Michaelmas

Today was the Feast of the Archangels.    It was traditionally a day for St. Michael, Michaelmas, but now we celebrate Gabriel and Raphael on September 29th as well.  We had a nice time coloring some pictures, reading stories about the angels, and making devil's food cake cupcakes and putting "St. Michael's sword" in them.  :)

We couldn't find the little plastic cocktail swords so we used bamboo knot picks from World Market instead.  I think they looked like swords.  :)   The boys were very dramatic and saying "aaaaahaaaa!" as they put them in.

Notice Tuck's football helmet in no way impeded his ability to smear chocolate all over his face.  No indeed!  :)

He has discovered football and wears that helmet all the time.  He, Daddy and Marc play in the front yard all the time now.  Tucker has a trick "spin move" to get away.  Sometimes he spins continually right into the end zone.  We call that the tornado.  :)

In totally unrelated news, we taught Marc's Sunday School class on Sunday because his teacher was out.   We are glad they are still at an age where they don't mind us teaching their friends.  :)

 After the lesson the teacher had left instructions for them to put on a play.  As soon as we suggested it they all jumped up, assigned parts, got costumes, rehearsed and did it great!  They obviously have a lot of practice at this.  This particular play was Noah's ark- Marky was God.  :)