Recapping the Month of May

And there's a lot of ground to cover.  

Glover School had their annual Variety Show.  Heather and her friend Alyssa and some other kid played Camp Town Races.

You may wonder why Heather and her classmates are wearing graffiti painted outfits.

It's because they did this dance. The boys in the class did not show up for the performance.

Wayne's Lake Region Concert Band and Jazz Band had a concert. Here he is with the jazz band playing something you may recognize.

Cole and friends at a track meet at Lake Region against North Country.

I left work early to pick Heather and friends up from school, then go see some of Cole's meet, and then take them all to their softball game in Glover.

I like the view from the ball field.

I can't remember who they were playing against. I think they won this one.  

The OCSU (Orleans Central Supervisory Union) Middle School track team participated in the U32 invitational.  Cole placed 1st over all in the 100m dash and third overall in the 1500m run, but achieved his personal best time of 4:38.  

Cole came in first place, overall, for the 100m dash. See below:

Cole also finished up his AAU Basketball season.  He worked hard, learned a lot, and became a greatly improved player.

Heather and I visited Shadow Lake Beach for the first time this season. No swimming, but a picnic and playing in the sand.

She looked very grown  up and ladylike at Uncle Jake's funeral.

This year all 3 kids marched in the Memorial Day Parades with their school bands. They were all in the Orleans parade. Then Wayne and the high school band went to the Barton parade while Cole and Heather went with the middle school band to the Albany parade and ceremony.

As you can probably tell, Cole was completely uncooperative with this photo, refusing to "put the saxophone together" which really just means putting on the mouth piece. Don Whipple does all the sports photos, but the school never has band photos done, so I did it myself.

Wayne with his high school band.

And Cole and Heather with their middle school band.

Wayne won some awards at Lake Region's Academic Award Night.

And last, but not least, all that hard work fundraising all year long, beginning last summer at Glover Day, is finally paying off, as Cole and his classmates embarked yesterday, on their 8th grade class trip to Boston.  Here are some photos that were sent to me of the stops they made along the way at Monkey Trunks and FunSpot.

Today, Friday, they will go to the New England Aquarium, Fenway Park, and see a Blue Man Group performance.  Tomorrow,  Hard Rock Cafe, Duck Tour, and Codzilla Speed Boat ride, and Escape Room.  Sunday return to VT with a stop at Canobie Lake along the way.

8th Grade Glover School Graduation Thursday evening.

Finally Enjoying Some Springtime.

Heather was happy to say good-bye to her cast.

 She has moved on from basketball to softball.

 She got her cast off just in time for team photos with Whipple Studio.  All the teams in the league gather at Barton School and Don Whipple and his assistants wrangle everyone into some sort of organized line-up and get it all done in a little over an hour.  From here, Heather and 2 of her classmates/teammates/band mates rushed off to marching band practice for the upcoming Memorial Day Parades.

 Wayne has decided to try his hand at track and field rather than baseball this year for spring sports.  Here he is at Lyndon Institute doing the long jump. 

 And here at the Coaches vs. Cancer Twilight Meet at South Burlington High School.  Their coach prepares the relay team for the 4x800.

 After his 800 (2 times around the track) Caleb Thaler hands off the baton to Wayne.

 Finishing up.  You can follow Lake Region's results by clicking here at Athletic.net.  

And Cole was featured in the Record News for his achievements in fitness and sports.

And just to show this silly photo - before Heather got her cast off, she got to play trumpet in the spring concert with it still on!

Highlights of Cole's AAU Season (so far)

Heather is done for the season due to her broken wrist, but Cole still has a couple more tournaments. Here's a little video of the season so far.

An Early End to AAU Basketball

Saturday morning began bright and early in our house. Well, early but not so bright as we were dealing with a springtime storm of snow, sleet, and freezing rain.  I headed to Lamoille Middle School with Cole for his 8:00 a.m. tournament game and a little later, Wes set out with Heather to Cambridge for her 9:15 game.  (Every weekend brings 8 games, between the two of them)  After Cole's game, I headed to Cambridge to try to catch the last half of Heather's game.  I arrived to find them winning by a landslide.  Wes told me that Heather had fallen hard and awkwardly and hurt her wrist, but was back in the game.  She couldn't catch or dribble the ball, but was running around anyway, blocking her opponents.  After the game we doctored her up with some advil and wrapped  it up. She didn't seem to be in too much pain, but something about the way she was carrying and protecting her arm seemed very familiar to me (mountain bike accident 17 years ago). Wes went on to Cole's next game while Heather and I spent the rest of the day in the ER in Morrisville.

 She had indeed fractured her wrist.  You can see the crack in the x-ray below.

 It looks like the fracture may involve the growth plate so the doctor said she should see an orthopedic specialist, just to keep an eye on things, within 7 - 10 days.  For now, she's wearing a very itchy fiberglass splint, and then, after seeing the specialist, they will put a real cast on it.

Today it seems to be hurting more than yesterday and she also has a miserable cold, so she's feeling pretty awful.  She did manage to rally herself  into going to the 2 games she could not participate in, and cheer on her teammates. Luckily, she and the rest of the family are on vacation this week (but not me) so she can relax until we get her in to see the specialist.

Happy Easter, Happy April Fool's Day, and of Course, Happy Birthday Cole!

Heather and I did some late night egg dying after getting home from all the basketball tournaments (see previous post) Were were not at our creative best.

Easter morning baskets.

We had Easter dinner with Grammy, Edwin, Sandy, and Elijah.  Heather and Elijah had an egg hunt. We had Cole's birthday cake. Joanie was at Laura's surprise party weekend, but she had left this fancy candle for Cole's cake

Can't believe Cole is 14!