Some of My Art

 These are dolphins , a weird room that I painted and water falling made out of paper and tissue paper.

 This one is a hummingbird with some flowers made with oil pastels.

 This is also a hummingbird with flowers but made out of paper and tissue paper.

 This one I painted. It is the album cover to The Beatles' Yellow Submarine.

 A John Lennon I painted.

 A Paul McCartney I painted.

George Harrison....

 and Ringo Starr.

 John, Paul, George and Ringo.

A Green Gables that I painted.

What colour do you think this dress is ?

Make sure everyone votes. Put them in the comments.

Ringette Videos

Here are a few videos from Calliope's ringette practices. The first video is from the first session. The other two are from the last session. The girl with the red on her jersey is a Canadian who played for the U.S. team in North Bay in December. She came down from Ayr to play that day with her parents.

Ringettte week 4

Last Sunday was the last ringette of the Spring session. The coach is hoping she'll play in the fall so we got to keep the equipment for now. Here are some pictures. I'll post videos in a different post.

Floyd watching the zamboni before she took to the ice.

We sat a little closer this time.

Calliope skating and I got a bit of knitting done before Floyd needed more attention.

Skating around with a ring.

"Why are we here? And what do you mean Calliope's out there? I don't see her!"

Coach trying to get it away from her.

Floyd found a puck.

Playing.

Ringette - Week 1

Calliope once again did the spring ringette session. She is now old enough to play with the older girls. Her skill level isn't quite the same as the other girls as they have also been playing hockey for several years. Here are some pictures of her first practice back in April.

Floyd interested in what is going on - the zamboni might have still been on the ice.

Calliope on the ice and doing some drills.

Going around pylons.

Close-up.

Nova in the penalty box.

Practicing stick handling.

Get it, Calliope!

Time to play!

Erasers Galore!!!

This is my collection of adorable erasers. I really enjoy collecting them, and I hope you enjoy

looking at them.

These are my erasers. From left to right it is a plate with beans, pasta, and yams. 

The one to the right is a fried egg in a pan.

These are my yummy treat erasers. There is a slice of cake, a cupcake, and a donut.

These are my ice cream erasers. There's  vanilla, and chocolate, ice creams. 

There also is a yummy pink popsicle.

These are my utensil erasers. There is a stapler, tape, a camera, and a pot.

These are my animal erasers. These two are a elephant, and a kitty.

These are my water animal erasers. There is a seal, a whale, and a little cute dolphin.

Ringette

If I waited any longer for Calliope to do this post, I don't think it would ever happen, so here you go. On February 23rd, Calliope went and tried playing ringette. The Ann Arbor league just started last year and is supposedly the only one in the U.S.A. They've had people from Canada come down and teach them and even donate equipment. They mainly play Canadian teams as there are no other teams down here. They hope to go to North Bay this December for the 50th anniversary tournament. Calliope really enjoyed it and we signed her up for the Spring session. She will play 5 Sundays in a row starting April 14th (because we needed something else to do in April). We will be buying her skates but she is borrowing the rest of the equipment. If she still likes it after the Spring session and wants to continue to play we will invest in buying her, her own equipment. Ringette isn't played in the same rink as their usual skating lessons. She was at the Ann Arbor Ice Cube and was skating on the Olympic sized rink. The girl in the blue jersey that is close to her in many of the pictures was her "buddy", an older girl teaching her how to play. They played a little scrimmage at the end and each of the new girls (I think there were almost 10) had a buddy with them which made the ice really full. Hopefully now that the pictures are posted I can get Calliope to add her own words soon.

The man in the red shirt is the main coach and it is his daughter who expressed interest in learning how to play. We discovered that his daughter goes to the same school as our kids (in a higher grade so we didn't really know her) and they live in Ypsilanti as well. 

Calliope's 1st 5k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 This is me ready for running the 5k on Sunday December 9th.

 This is my Girls on the Run group, and I am doing jumping jacks to keep warm before the 5k.

 Jumping jacks still.

 This is another way to keep warm it's called high knees.

 This is an exercise called toy solider.

 This is my Girls on the Run group and I in a group picture. I am in middle row.

 Another picture of the group.

 This is a picture of me and Papa before the 5k.

 This is the picture of the starting line.

 This is a picture of Nova standing at the sidelines.

 Another picture of the starting line.

 This is a picture of Nova holding the sign he made for me.

 And we're off!

 Still running. (Joseph can be seen running in shorts and with his Sonic Youth hat on).

 This is a picture of the freezing Nova holding his hot chocolate.

 This is a picture of two of my coaches, and some of my fellow team mates running to the finish line.

 This is a picture of me and Papa running towards the finish line.

 Almost there.

 Closer.

 Even closer.

 In this picture you can see Papa's hat in the Jumbotron .

 In this picture you can barely see my hat.

 These are mine and Papa's medals from the 5k.

Eating noodles yummy! Garlic bread sauce is spicy.