Ryan's First Grade Music Program: The Share Bears

Ryan had his First Grade Music Program tonight - The Share Bears.  Sean had this cool banner printed up at his workplace :)

Here is Ryan as a black bear

Trever on the left and Keaton on the right both had speaking parts

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That's Jade behind Ryan and to the right

 

  

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This is Caroline, Ryan's girlfriend :)

Eric wasn't very impressed with the show

Mikayla, one of Ryan's classmates also had a speaking part.  She is such a sweet girl and always says hi to me :)

 

  

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Ha - this is one of Ryan's friends doing the air guitar

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Mikayla on the left, and another friend of Ryan's, Olivia is in the big fuzzy ears in the middle

The bears are hibernating.  The kid with the "B" shirt was excellent.  I fully expect he will be the lead in all the high school plays :)  What a ham

 

  

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Brayden the sad bee

 

  

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Mr. Green, the principal - he is wonderful

Brayden and Ryan

The boys with Mrs. Durand, their teacher

Mommy wearing the bear hat

My Silly Boys

Ryan and Eric got "nerd-glasses" from Grammy and Papa.  Here's Ryan :)  (Don't mind the pizza on the face)



Here is Eric wearing Mommy's slippers (on the wrong feet)

Pinewood Derby

So anybody that thinks the pinewood derby is for the kids has never been a Dad. This is supposed to be a bonding experience between a Dad and his son. It was like pulling teeth to get Ryan to help me build his car. He did help me decide on the design but even that was not an easy task. I spent several evenings and countless hours sanding and shaping his car. Then I spent several days getting the right paint job. When it was all said and done I was pretty pleased with how my...err Ryan's...car turned out. Deep red metallic with several coats of high gloss "wet look" clear coat on top. I even put three coats of the clear coat over the stickers. Ryan was in lane #3 of the very first heat. He was so proud of his car and very excited to see it race. His official weigh in weight was 4.98oz, 5oz is the max allowed so I got pretty close.







So here is the video of the first heat. Watch the excitement as Ryan's car take a big lead and wins the first heat by a car length...


...the only problem is the timer didn't run. This run didn't count. The fiddled with the timer for a bit and thought they had it figured out so they raced the cars again...this time Ryan's car came in second. Hmmm. Oh wait, the timer didn't work again!!! After several more minutes of fiddling with the timer and running some test cars they got the timer figured out. Now for Ryan's third trip down the track in the first heat. Ryan's car got third place. :(

So now Ryan is ready to run his second heat. 3rd place again.



Here is the third heat, 4th place.



4th heat, 3rd place.



Ryan won the award for the fastest looking car. I guess that is another way of saying, Wow your car looks fast, too bad it was so slow. :D



Here is a closeup of Finn McMissile. This was Trever's car and this was a tie breaker for first place. The black car was Jordan Love's car. Both of these cars were really fast all day.



Of course all the boys got a pinewood derby medal.



Ryan and Trever being goofy while showing off their certificates. Trever won 1st place in his den and 2nd place overall. Ryan won 2nd in his den (not too big a feat since his den is only 3 boys).





Trever with his 2nc place trophy. The top 3 cars in our pack will go on to regionals.



Ryan proudly displaying his car and all the hard work he...err I...put into it.





What a ton of fun we all had this year. Looking forward to next year. I certainly learned some things I need to do differently next year, not the least of which is to make Ryan do most of the work. I will spend countless creating my own car and enter it into the open division.

Christmas Day

Merry Christmas from the Langes!  Grammy and Papa stayed overnight on Christmas Eve so they could be ready bright and early for Christmas morning.
Here are Ryan and Eric coming down the stairs - I think they were pretty happy with what Santa brought for them :)

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Ryan got the Lego Police Station

Eric got a new Thomas Train track

All the gifts :)

Eric opening his new Cars 2 Geotrax - yes it is ALL about trains for Eric

Ryan opening his new toy guitar

Mommy picked this out for Ryan so we can sort all of his Legos.  Have to admit I wanted to open this a few days ago when I was rebuilding all his Lego City sets.  It would have come in handy!

This is our motto

GeoTrax track from Uncle Jon, Aunt Linda, Nate, Chris and Jason

A new game for his computer from Grandma Jean and Uncle Leroy

Woohoo! another Lego set!  This is from Grandma Jean and Grandpa Leroy.  It was the first thing we built Christmas afternoon.

More Thomas trains from Uncle Jon, Aunt Linda, Nate, Chris and Jason

A couple of new games for Ryan from Aunt Terry and Uncle Peter

Oh look.  More things to build....

Angry Birds!

 

Grammy and Papa made two baskets for the boys :)  
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Eric and his new firefighter outfit from Aunt Terry and Uncle Peter

Ryan made this cool bag and ornaments (next picture) at school

Eric made this ornament at school

Eric wanted to take a nap with his new jayhawk things

Ryan and Eric both got silly nerd glasses in their stockings (but Ryan wouldn't let me take a picture)

We head out Wednesday afternoon to Grandma and Grandpa's house for another celebration :)

Dutton Family Christmas

All the young ones around the tree.





Eric was making silly faces.



After presents Papa took all the kiddos for a ride in the trailer. This was a big hit as always.



This shirt was from my folks. It says "Does this suit make me look fat?". I siad it wasn't the suit it is the fat belly inside the suit that makes me look fat. :D

Visit with Santa

Grandma Jean came to visit this past weekend and joined us to visit Santa.  Ryan brought his list with him, which Santa read then handed it back telling Ryan he had it memorized.  He then discussed Thomas trains with Eric.  Oh how I love Santa!  The boys had a great time and both got to have a nice conversation with Santa.  The excitement just keeps building in the Lange household.