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Homework!

Homework was sent home this week for ME! Don and I had to write about a family celebration and describe how we celebrate. Their learning unit this term is "Celebrations", so all their lessons stem from this basic concept. I decided to take this opportunity to create a scrapbook page (multi-tasking is GOOD) for Colin's scrapbook... He will present his mom and dad's homework at school, then we'll put it in the scrapbook... at least that's the plan.

Here 'tis!

India Week at BASC

I think I've got British School fever, this school does such fun things! This week, they are celebrating India Week. Some of the middle school students created a blog to highlight the activites of the week. They made Indian Rangoli, have sampled Indian Foods, and tomorrow will be receiving a henna tattoo! Such fun!

http://indiaweekbasc.wordpress.com/

http://indiaweekbasc.wordpress.com/

Reading Award

Don and I started out this school year with the thought that, if Colin was reading fluently by the end of the year, we would be happy. You see, he really wasn't reading yet! By October, he was definitely reading, and by Christmas he was reading EVERYTHING in sight. We are delighted with his progress in reading, and even more happy that he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence at school for his wonderful progress.  Great job, Little Man!

First Soccer Game for Colin, and Dad's the coach!

Yesterday was an exciting day! Colin played in his first soccer game. He is on a league with 8 year olds, and this young 5-year old did a great job of keeping up. Dad's the coach, which is a new and exciting adventure for us all. I was delighted to sit on the sidelines in full "soccer mom" glory - complete with the cooler of Gatorade and my 80-200m/f2.8 lens :-) We have a superstar named Clay on the team, and he scored 5 goals all by himself! Colin struggled to make it through the game, he kept trying to come see me on the sidelines to tell me he was tired. Poor little guy. But with Dad's encouragement, he kept going all the way through the game. I'm so proud of BOTH my guys.

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Colin Freeland, Christmas 2007

This is one of my favorite shots of all time! Christmas 2007. Colin, age 4. Murphy, age 5.

I was driving Colin nuts on this day, trying to get some shots for my Mugshots promotion (it involved hot cocoa, gingerbread men, huge candy canes... Mr. Colin was quite the willing participant!) Anyway, once I'd wrapped shooting, we were hanging out around the house, and I captured this shot on our own front porch. :-)

Animated Game

Colin has really gotten into this thing called "Bakugan", which is kind of like playing marbles, except the marbles transform into characters while playing. It's quite fascinating (and for this mom, a little confusing).

While having dinner at a restaurant, Colin and Don played a quick game of Bakugan. It just makes me laugh seeing these facial expressions! He is pretending to stare down his dad here, and I'm pretty sure he won!