Day 265

Blue is not a flavor. We've had this discussion before...

Day 258

Much like Thursday nights are reserved for speedskating practice, Friday nights have become gymnastics nights. Boys Gold class is on Friday night, and Ben's group works on the same type of things that the boys' competitive team works on. He's almost ready to move up to Team, which means our lives and schedules are about to get all kinds of crazy!

Day 249

This is very often his preferred position for watching television. Such is life with a boy that is part monkey.

Day 248

The Three Musketeers before gymnastics class. They always have a great time together.

Day 228

Ben's gymnastics coach had a birthday last week, but we weren't able to get together with his classmates to celebrate properly until tonight. The three of them really push each other and have a great time working out together, and hopefully will have time to see each other outside of class this summer, figuring out ways to torture their coach! Happy Belated Birthday, Josh!

Day 203

Friday night @ gymnastics, trying to master the back handspring. Not quite there yet...

Day 168

Finally remembered to take the camera with me to gymnastics tonight. Sadly I couldn't get very many shots of the monkey in motion, or at least not many that I was happy about. Thankfully, the boy's skills on the apparatus are improving faster than my photography skills!

Day 121

"B" is for Benjamin, bending his back...

Day 44

Had a chance to spend a few minutes at the playground this afternoon; had I known this, I would have brought the good camera. That'll learn me to leave it behind.

Day 34

Lockers at the gym. Played around with background/foreground focus and such. Kinda cool. I feel like I'm still learning what my camera's buttons are after five years, and I'm slowly starting to remember all those things I learned about in my RTF classes back in college. If I get inspired, I might dig through some old boxes and find my textbooks with all the stuff about f-stops and shutter speeds, etc. Then again, it might be easier to go to half-price books and get a book that's not 20 years old...

Day 27

 

Another shot from the gymnastics class. Considering we're here twice a week and at the rink twice a week, be prepared to see a lot of these.

Day 22

 

Birthday Boy at his party. The gymnastics place is his favorite spot on earth right now, so it was perfect to have his friends there for an afternoon of jumping around like monkeys. And, he collected food and donations for the local animal shelter to boot.

Day 20

 

The boy at gymnastics class. He's getting ready for his evaluation into the boys' Gold class, at which point he will start preparing for competition.