Biker Boy

Thursday in the park

September happenings

Sean started preschool this month. I am so glad we waited until this year - now he is ready and eager to go, and I know if I had taken him last year it would have been a year-long struggle to get him out the door.

He goes three days a week - Wed, Thurs, and Fri.




Sometimes you just need sunglasses at lunch. (We do have a blindingly-bright kitchen light.)

We had MORE yard work done. I think it is now complete. I will pull together some before and after pictures in a future post. It was a long long struggle to reclaim the yard from the weeds and woods that were encroaching on our house! (And I have nothing against woods, but I also didn't want my house to me overtaken by them!)

Bales of hay (or is it straw? I can't tell the difference and don't even know if there is one!) to cover the grass seed. I had to take some pictures of all the equipment since Sean was at school while this was going on.

Goodbye, old Cecil! We had a fun ten years living in five states!

This is the new family vehicle. I would have preferred a change from the bleak gray color, but you don't have much choice when you don't buy brand-new. Anyway, speaking of color, our other car is getting a paint touch up right now, so you will be seeing more car pics soon!

By the way my old car was named Cecil. Any ideas on the name for the new one?




Here is a test for video uploading success. If this works I will start posting more videos.

PS Watch the stick height, Sean! It's getting dangerous over there!

Notre Dame vs. SFU

We drove to South Bend for the first home ND game of the season. Well, not the game so much as getting together with some great family and friends, band rehearsal, tailgating, etc.

Holy cow, it was hot and humid at rehearsal on Friday afternoon. (Look at those cheeks! You can tell Teresa has enjoyed trying lots of new foods lately!)

Saturday was not much better. We took lots of breaks in the shade and in air conditioned buildings.




Teresa enjoyed dancing to all the music at the tailgates. (I'm really sorry I am having the worst time trying to get videos uploaded on Blogger. Any suggestions for other easy-to-use, free sites?)

Also notice Sean in the background. He found a light-up shotglass neckalace at EB's house and wore it for the day (until he dropped it and it broke, oh that was so heartbreaking for him!), and he actually did a shot of water much to the amusement of some friends of EBs. Somebody out there has a picture of it. And just for the record I do not encourage binge drinking of any kind! ;)

At the bullet. This caused some confusion. Sean thought we were saying "bulletin," as in church bulletin, so he was wondering what this had to do with Jesus. It was quite and interesting conversation.

Um, Teresa, I'm not done with that yet! And just for the record I do not give my babies beer, but I think it's ok to play with an empty on the grass. ;)




Faltos: the next generation! (Although we were missing a few who couldn't make it, and either Tom or Joe was hiding behind the tree....)




On Sunday we went to a Celtic festival in South Bend. Luckily a cool front moved in Saturday night, so the weather Sunday was absolutely wonderful!



Dad and Sean learn how to throw a tomahawk.




Some people were playing traditional Irish games - also interesting.




Teresa enjoyed walking around.

Sean got his face painted for the first time ever. I know, this might be kind of a girly thing to do, but it could be worse, right?

There was nothing with wheels on the list of selections, so Sean chose butterflies.






Here is Miss Goofy again.



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Ok these are unrelated to our trip weekend but somehow ended up being uploaded in this post.

Sean was excited to try on his new fall pj's!

He is also a subscriber to the Lego, Jr. magazine. They had a contest for building a robot, taking a picture of it, and sending it in for a chance for a Lego gift card. Voila! Sean made this all by himself.

Sean is enjoying preschool so far. Hopefully that will continue to be the case. He is also taking drum lessons, I can't remember if I mentioned that. I have some drumming videos, again if I can figure out how to upload them I will....

A little of bit of this, a little bit of that.

These pictures are just from last week, but wow what a difference in the weather! We are wearing jeans and sweatshirts this week, and last week we were trying to beat the heat - we had our last trip to the pool and ran in the hose/sprinkler almost every evening.

Grandma and Grandpa H. have a super awesome hose sprayer. Sean likes to run up their water bill. :)



Teresa is quite a goofy girl. If I am sitting on the ground, she often runs up to me and collapses in my lap.

More goofiness.

And, of course, more drumming. Always drumming. Daily drumming.



And what is cuter than a baby in a laundry basket?



Tomorrow is Sean's first day of Pre-K! Stay tuned....