The Running Man

The Running Man
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This was true is days long past, and it is still true now: Jen's favorite time of the day is when the boys arrive home from school. They run, full speed, off the bus to our doors and their faces always have huge smiles. It makes her happy that their happy, but also knowing that the home she has created for them is a place they want to be.
RAP (5.10.2007)

Guf

Bed Buddies
Originally uploaded by Jagrap

Alex may have mentioned this to me before, and I have passed on to you if he did, but regardless I still want to share the discussion we had last night. Alex and I were shopping at Krogers and he started describing a place where souls come from before the are born. This idea is actually pretty ancient, and it is ussually called the well of souls or the Guf. He says he has been thinking about this for a while and as far as I can tell nothing really prompted it.

What I am impressed with is that this a serious point of religious philosophy to derive on your own, let alone just to be contemplating at age 7. One of nicknames for him is "Father Alex," because he always seemed to be very spiritual. I doubt that he will actually become a preist, because he is so ornery, but aren't irish preists supposed to be a wee bit ornery.
RAP (5.7.2007)
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Spiderman 3

Spiderman 3
Originally uploaded by Jagrap

Jenny thinks that John Schleter's little sister, Grace, has crushes on both our boys. When she asked Alex if he thought that Grace liked him he said "of course she does." That sort of bravado was unexpected coming from Alejandro when talking about the fairer sex, so Jenny inquired why he thought she did. He informed us that some sort of Magic Top told him that "over 1,000" girls have crushes on him. So Jenny asked if she was number 1,000 and he pointed out to her that it was OVER 1,000 girls, so Jens insists that Grace is 1,001.
RAP (5.2.2007)

I Ate It All

I Ate It All
Originally uploaded by Jagrap

Michael went to his first sleep over party Saturday night. His best friend, John Schleter, was allowed to pick one friend to spend the night and he chose Michael. This made Michael (and Michael's mom) very happy. Before the sleepover, Alex joined Michael and John in the early part of the evening at the local Charles Edward Cheese franchise. John's parents gave him a Nintendo DS for his birthday, so our boys wore their Mario shirts to celebrate!
RAP (5.2.2007)
P.S. On the day this card ships, I will have camped out in the wee hours of the morning trying to get table for the 4th of July.

First Hit

First Hit
Originally uploaded by Jagrap

Unlike last year, Michael is part of the younger group on his team (a 3rd Grader on a team with 4th Graders -- last year he was a 2nd Grader on a team with 1st Graders). Combine that with his slow starts, the early part of the season could be rough. However, I am optimistic that he will put it all together by the second half season, just like he did last year. We have already been to the batting cages, fixed up the pitching machine and are even using the Wii to get his batting skills up where they belong. RAP (5.1.2007)
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Bed Buddies

Bed Buddies
Originally uploaded by Jagrap

Unfortunately, the boys have been under the weather lately. Alex woke up vomiting Friday morning and missed the going to school that day. Fourty eight hours later, Michael also become ill in the darkness of night. He will most likely miss third grade Monday, but is doing better this afternoon. They really have not been all that sick this year, so it was bound to happen eventually. I just hope it stops with Michael!
RAP (4.25.2007)

Unit 1 And 2

Unit 1 And 2
Originally uploaded by Jagrap

I am fairly certain that I have mentioned a book called "The Mighty Skullboy Army." It is a humorous little graphic novel that has captured the boys fancy as of late. The premise of the work is that is that there is an elementary school villain who hates school and has two henchmen. There names are Unit 1 and Unit 2, although Unit 1 chooses the name "Mr. Awesome" for himself. Did I mention, that the henchmen are a Robot and Monkey? Yes, the two ingredients needed in almost any comedic recipe! It most certainly has our guys enthralled, so I ordered T-shirts from the author for the them. They love them, it supports the small author and the boys are wearing something rather unique. Win-Win-Win. RAP (4.24.2007)