Due to high heat and a ban on screen time, Eric introduced the kids to Risk and Clue this weekend. Ivan loves Risk. Ezri is more into Clue. She wondered how I knew when I returned from work that she had played as Colonel Mustard. That’s the yellow piece on the game board. I knew she would pick yellow. I mean maybe Professor Plum after she gets tired of yellow but initially yellow.

Perfect for a Friday when the heat index is 103 – actual temperature 95. Rocky Road continues to be Ivan’s ice cream flavor of choice.

Ivan was impressed with the dorm room, ALL the junk food, the bounce house, the sno cone truck, playing mini golf, learning frisbee skills and playing foosball.

His face when he realized that truck had sno cones!

Ivan was not into meeting lots of new people or posing for photos.

Frisbee lesson from his dad and our friend Pier

I didn’t catch a good photo but Ivan loved the foosball both in upper Sayles and the basement of the Cassat Dorm

Storytime at the library is a thing the Carleton academic librarians now host for kids of reunion attendees. According to our friend Ann, she proposed hosting this annually after the reunion 5 years ago when I volunteered to do storytime for kids.

This is a drawing lesson and talk about how picture books are made by a classmate who is now a professional children’s book illustrator.

Ivan, Ezri and Katherine are trying to stump each other by sharing riddles they know.

Going through all the papers that came home from school and found this gem!

End of school year picnic is a great time to play with friends in a muddy creek.

Sandwich lunch with cheese sun chips means a recitation of “Cheesy Llama”

In his small chess tournament at school, Ivan thought he would be in second place and Kyle would win.
But, he tied Kyle for first.

Congratulations, Ivan, you still can’t beat your parents. . . yet. But you are a king of 1st grade chess players.

And a smile and a whistle for the project being painted!

So proud of Ivan for performing with his school music class. He didn’t do the hand motions as large or with as much enthusiasm as his classmates. But he smiled a forced smile stayed with the group and didn’t panic about performing in front of the whole school and a crowd of parents. For Ivan, that’s pretty amazing!  He also wasn’t excited about going on the Brownie Scout letterboxing scavenger hunt, but he did and he had fun. This was his team who named themselves “Teal Rainbow Thin Mint.” He did not like the name “except for the Thin Mints.”