HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

In honor of Father's day, Grayson answered the following questions about his Dad:

What is your Dad's name? Paul
How old is he? 4 year's old
How tall is he? 4 feet
How much does he weigh? 40lbs
What color is his hair? Greyish
What does he do around the house? Clean
What is his favorite drink? Beer
What is his favorite food? Hot dogs & hamburgers
What is his favorite TV show? Madagascar
Where does he like to go? To work
What is his favorite hobby? Playing outside with me

And... for the grand finale and my personal favorite...
What is his favorite sport? OLD MAN SOFTBALL :)

We hope all the fathers in our life have a spectacular father's day. Here's to you!~

6th Grade Science Fair

The sixth Grade Science Fair is being held TODAY Wednesday 6/15 in the Roderick Cafeteria from 12:45pm to 2pm. Hannah has done an experiment to determine whether or not there is a difference between memory in boys and girls. Her data and results will be displayed at the fair today. If you are in the area, please pop in to support her.

Maegan will be doing a poetry reading this Friday 6/17 in the Vogel auditorium. She will be presenting two poems.

First Annual LAX Jamboree in Wrentham

Both girls will be playing in the first annual jamboree hosted at Rice Complex in Wrentham. The jamboree is scheduled for THIS Saturday 6/18 and games are as listed below:

9am Hannah's team v. Shrewsbury Field #5
9am Maegan's team v. Franklin Field #3
10am Hannah's team v. Triboro Field #4
10am Maegan's team v. Holliston Field #2
12pm Maegan's team v. Milford Field #3
2pm Hannah's team v. Franklin Field #5

As you can see with these games plus the AAA All Star Game... we have a busy day! If you are able to join us, maybe we can circle back to the house between games and move some furniture to the POD. I'm starting to wonder with all these activities how we'll ever be ready for the big move!

Tommy's Summer Ball Schedule

First, CONGRATULATIONS to Tommy for being selected to play in the AAA All Star baseball game THIS Saturday JUNE 18th 6pm at McMorrow field. Great season Tommy!

Second, Tommy has made the last minute decision to play summer ball. His schedule is as shown below:

6/20 5:30pm @ McMorrow
6/22 5:30pm @ FRA Fletcher 2 in Franklin
6/23 5:30pm @ Rice Complex
6/27 5:30pm @ Rice Complex
6/30 5:30pm @ ATT Pocin Hewitt 3 in Attleboro
7/1 5:30pm @ Norfolk
7/6 5:30pm @ STO Pushee in Stoughton
7/7 5:30pm @ Rice Complex
7/8 5:30pm @ McMorrow
7/13 5:30pm @ EAS Jaycee in Easton
7/15 5:30pm @ Rice Complex
7/20 5:30pm @ NOR Burchill B in Norton

5th Grade Invention Convention

The 5th Grade invention convention is being held TODAY (Tuesday JUNE 14)from 12:45 to 2pm in the Roderick cafeteria. Tommy and Matthew Richards have developed and built (all on their own) a walker/wheel chair supreme with a built in cooler along with other amenities. If you are in the area and want a viewing into the creative minds of fifth graders, stop by.

Hannah's Elementary School Graduation

Hannah's elementary school graduation ceremony will be held on MONDAY June 20th at 12:30pm. Weather permitting, the ceremony will be held outside in the space behind the Delaney school. In the case of inclement weather, the program will be held in the Gibbons Gym, in which case ONLY TWO FAMILY MEMBERS MAY ATTEND. Parking will be difficult, so if you plan to join the festivities; give yourself a little extra time. My how the years go by...

Art Festival on the Common

Enjoy two short video's of Maegan's performance on the common today during the Art Festival, (taken from my i phone and loaded on to you tube...)

Our NEW HOME!!

Paul and I are finally able to comfortably announce to the world that we have our new home!! We will be selling our existing home and moving in to the new home on June 24,2011: proud members of the Wompanog Estates community!! The children are thrilled as they already know a lot of friends in the neighborhood and I am thrilled because I don't have to drive to go on my morning walks anymore!

Thank you to all those who helped us get to this point; our parents, Brian Ambrose from New Horizon Mortgage,and Suzanne Peterson & Mary Ellen Russell from Page Realty. We couldn't have done it without you all! We expect to have the final closing commitment letter by this afternoon and we will close June 24th. Thanks in advance to those who show up to help us move, we will feed you well and work you hard LOL :)

Rockin' Wrentham Royals!!

CONGRATULATIONS to the Wrentham Royals who came from behind in the KP CUP and made it all the way to the semi finals. The boys ALL played their hearts out. We were honored that Tommy was awarded MVP in the final game by the Wrentham Dodgers. The Royals fought for the title from 12pm to 6pm today.They were bumped from the run for the CUP in a heartbreaking 7:6 game against the Dodgers after three fantastic games. The whoo hoo Royal's moms' thoroughly embarassed but motivated their boys and left with hoarse voices and sore throats, (Mrs. Flaherty perhaps the loudest though they didn't award any sideline MVP's...); but the moms had as much fun if not more than the boys :)

Maegan and Hannah each won their respective LAX games today and Maegan scored! Go team FLAHERTY!!

Thanks to Grandpa, Grammy, Addisyn and Kaitlin for coming up to the fields and cheering the Royals on!

KP Cup

Tommy's team played their initial two baseball games today in the KP Cup. They lost the first 16-12 and and won the second 13-10. They are advancing to eliminations tomorrow and will be playing the Norfolk Muck Dogs at noon on McMorrow Field (next to the library at Sweatt Fields). Join us if you can.

Hannah's soccer team slaughtered North Attleboro this morning a lot to zero, (I lost track toward the end). Paul and Tommy's LAX team also won 11-3. So, all in all it was a good day!

Thanks to all those who helped celebrate Grayson's fourth birthday last night. He had a blast and I hope you did too :) This morning i mentioned that I heard the basement was trashed, he responded, "Well, yeah it is. Colby did the first part and then I decided we'd call my party the "messy" party so I did the rest and it was really fun. So, you can just leave it the way it is because I want to play with that stuff some more..." Great...

Grandparent's Day!

Grandparents Day will be held on Friday, May 27th. Guests will be invited into the classrooms from 12:00 PM. – 1:00 PM Immediately following the classroom visit, the annual Memorial Day program will be held outside behind the Delaney School at 1:15 PM (weather permitting). Shuttle buses from Lake Pearl will be available beginning at 11:30 AM to bring guests to the schools as parking is extremely limited. At the conclusion of the Memorial Day program, buses will return to Lake Pearl.

I will likely be helping at the school and can "shuttle" our grandparents to and from if you wish; or there is usually parking up around the town commons and it's a short walk from there. We will be taking the children immediately after the Memorial Day presentation and heading for a relaxing weekend on Cape, (hopefully not hitting too much traffic & praying for sunshine). The children are looking forward to showing off their classrooms. Please let me know who will be able to attend and I'll "assign" you to one of the children :)

Home Run Derby TONIGHT

We were honored to find out that:

"After a detailed statistical analysis of slugging percentages, Nick and I have selected Matt and Tommy to represent the Royals in the home run derby. Tell the boys we are very proud of them and wish them good luck in the competition." - Mike Norris

The derby is TONIGHT Thursday May 19th 2011 in Plainville. Directions as information is as follows:

There are a total of three rounds. First round you get 10 pitches, from a pitcher of your choice (fathers, whomever). If you make it to the next round you get 5 pitches. You also get points for hits out of the infield, so it does not need to be a home run to get a point

Directions to the Plainville Athletic field as if you were at the Sweatt complex in Wrentham:

From Randall Rd. take a left onto Route 1A (South St). Follow for 4 1/2 miles (Wrentham Outlets to your right is the halfway point). Take a left onto School St. (at Cumberland Farms) and follow to the end. Take a left onto George St. Fields are just ahead on the right side of the street.

Tommy would love your support. We've had a virus in the house, so we may not all be able to make it out to support him. I'd love it if someone brought a video camera; maybe we could even share the film up here on the blog and we who stay home will get to see how he does. CONGRATULATIONS AND GOOD LUCK TOMMY!!!