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Friday, January 31, 2025

January 2025

 January went by quickly.

We had lunch with our Anasazi parent group: Anna, Jaime, Sean, Colleen, Dale, Stephanie, U, Me, Leissa

We did a lot of puzzles! Here are some of them.
Megan's Awakened Artifacts puzzle

After the "magic"

Me's new Christmas puzzle



Matthew

Megan

Artemis

Matthew continues to find interesting reading positions.



Matthew and Megan before their first dance.

We painted a wall in the eating area. The ladder is apparently a good place to read!



Italy Yum Box. One of our favorites overall.


Megan, Matthew, Me and U while doing our Belgium Yum Box.


Belgium was also well liked although they left out some key foods so we supplemented. Waffles?!? Speculoos?!? Not including frites can be forgiven since those would not ship well...

Megan, U and Me in our fort.

Matthew in his fort. He slept in it for about a week.

We visited the zoo.
Pacing Amur leopard. We also saw one of the lion cubs, which was right next door.

We wanted to join the orangutans in their napping.

Burrowing owls

Matthew and U did a Bob Ross painting activity at YMs one evening.

Bogle hosted their first robotics tournament! It was very well done and much more relaxed than most meets as there were only 20 teams. U helped with resetting the fields and so got some good pictures.
Matthew and some teammates before a match.

Megan and Maggie. Maggie helps mentor the robotics kids.

Milo and Megan with their robot.

Megan, Diego and Matthew with their robot in the pits (aka the cafeteria).

Milo, Megan and Matthew before a match.

Me's view of the tournament.

Matthew helped sort and label bins of food at AZCEND over the winter break. We keep finding his labeled bins.

Megan and Matthew playing Sriricha. Megan still dominates although Matthew had improved his skills!

Our Christmas card wall.


Friday, May 31, 2024

May Happenings

May was a busy month with all the end of year school activities plus Sarah's shower and birthday.

Megan flying through the air at a track meet.

Megan helped at a Kentucky Derby party.

Megan, Me and U

Megan and Me joined by a horse?!?

Megan playing in the final concert of the year.

Matthew playing with the jazz band.

Megan received the Outstanding Bandsman award.

Matthew and Megan were inducted into the National Junior Honor Society.

We got a new tree that the children have named Tiny Tree John. They often say goodbye to him as we leave and hello to him as we return.

Megan and Matthew went to Sean and Ethan's birthday party.

At the party, they pulled out instruments. Here Megan is playing a clarinet. Matthew played the French horn.

U and Me went to Serrano's for a combined Mother's Day/anniversary dinner.

Happy Mother's Day!

Me with her flowers.

We did a few puzzles including this one of the Polynesian Cultural Center.

Artemis, living a tough life...

We had a mac and cheese tasting dinner where we sampled three different types of mac and cheese.

The Bogle Band performed at the West Alley BBQ again. (They'd also performed here on New Year's Eve.)

Matthew and Christian at our house the day after the baby shower.

U and Artemis

Christian, Matthew, Sandy, Allison, Megan

Allison, U and Christian

Playing the hokey pokey and turning ourselves around....

Matthew continues to find new places to sleep.

A few memorable conversations/sayings:

Megan: Unless I'm going hallucinoid crazy.....


Megan and Matthew were discussing states they have been to one evening:
Matthew: I beat you to Nevada!
Megan: Oh yeah? Well I beat you to Arizona.
Ma: That’s because you were born first. 
M: Yeah, well technically I did beat you. 
They then proceeded to discuss how they stuck their legs out in the car when we were going to Canada so they could get to Canada quicker. They also commented that Matthew got to Hawaii sooner than Megan because he was sitting a row ahead of her on the plane.


After school one day:
Megan: ____ asked me if I thought any of the boys in our class are cute.
Matthew: Do you?
Megan: I asked if I could say my brother. 
Matthew: You think I'm cute?
Megan: Well I live with you and you aren't exactly hideous.


On the 3rd to last day of school, someone asked Megan: Do you know Matthew?
Megan: Which one?
Someone: Matthew O
Megan: Yes, I should know him. He’s my brother….
Someone: stares back blankly