Logical question

"Why do they not fight on the sidewalk?"

That's what Matthew asked when told that in Romeo and Juliet, the Montagus and Capulets were in trouble for fighting in the streets.

Then, giggling, he said "When I grow up, I'm going to name one of my kids Romeo." And then, after a second's thought, "But I hope he will not be so angry and doing all those things to get in trouble."

Saturday

Boy Scouts motorboating:

on Lake Ogawara

Waiting for the boat to come in

Grade schoolers play-ing:

Little Stinkers ;-)

Nobility and Royal Guards

The cast

Skunk #7

Guard #1

Merry players

Name day dinner:

Boy, Katie, your burger sure looks good!

Tuckered out!

What we're up to this week

John, Tommy, and Patrick are climbing Mt. Fuji with the scout troop at this very moment. They climb overnight and hopefully reach the summit near sunrise. John called from the 7th station mostly to see if his phone worked. I was grateful to hear from him. They are climbing well so far--keeping the group together.

This morning, Katie and Joseph tried out for the Missoula Children's Theater production of Robin Hood. They both made the play. Hooray! They prepare and perform the play in 6 days. The kids audition on Monday, practice daily all week to learn lines, songs, and dances and perform twice on Saturday.

Matthew, Meghan, and I get to take them to rehearsals and watch the play on Saturday. I think we will have to make several playground visits this week to compensate Matthew for his lack of Joseph's companionship. It will be nice to play with just the two littlest ones for a few days. Hopefully, I will be able to get some good photos of Saturday's performance.

Spirit

Yesterday, Katie and Joseph auditioned on base for the Missoula Children's Theater production of Rumplestiltskin. Joseph made the play. Katie did not. Afterwards, she was disappointed, but did not show it in front of Joseph and congratulated him heartily. During a private moment later, she said to me, "I wonder what I'm going to do this week."
Then she set about choosing a play of her own to do at home (with all her brothers, of course). She spent the afternoon hunting for a script on our shelves and online and finally settled on The Wolf of Gubbio, a story of St. Francis of Assisi, because it has a lot of male roles, but not too many for her ready-made cast. She made copies of the script for each actor and arranged a practice schedule for the next two weeks. She wants to make this a last family play before Tommy's departure.
That's my !

She found the play in this book, from Catholic Heritage Curricula: