The 2013 Olympics!

What's that, you say? No Olympics in odd numbered years?

Tell that to these kids!

Four Mile Elementary had their annual Spring Olympics this Monday, May 20th.  We missed it last year when Robby was in them as we were over in Iowa City on a follow-up visit after Caleb's surgery.  Aunt Dianne went last year to represent for Mr. Robby, but we were indeed sorry we missed it.

How sorry we did not know until Monday.  It was a LOT more fun than I thought it would be and the 1-legged hop was truly a captivating event.  I'm not kidding.

This is a shot of SOME of the kids lining up for the opening ceremony parade.

They marched the kiddos in by class.  This is Caleb's kindergarten class led by the inimitable Mrs. Riordan.  I challenge anyone to locate the small Chinese boy in this photo.  He's in there, I promise!  A tiny bit of him anyway.  Three kids away from Mrs. Riordan is a little girl with a white shirt (butterfly on it) and blueish colored shorts with flowers. You can see Caleb's hair blowing in the wind behind her head and his forearm on the other side of her head.

This was a few steps later...  Caleb is in the Hillis Elementary tie-dyed t-shirt adjacent to Mrs. Riordan.  It took a bit to get the camera set correctly for being in the bright early morning sun light.

And here is Robby's class led by Mrs. Hengstenberg.  Robby is also in a Hillis Elementary tie-dyed t-shirt like his little bro.  If you start at the two folks sitting in chairs on the side of the football field, the fella in orange, the lady in a dark color, Robby is almost immediately below the lady.

This is Robby's class out of the field doing the crab-walk.

There's our hippie boy who did surprisingly well when you consider that he wasn't supposed to do this event, but rather the one-legged hop.  He got mixed up and wanted one of his parents to come sit with him in an effort to keep him organized.  We didn't.  2nd grade Olympics is a good place to screw up and have to deal with those consequences.

That is a mass of humanity on the field as they prepare for the 80-yard dash.

And speaking of the 80 yard dash, here is Caleb running it.  He's crossing the 40yard line in the photo and I put a flame under him to indicate his whereabouts.

The wheelbarrow race.  This is Caleb's class racing here.  Again, hard to spot, Caleb and his partner are just behind the 50 yard line with Master C in the "wheelbarrow" position as his partner refused to switch and Caleb is too nice to insist.

We only got two photos of Robby in the wheelbarrow race as it was impossible to see the view finder on the camera due to the sun.  This photo was the obvious choice since the other one looked like Robby was giving the kid some type of exam, of a rather personal variety.

That pretty well wrapped it up for us.  Both boys had fun and so did the parents so well worth taking a day off of work to attend!