look school is good for something

who would have thought that the most productive thing I have done this semester was to take a photo class. It has forced me to put down the cell phone, dust off the camera and get at least one good shot of each of my kids. (so the learning and blah blah blah other stuff was worthwhile too I suppose) None of these pictures are exactly class material but they make great blog material...and hey they weren't taken from my phone.

so first picture first. Katy ot an award at McGaugh's award ceremony today. Proving that she really is our child (since looks weren't enough for anyone) she got an award for Math. We are very proud of our future little brainiac

Next is Matt. He just got the go ahead today (a little black strip on his belt) to test in the belt test this month. He will be going for his green belt and in doing so will graduate from teh little ninja program. This was at class last week as he was learning a new wrist escape technique that includes throwing the person. Luckily he had a great teacher showing him, and we could almost call him spazzy like Matt with the way he was throing himself on the mat during Matt's throws
Johnny gets left out of all the new exciting things he is doing which is pretty nice for a change. No major issues to complain about except maybe the part where he thinks he is allowed an opinion. But he is adorable as always, speaking in sentences, we are workign on the potty training thing much to his dismay (though to be fair I'm not sure how his pants will stay up without the diaper helping). Oh well, our little talker did refer to himself by name today so that was pretty exciting.