long weekend and bosco can invent whatever he likes when he has a willing assistant / builder

so began the toilet seat go-cart

walked around the corner to find this:

 

so shocked...

i just had to take a photo:

pepper & bosco getting along

how bosco wears his shoes...

...into the ground

time for a new pair -
he chose smurf blue converse

Annie

pepper's performances were dec 8th and 10th




on the 8th, we went as a family




on the 10th, karen came for dinner and drove pepper for curtain call,


then mom, di, janette, holli (and I) saw the show.

jazz band

the day before this, fierce played with the jazz band at the Fergus santa claus parade - complete with sousaphone (sorry I didn't take a pic of that!)
and now it's a performance for the families with fierce on piano, and tuba

battle archery

finally using up our wagjag

this was so much fun - we're going to gift the dufaults at Christmas with a full family battle!

bosco bubbles

 

bosco / hip hop

took a year of hip hop, thankfully 2 other boys were in the class. this is after the year-end show.

origami again

koske was generous with his time,
showing bosco paper crafts

did i mention bosco is now a master of the algorithms needed to solve any and all rubik's cube (thanks to grade 5 teacher extraordinaire: Mr Sutherland)

fierce's jazz band

i took some video but my sound is crap.
here's a link to a couple of youtube ones:

tokyo blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCtXQJGQ_Q
fly me to the moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbiK4s6pKLw

the gang

we're lucky to have great neighbors just down the street -
 not only the same age and gender as pepper and fierce, but really nice kids

Black Static

pepper's theatre group

the cast of 'We've Just Gotta Do It"

igloo

a pretty sweet snow fort that rob and the boys made.
it's even got an ice window (freezing water in a garbage lid?)

messing around

pepper as 'boy'

 

a great cast of people!

costume construction

and if i was a good mom/wife, i'd have continued documenting rob's progress on bosco's costume...
BUT
i am not.
i am tired.  i cannot do everything that needs to be done.  i can't find my camera or, when i do, the batteries are dead.  i am a miserable failure at keeping on top of my life *

*written and posted on january 1st, 2014 after a full day and evening of loading photos and comments onto this blog and i'm only up to october...  sigh

zombie dinner

...and then there was the time we went to boston pizza in our zombie make-up...

zombie walk



pepper helps out mimi in a scooby-doo skit for the zombie walk

then she took a bite of rob...