Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Usual Suspects - And A Birthday

Someone had a birthday!
This little piece of heaven is my granddaughter Zaine. She is displaying, for documentation purposes, the computer games I sent her for the occasion. She is eight.
In addition to being cute, she's bright as a new penny, and her grandpa is very proud of her.

Happy Birthday, Sweetheart







The next character in our line-up is suspect Wil, my grandson. He's probably guilty of about anything...not the least of which is referring to his sister as the "little satan" in an email to me just this afternoon (said in jest, obviously). I'll probably get this wrong and be chastised, but Wil is, I think eleven.

His mother just sent me the following information in an email:


Wil is working on a project for school having to do with some unused land.  He attends a "Charter School" which means he doesn't have all the school facilities as a regular school and they are in a building downtown with no play area.  They have used an abandoned lot as a play area for recess.  Well, his school has decided to lobby the city council to buy the land and lease it to the school for a play area.  The school will clean up and improve the lot (it has been unused for over 35 years).  The lawyer working with the project met all the kids involved and went to the principal with the suggestion that Wil be the one to address the city council on behalf of the school!  The principal and adviser agreed, so Wil will be addressing the city council at their next meeting in early April.  It is a HUGE deal and a big big honor!  They weren't even considering having a student do it before this lawyer met Wil and was just so impressed!  Wil is very excited about it and is handling it all very well. 

Knock 'em dead, Wil!




The final suspect, shown with proud papa, is the one responsible for this mess.  My daughter Lisa.  Thank you honey!!!

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