Bubble Time

With Cuz No-No

Merry Christmas from the Frigs!

And, the fashion show...of course!

The Beautiful Ferrigno Women

Circa late '40s







Day of the Dead Skull by M

Tree Play

Sadly, our neighborhood lost another tree today.  The kids made the best of the downed tree however.  I love this about kids.  Enjoying the simple things in life.  Yay!

All Tied Up

Self Portrait by M

Did you catch the pink dangle earrings?  Well, at least in portrait she gets to wear them!!

3-0

M is playing soccer this Fall. Today they won, 3-0!  That's great for sure but I was most pleased with M's progress.  This was only the third game and she made tremendous improvement (the whole team did actually).  She was aggressive, she wasn't playing with her hair, she ran hard, she had some pretty fancy footwork...kicking the ball backwards, she made some awesome saves as goalie, she really had fun.  I saw a spark in her that I had never seen before.  Kind of cool to see!!

(Yes, that's a flower headband.  That's our fashion M!)

Guessing Game....want to play?

Can you guess what this invention is?

Thoughts yet?

Here's a hint...one word--delicious!

Another hint....this deliciousness requires churning!

Yep, it's Chris' Cycle Creamery

Ooooo, ooooo, GOOD!

Harbor Country

We spent the weekend in Harbor Country, MI with a good friend of ours at his family beach house.  It was super relaxing and the "second best vacation ever" according to M (what was first I asked.... Mexico, more, more, more, more).  Horseshoes, crochet, swinging, bike ride, walking along the beach collecting rocks, sand play, lots of water activities, crazy bloody marys.......simply perfect! 

Our ARose

Photo taken by M

100 meter Swim, 4k Bike & 1k Run

This was bound to happen, right? Over the weekend, M participated in her first triathlon—the Chicago Kids Triathlon. She was one of the youngest (they allow 7-14 year olds) but she put the training time in! Chris had her training for a good 3 weeks before the race. Brick workouts as the tri peeps call it. She biked around the neighborhood or to the pool or to the farmer’s market then each time she would immediately hope off the bike, put on her running shoes and sports head band then take off around the block a few times.

The triathlon didn’t work out quite as we expected. There was a little incident between the swim and getting into the transition for the bike. Actually, it was a BIG incident—she got LOST—for a good 10 minutes we couldn’t find her!! Needless to say, I was close to losing my mind but she was fine—she had walked out of transition to get some water at the finish line and could not find her way back to the transition area. With a lot of encouragement from Chris (I was holding on to her for dear life so I was not much help at this point), she stuck with it. She skipped the bike portion of the race (to which our little rule follower said “Is that allowed?”), put her running shoes on and FINISHED THE RACE!!!

It’s definitely a huge accomplishment for these kids to finish the race but I was even more proud that after having such a scary moment she was resilient. She completed what she set her mind on. That’s what I am most proud of.

CONGRATULATIONS, M. WE ARE SO INCREDIBABLY PROUD OF YOU!!!!