The "Bragging on my Kids" thread

“Ana told me this morning that the honey bun she was eating was yummy, but not as yummy as the cabbage she had yesterday.

LOL!”

“That's great, but what about the cabbage farts?”

“As promised, I put a few photos and a video of BowlderSon's Honors Recital piano thingee on webshots - check it out if interested....

http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/558251463FPQxwi”

“What a kid!”

“FREAKING FANTASTIC!!! And what a great smile on that kid, lights up his whole face! You have a beautiful family BowlderMan.”

“My son graduated from the Phoenix Fire Academy today. He is not a desk type, never has been, his mother and I had him set to go to CSU at Ft Collins, but he changed his mind, said he wanted to be a fireman, and today he is.

Really makes the nest feel empty, his sister graduated from college just about a year ago, and now he is pretty well set in a career he wants. I'm feeling like I got the long straw in the kid department.

Thanks for letting me brag!”

“Congrats shawn!”

“We have invited friends and family to see Linus in Bye Bye Birdie next weekend at the high school.

His part is minor, that of a cop or something like that.
This boy ain't no singer and though he is a fearless dancer, he ain't the prettiest thing on two feet.”

“Congratulations Shawn!

Saw my 19 y/o son do a solo concert last night. No publicity, bad weather, 6 dollar cover and 40 people showed. He's begining to get a following, has an agent - writing most of his material, but did 4 covers (Velvet Underground Femme Fatale, Beatles: Little Pigies, some Tori Amos and something by - I think - Motel Motel). He's going to try to record a better CD to sell when he play - he's hooked up with a garage type label (actually I think its run out of a basement). He continues to do very well in college - I do not know how he finds the time.”

“Nice!”

“Congrads, shawn.”

“Congrats!”

“Been a long time since I updated anything here, but wanted to share with old TT friends my excitement about my daughter's success -- she's graduating from U-Mich in a month, made Phi Beta Kappa, and has accepted a full fellowship to Cornell University for her Ph.D.

Pedxing, I know what you mean about how they find the time -- my daughter has been involved in so much over her college career and still performs at such a high level, something I never managed to balance well back in the ol' hippy college days of my youth.”

“We are going to see Linus, and the rest of the kids, in Bye Bye Birdie tonight.
Linus plays two small parts in this one, that of one of the reporters hounding Conrad Birdie and of a stage hand on the Ed Sullivan Show.

We were there for opening night on Thursday and the kids did a great job.
Several of the girls are very good vocalists.

The orchestra....over twenty pieces.....did a fantastic job with some of the most difficult music there is.
This stuff changes tempo and is all over the place somewhat like old cartoon music.”

“How was the show MarkO?”

“Yeah how was it? I liked that movie. Even changed the words to one of the songs for the twiglets, LOL...

Next weekend I go see neices and nephews in Into the Woods which should be cool.

Austin spent this morning curled up in my lap whining about how school is no fun and they have to go almost every single day! I finally get him to school and his teacher had to pry him off me to get him into class...tonight I'll cuddle him to bits...he is so over tired from his weekend at mom's...”

“Closing night really rocked!

These kids worked their tails off and had a lot of fun in the process.

I had never seen Bye Bye Birdie and didn't realize just how much they spoofed on Elvis and American culture of the '50s.
The "Ed Sullivan Song" is hysterical and the "MacAfee Family" singing it was a hoot!
There is a scene with Conrad Birdie singing "Sincere" with a stage full of people in full gyration.
Toward the end of the song small groups of dancers would swoon and fall down each time he swings his pelvis in their direction until the last dorky boy standing goes down to end the scene.”

“Tomorrow afternoon there's a ceremony at BowlderSon's school - he made the honor roll again this past trimester. All A's except for one A-. Of course, he got the A- in the elective he had for the term: baseball. Go figure....”

“A-

well i guess that is good.
good for him!!”

“a pic of my daughter....
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/youngathrt2002/detail?.dir=3b2a&.dnm=9d2bre2.jpg&.src=ph
last edited: 5/01/07 7:56:07 PM”

“Cute, like her Mom.”

“Cameron just received an invitation for to Enter Miss South Carolina Teen. YEAHHH!!


I am so excited. I wonder why he got mad at it?”

“LMAO!!!


I guess he really is a pretty boy, huh?”

“LMAO that is too funny!

hey gem what email addy are you using these days? send me an email I have a question to ask ya!”

“LMAO, I thought it was funny too.”

“gem i think I was using a different email. sorry”

“Rachel was in a talent show last night, played her guitar and sung a song that she wrote...and she brought home the first place trophy. :-)”

“Congrats Fritz!!! she wrote a song? that's pretty impressive.

My son doesn't want to be little Miss SC thou.”

“Well I guess it's time to brag alittle. Our son Alex is graduating from Cal Poly San luis Obispo with his Bachelors in Enviornmental Engineering. He's been accepted for an internship with the water board in SLO and also in the masters program at Cal Poly. What a life. Here is some shots of Alex doing some enviornmental research.
http://wannabp.smugmug.com/gallery/2376853#161966235”

“Congrats, 'scaper!! And wbp, too of course!!

Cal Poly is a great school, especially for engineering. My sis majored in bio there, and an uncle in some kind of ag field - they both loved it!!”

“Hey that's great.


Our oldest daughter was elected Prom Queen at her senior prom Saturday night. That's in a graduating class of about 900.”

“Here's my other baby girl, graduating from high school last night....

”

“Her mother must be the good looking one...

heh heh!

Congrats!”

“lol at Stew! Congrats Fritz!

I have another 16 years for that.”

“congrats!”

“Great picture, Fritz. Congratulations!”

“:-)”

“Besides finishing his first year of middle school (with all A's and B's) in our new location, my son's Little League baseball team (their first year in the division) just finished in first place during the regular season and also finished first in their post-season tournament! Only three losses on the year.”

“Impressive record !”

“http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070827/water.shtml

My baby boy!!!!!!!


hugs!!!”

“Good looking kid.”

“http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22377952-13762,00.html

Shock: kids smarter than chimps
By Will Dunham
September 07, 2007 09:22am

IN another case of researchers reporting the bleeding obvious, European scientists have found that children are smarter than chimpanzees.
.....snip.....”

“the tests were "culturally biased"”

“LOL”

“My kids are wonderful, a real credit to their species!!

Let's keep this thread on a positive note.”

“Some of you know that my son pretty much zoned out his freshman year in high school last year. Well, after lots of discussion and an immeasurably boring summer (thanks to parental CONTROL), he currently has STRAIGHT A's, a TERRIFIC ATTITUDE and is showing signs of being headed in the RIGHT DIRECTION.

He's enjoying school and is proud of himself! (as he well should be).

I couldn't be any more pleased right now!”

“:-)”

“Great, Roam!!

BowlderSon will be attending a brief ceremony today to recognize the kids who made the honor roll during the 3rd trimester of last school year. He's 3 for 3 so far!”

“BoulderSon is in his 3rd trimester?

WOW!”

“when is he due?”