Leo's Puppet Show

Leo has started doing elaborate puppet shows. Terry got an excellent video of one:




You can view it at
http://youtu.be/MjMDCNihckE

The Bone Napper!

Leo's rendition of the Bone Napper:



If you can't see it, go to
http://youtu.be/bMtceQsJSpk

Leo and Isa's dinner date

Leo and Isa can't have a playdate without turning it into a dinner date, a sleepover, and eventually a 24 hour playdate. Their dinner date ended up being a fancy event at Sushi Den. They dressed up in their fanciest wear and turned heads at the restaurant.

The Spot Party

Photos from Leo and Oliver's joint birthday party at the Spot Bouldering Gym:

Family in DC

We all met up in DC for seafood!

Throwing hatchets at dad

A child's dream - throwing hatchets at your dad while he's spinning on a giant roulette wheel



If you can't see this, go to
http://youtu.be/gs9QED_E768

Apogaea

We went to the Apogaea festival in Colorado. Art, games, weddings, trampolines!

This was the temple. They did not burn it because of the fire danger in Colorado right now.

The family on the Zander Lander which was a big hit, as always:

Leo learned to get himself into an overhanging hoop:

Leo on the trampoline:

Crazy child:

The cat in the hat:

The trampoline was a big highlight. We gotta get one of these:

For me too:

Black and White Umbrella Tricks!

Leo shows us his Black and White Umbrella Tricks! He's a pearl!



If you can't see this, go to
http://youtu.be/EGPjxAttXD4

And then for trick #2:



If you can't see this go to
http://youtu.be/_GJq_LvnomE

Leo and Isa Skating

Leo and Isa go skating every Saturday. They've gotten really good. Here they are doing the limbo, the partner limbo, the skate squat.



If you can't see this go to
http://youtu.be/xz7FEBS5gKY

Poetry

Leo wrote some poetry this morning and illustrated here.

If you can't see this, go to http://youtu.be/65YM593PXUU

Pear

Leo made this pastel picture of a pear in an art class. It blew us away. As you know, he is color blind, but here you can hardly tell. Anyway, the school lost it so we are bummed. Have to buy him some art supplies and have him work on more canvases for us!

Leo's new do!

Leo was getting 'helmut head', so we went to the hairdresser. We had to wait a while so we looked at the "women's hairstyle" book which was pretty frightening and then the men's hairstyle" book which is a lot less frightening. Leo picked out a bunch of hairstyles that he liked. They were all short with lots of hair goop. So we asked the hairdresser if she could do it and lo and behold, we've got a punky looking kid on our hands. He even got some 'hair glue' to keep it punky looking.

Leo's soccer award

Leo got an award from his Angry Birds team for his ability to play any position. you can view it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENW2A1bdKic&sns=em

More science experiements

Leo's teacher just amazes me. This is their science experiment on plants:



Go to http://youtu.be/q_mRLZxGaqU if you can't see this.

Angry Birds Soccer Team

The Angry Birds Soccer Team with Coach Phil and Coach Loren.

Birthday party at the rock climbing gym

Kids these days have the most amazing birthdays. Charlotte's birthday party was at the rock climbing gym. Kids got to boulder (climb sideways along a wall, short distance from ground), climb up some 20-25 feet onto giant rock formations, climb with a rope and harness, and try the slack line (tightrope). It was amazingly fun and all the kids had a great time. The birthday cake was pretty amazing too, a cake with a fondant covered rice krispie treat that was angled up as a giant flatiron (the flat rocks here in Boulder) with a climber dressed just like Charlotte on it. I don't know what the kids are going to say when Leo turns 7 and we have a party in our dandelion infested backyard with a few lawn chairs and a rope swing!

Leo is pretty safe and cautious, so he was heading up and down a lot of these rocks pretty slow (me, too, since we were roped in), and the middle clip of him climbing the giant rock formation without a rope was pretty scary for me, but he did great. I'm hoping to get him out rock climbing this summer. His good friends climb so we'll have company.

If you can't see this, go to:

http://youtu.be/imjb8N97vKE

Last day of black Trek lessons

Today was Leo's last day of ski lessons. He had an awesome second session, as there were only two kids in the black class. Conditions were slushy and it felt like summer and we were pretty baked. My thighs were pretty dead from leaning back on my skis so I could do the 'water skiing' that you have to do to get through the slush.

They skied every run that was open. Leo was falling asleep in the chair lift so they ended early. But he had a bug up his butt about skiing 20 runs today so he made me stay and do another 4 runs with him. This included two runs on Challenge which was a really nice mogul run today, soft and doable. Usually, it's hard and icy and not fun.

Anyway, here's the video clips.

If you can't see this, go to http://youtu.be/O_009FIzv8c

Teacher was really proud, said these were the two best kids of their age that he's taught. I was really proud, because I have a new ski buddy! He loves trees and bumps - what more could I ask for?

Leo the gladiator

We're all into gladiators these days. Leo's fighting and I'm renting Russell Crowe movies.

Red fish blue fish

Leo hadn't been reading much lately so I insisted he read something before playing video games. He picked up "Red Fish, Blue Fish" and read the whole book! I didn't realize how long it was - 63 pages, but he managed to persevere (another thing I'm worried about with him is perseverance) and make his way through. I'm really happy he's finally starting to break through on reading. He's been using raz-kids.org and their approach of reading books to earn points to buy space monsters has worked wonders for him.

Science Experiments

Leo had to demonstrate a science experiment today in school. He used his fave book The Encyclopedia of Immaturity (thanks, Rebecca!) to select air cannons. He made a couple different sized cannons and we have been having fun with them for the past few weeks. Then we got a smoke machine and discovered the great smoke rings you can make:

If you can't see this go to

http://youtu.be/1UmMCxHlWHE

It was a huge hit. Best part was that we did not trigger the smoke alarms!