stalker squirrel & last track meet

This squirrel is a STALKER!!!! It kept sitting on the front deck, running back and forth across the deck rail, pretending it was going to leave by jumping over to the tree, then jumping back to the deck. So I took its picture. As soon as it saw that I had gotten proof to identify our stalker, it ran away.



Saturday was the kids' last track meet. Friday night, though, Luke fell on the deck and scraped his foot. It still hurt too much Saturday morning to put on socks and sneakers, so he couldn't compete. Seth ran the 60 meter dash. For the first time, he ran the race without holding my hand. I had to run behind him like I was chasing him, though. He also didn't stay in his lane, but that's ok because he got last place anyway. It's a good experience for him to be involved at all.

Joel did the high jump:



And he threw the turbo javelin:


We sat around for quite a long time in between Joel's jumps and throws: