cade and Gabby's Glasses

Cade and Gabby were so excited to get their glasses this weekend. Little do they know what a lifetime of hassle awaits them. We are also fortunate that the models have evolved quite a bit since we were kids and got the thick brown frames that were most definitely not attractive.

Gabby would like to point out the little flowers on the temples.

Cade would just like to show how happy he is.

Avery's First Smiles

Cade Memorializes Michael Jackson

As I was driving Cade and his friend Nate to a birthday party the other day I overheard them talking about Michael Jackson. It was an interesting discussion.

Cade asked Nate if he had seen all the "People picture" magazines and wasn't he getting sick of all the talk about Michael Jackson. Nate said he had seen all the magazines and agreed that everyone was spending entirely too much time talking about Michael Jackson. They then had a brief discussion about Jackson's career which Cade summed up thusly: "I liked him a lot better when he was black and when he didn't talk like a girl. He looked all weird when he was white and so skinny. You definitely don't want to get the laser surgery." Nate agreed that you didn't want to get the laser surgery, "unless it's laser eye surgery - that's okay."

And I think that sums up the Michael Jackson era - by two kids, 8 & 9, who I doubt had ever heard a Michael Jackson song or even knew who Michael Jackson was three weeks ago - he could sing when he was black and he was creepy when he was white. Apparently in his case it does matter if you're black or white.