A Week of Random

In a week that is fairly quiet and low key (a rare for us), it's a little hard to come up with exciting blog fodder come Sunday. However, I've never been at a loss for words so I'm sure that I'll come up with something to babble about.

I am now a football player. That's me #26 pictured below putting on the hurt!!

Okay, its at least true that I'm playing football but its flag football in Mentor's new employee league. We had our first practice Thursday and by virtue of us receiving 3 extra points if one of the females is involved in TD's, I may get to play a little quarterback. Our first game is on Tuesday and should be fun.

Luis was invited to play indoor soccer a couple weeks ago. After 30 seconds on the pitch, he pulled his calf muscle. This is what his calf looks like today, a week and a half later...

Believe it or not it is getting better slowly but it is quite the array of colors in the meantime.

Mason still loves school. He and Siena were drawing and painting up a storm this week. Here's a Mason self-portrait:

And he's learned to write his name.

Here's the picture he was most proud of:

Its a dragster...what did YOU think it was...

We had a nice dinner at Yaya and Papa Ron's where the kids got to play and play. The only downside to school for Mason is not getting to spend his Friday's playing up at Yaya's house.

More Movies Cousin Craig Will Never See Review:

This film was made by the same producers as Little Miss Sunshine. While Little Miss Sunshine was a better movie, this one still receives high marks. Luis thought it was a bit of a chick flick, which is true, but that didn't diminish his enjoyment (Luis likes chick flicks). The premise is great - 2 sisters start up a business cleaning crime scenes and deal with their own personal messes at the same time. Enjoyable throughout and well acted. Overall rating - B.

Where to start with this - movie takes place in tunnels below Moscow where some wayward people live. Not sure if the director thought it was artistic or if it was budget issues but there were a lot of the same shots used throughout. There was also zero character development (is that where the zero in the title came from?). To top it off, I never really knew what the movie was about or what was going on. In all, don't waste your time. D

The joy of movies is that each are wholly different and independent. After the disaster which was Moscow Zero, we watched Adventureland, by the makers of Superbad. This was a fun movie, set back in 1987 (we can relate). The main cast are employees of a theme park in Pittsburg over one summer during college. There's pot, dates, breakups, and humor. Definitly a winner. B+.

Note: I thought I'd start assigning grades to movies as a way to quantify them better than just saying "it was good".