Robot Rally

Grandma sent robot masks. This is very appropriate because David John is fond of running up to the microphone at church and saying, "I am a baby robot" in a very good robot voice. It kills the primary children every time.

Running Scared

For the second year in a row, we helped out with the Zombie Run 5K. Technically it's a walk/shuffle/run. Anyway, I wasn't as involved with the planning as I was last year, but my boys and I, along with some friends, dressed up as zombies to scare the runners. This year, Tobias was old enough to help out so he also got zombified. Here we are ready to scare:

For the record, my boys did my makeup which is why I look more like a member of KISS and less like a zombie. Although, now that I'm making that comparison, maybe those two things aren't so disparate after all. Both are definitely creepy. I guess the primary difference is that zombies place a high value on brains.
Anyway, the boys had a blast hiding in the park behind our house and jumping out at runners as they came by. Like last year, some could not control their giggles at the sight of so many tiny zombies, especially Tobias. Others, I think, were genuinely creeped out by the idea of undead children. My friend Amelia thinks that next year we need to set up a cornfield behind our house for the kiddos to run out of. That would be pretty awesome. Then we'd really have them running scared.

Sorry, So Sorry

Poor Gabriel feels criticism intensely. Any slight correction to his behavior often ends in tears and then a sorry note. While I wish he wouldn't take things so hard, I do adore the sorry notes. I thought I would share two of my favorites.

I can't remember what either of these notes was apologizing for but I remember chuckling when I saw that this one had check marks. Gabriel's first grade teacher gives check marks when things are correct, so the check mark has replaced the heart as Gabriel's symbol of love and approval.

I also love what he wrote on the bottom. I'm pretty sure that last word is supposed to read "best" but it absolutely looks like "bust". Having nursed five children, if someone tells me "Mom's are the bust!" I'll take it as a compliment.

Here is another popular Gabriel writing technique: rainbow writing. It's adorable as is his spelling.

I am so glad you appreciate my "kooking". I hope that you still like my kooking when you are a teenager and having a kooky mom can be embarrassing.

Thank you for the darling notes, Gabe. I'm sorry you are stuck with me for a mom, so sorry.