Lordy! Lordy! Look Who's Forty!

Time Out

After playing in two games over a Sat/Sun football weekend, Henry couldn't remember that he caught several passes in the Sunday game. So off to the doctor he went and was diagnosed with a mild concussion. So he's been on the sidelines. No practice. No games. The doctor says he'll be fine and can play again this coming weekend. As Bumpa used to say...'he cracked his coconut'.

The Never Ending Birthday Weekend

Siobhan's birthday celebration expanded beyond the weekend and ran into Monday evening. At this rate, her birthday events will overlap with Dwight's big 40th on Thursday!

Monday night, for the birthday dinner, we went to our favorite restaurant...Mama Mexico! Great food, a whole bunch of margarita flavors and the best part...Mariachi de Fernando Gonzalez, the finest mariachi band in all of New Jersey! Lucky for us, on request they performed a rousing rendition of Feliz Cumpleanos for Siobhan and Dwight. Muy Caliente!

Gifts!

Gifts come in many forms. On Sunday, for Siobhan, birthday gifts came in the material sense...a cell phone, jammies, the new nano, jewelry, perfume and cold hard cash. For Dwight and I the gift came in seeing our baby girl turn fourteen years old. We couldn't be more pleased and proud of the lovely young lady that our little Siobhan-y is becoming. Smart, beautiful, kind and goofy...the perfect combination.

Spooky Birthday Party

Today is Siobhan's 14th Birthday! Yesterday, we took five of her friends to a haunted house in the city. The theme this year was Nightmare Ghost Stories. The kids who were brave enough to stay inside (Henry and Sekou decided to turn around after the first room) went through about 15 rooms all with different nightmare themes and then through a maze where they were chased by ghosts. They all came out laughing and screaming! Afterwards, we came back to the house for pizza and cake...and more stories about what they saw inside the haunted house.

Our Smart Girl

A proud day today...Siobhan received an Academic Achievement Award for her excellent performance.

On her final report card for 7th grade, she had to have at least two A's in her core classes and no other grade lower than a B. She received an Honor pin as an award for achieving this goal. The ceremony at the school was nice...so many kids doing well...just over fifty of her classmates were honored for their excellent grades (there are about 200 students in her grade).

We're really happy that she's done so well at her new school and we know she will keep up the good work this year in 8th grade.

Oh! And we finally got one of those "My Child Is An Honor Student..." bumper stickers. I've been wanting one since she was in kindergarten. Yeah!