Jack and Owen set off to Germantown Academy today.
Unlike with Fiona — who negotiated her first-day outfit, there was no discussion about what Jack and Owen would wear — the have school uniforms (yeah!!). The boys didn’t seem to mind much, except for the belt.
Owen was all set to go, but Jack was a little grumpy and nervous.
Fiona started Pre-K today (the boys start Thursday). She was quite excite to go to her new class with Miss Maura and Miss Kelsey.
After some dispute and discussion about what she should wear and which hairstyle would be best, she was quite pleased with her appearance.
We had some new black shoes to go with her outfit, but she insisted on wearing her pink “high top heels.” (She gets “high tops” and “high heels” somewhat confused!)
There were a lot of questions in North Carolina about some of the McKenna-Wilson ancestors. I’ve done a little bit of work on that, so I gathered some of the documents and am posting them here. There are still MANY uncertainties, but I’ve tried to just include the most reliable information. I have more details (siblings, other children, jobs, cause of death, etc.) on most of these people, but here are some of the basics. You’ll need Adobe reader to view the .PDFs.
(NOTE: Fiona has been “helping” while I’ve been trying to put this together to post, so I’m sure there are some mistakes and typos … just let me know what you find that doesn’t make sense and I’ll try to sort it out.)
Here are the two basic family trees back a couple of generations with some details:
Joseph Edward MCKENNA pedigree
Frances Catherine WILSON pedigree
Below are copies of some of the documents that I used to create the family trees. I’ve highlighted the relevant areas.
1865 BOYLE (cameron) Mary death
1880 WILSON Charles F. Sr. census
1885 McKENNA (kerr) Margaret birth
1900 WILSON Charles F. Sr. census
1910 WILSON Charles F. Sr. census
1911 WILSON Frederick WWI draft
1920 WILSON Frederick census a
1920 WILSON Frederick census b
1922 McKENNA (boyle) Grace death
1923 McKENNA Thomas manifest a
1923 McKENNA Thomas manifest b
1927 KERR (gallacher) Catherine death
1927 McKENNA (kerr) Margaret manifest a
1927 McKENNA (kerr) Margaret manifest b
Jack spent two weeks at football camp in NJ — one week at the Chris Snee camp at William Patterson University and one week at the Offense-Defense camp at Rider.
At the Chris Snee camp, Jack won the “outstanding football player award” as the best overall player in the under-11 age group.
Although he was one of the smallish guys playing, he was almost unstoppable at linebacker and quite fearsome as a fullback. (In the photos, Jack’s the little guy in the navy jersey and red shorts.)
The next week at the Rider camp, Jack played more linebacker, but also learned that he likes the hitting he gets to do when he plays on the offense line. At that camp, he got a “report card” that was graded on a 1-4 scale and Jack got all 4’s and 3+ grades.
Owen also attended the Rider camp and I’ll get photos of him up and tell his story later this week. (Quick preview….tiny little Owen player CENTER!!)
The Solebury Blue U9 baseball team is undefeated in the Amwell tournament so far. They’re really playing great.
Here are some photos from the first three games:
Taken at the baseball playoff game…Jack’s team was the runner-up!!
These are the winners from the Solebury Township qualifier for the Pitch, Hit & Run competition. The first place winners go one to compete in the regionals; the regional winners get to compete at a Phillies game.
Jack won the 9 & 10 year old overall title; he also tied for first in pitching and won the hitting.
Try it yourself here.
We’re back … photo album (with captions) is here.
How do you lose a fish out of a fish tank?
Our orange, white and black platy, Archie (Manning), is missing…how can that be?
Unless Molly ate him once he landed on the floor, I don’t think he jumped out of the tank. He’s too big to get sucked up by the filter and he’s definitely NOT hiding in the plants.
Do you think aliens took him?
Can we call the “Finding Nemo” people?