The Jungle Book

On the heels of Snoball week at the high school was Catholic Schools Week. We were very fortunate this year to have Missoula Children's Theater come in to put on The Jungle Book with our students. The directors, Pablo and Alex, did a fantastic job. At the end of the week, Seth took Pablo (a North Carolina native) ice fishing for the first time. They didn't catch anything, but Pablo loved every second of this cultural experience - snapping pictures like a tourist at every opportunity. Unfortunately kids were getting sick left and right throughout the week so both our stage managers had to step in and play at the end - and Kaa (the snake) was about 3 kids shorter by the performance. But they pulled it off and the show went on! Here are a few pictures

Oliva was a monkey (3rd from the left)

 

Frank was part of Kaa (also 3rd from the left)

Charlie was the Father Wolf (in black). 

And with that, I'll share a few recent quotes!

Olivia (looking at a watercolor painting): Who painted this?

Me: Elena

Olivia: Wow! She's really good at painting. I wonder if she's secretly Bob Ross's wife...

Me: Let's ask her... (through the bathroom door) Elena! Are you secretly Bob's Wife?

Elena: How did you know???

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Olivia: Jesus isn't like Mr. Cardinal [the gym teacher]. He doesn't blow a whistle and make us run 5 laps. Jesus is like a ninja! He stays hidden and you can't see him and he's a hero who saves us.

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Olivia: These onions are sweet.

Me: Yeah, if you cook them it takes out the.....what do you call it?

Olivia: Cryingness?

Me: Yeah, that'll work.

It's been a busy few months for Sam. First, he was selected as the Junior attendant for Snoball week at the high school. Some of the activities were interrupted by snowstorms (which is pretty typical), but we were able to attend the coronation. Seth had to leave before we could get a picture, but I got one. I did not realize how short I look next to Sam until I looked at this photo. Yikes!

Shortly after Snoball, a group of the high school boys, including Sam and RJ spent all of Valentine's Day delivering Singing Telegrams to students around the school. It was quite entertaining. I got a few videos, which are at the end of the post. Here's the poster from the school hallway leading up to the big day.

February also wrapped up the wrestling season. It was an exciting end to the year with the team & several individuals going to state. The team got 4th place in a very close match! The first 2 photos are from earlier in the season. The ones below are at State. Sam was able to pin a kid from Chatfield in a very exciting match - you can see the pin and the reaction below. Oh yeah, and all of the wrestlers bleached their hair for state, thus the blonde hair. 

Frank and Olivia typically struggle to sit through wrestling tournaments, but we were lucky to have cousins there. We were also able to visit both the Children's Museum and the MN Zoo while we were up there. 

Right on the heels of coming back from State, Sam and Ian got confirmed into the Catholic Church. It was a beautiful Mass and a beautiful day. We celebrated with two other families who also had boys getting confirmed. The 4 of us have been good friends since before they were born, and these boys were all born within 5 months of each other. Each of our 4 boys had at least a sponsor or godparent (or both) from one of the other 3 families.

  

At the party, we dug up this old baby picture of the 4 of the boys together. Of course we had to re-create it. I don't think any of the boys were at all enthused about this, but they obliged for their mothers. We also made them take a picture all on our laps for old times sake. 

Since they were such good sports, we let them get one normal picture with us as well!

Here are the videos of the Singing Valentine's. Since Valentine's Day landed on the weekend, they had to sing early so it landed up Ian's birthday - thus the bonus song at the end.