Life and times of the Chranko family
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Last Day of School 2009
Jun 12th
First things first. Sorry Detroit about being bested by the Penguins. Cubs fans in Chicago are good at saying there’s always next year (which usually happens in June), but c’mon Penguins? Waddling Tuxedo wearers? Pittsburgh!?!?!
Aidan and Elise spend their last day, well technically the last day was just an hour, of class at a luau. After saying goodbyes and receiving their report cards, they partied down Hawaiian style with limbo, leis, ho-ho’s, chips and soda…You know all the traditional Hawaiian stuff.
On a different school related note, both kids and their classes recently joined the rest of the school and the Chicago Artists community to creat artistic birdhouses that would be auctioned off. The auction ended up raising $10,000 for a new school playground. You can see the finished products at the Friends of Pritzker website. Aidan’s class project was displayed @ Red Hen Bread and Elise’s was @ Psychobaby.
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- Elise’s birdhouse
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- Aidan’s Birdhouse
We’re proud – very proud – that Aidan finished First Grade with straight A’s which means that Grandpa Joe owes him $13 ($1 for each). He’s really enjoyed school and we look forward to watching him continue to flourish in 2nd grade.
Elise, while not receiving grades, also got a stellar progress report. She too has enjoyed school and is sad when she is sick and cannot go. Her teachers comments said that she was helpful, considerate and a good friend and helps the younger kids when they need it…independent and curious about her environment… In her mind she too got straight A’s and we couldn’t agree more.
We’re looking forward to summer and seeing many of you soon. We’re also looking forward to doing a better job using this site to communicate with you. Lazy Chris. Bad, lazy Chris!
Home Run!
Jul 12th
Last weekend Aidan hit a home run. It was his 5th game of baseball ever!
Ok so the real story is hit hit a grounder along the 3rd base line. The third baseman, fielded the ball and heaved it to first. The kid was at 3rd for a reason, that being he could throw the ball the distance from 3rd to first … and beyond which is what happened in this case. The coaches waved Aidan on to second. At this point the first baseman was just fielding the ball so the coaches waved him on to third. Not liking what happened to him earlier, the firstbaseman recipricated and flung the ball wildly over the 3rd baseman’s head. Strolling into home plate was easy as pie at this point. It wasn’t pretty, but a run is a run, right?
Kindergarten graduation, really? Well no.
Jun 13th
Today Aidan was told that he met all of the “requirements” to be promoted from Kindergarden into 1st grade @ pritzker. In a brief 10 minute “ceremony” multiple certificates were distributed, including good citizenship and perfect attendance. Here marks the official start of summer in the eyes of a child. We’ll try to make the best of things having two permanent adults, two resident children and a full time babysitter in very close quarters. I guess the light at the end of the tunnel is that Elise was accepted at Pre-K at the same school as Aidan and will begin her academic journey in September…on her birthday no less!
Happy Birthday Aidan
May 5th
Today our little boy turned 6. We celebrated it as any 6 year old would … with lots and lots of reptiles. First was the cobra snake shirt he selected to wear to school, then came the cobra cake that Nadiya brought over. To top it off we surpised him at school with a visit from the Travelling World of Reptiles (http://www.travelingworldofreptiles.com/). Check out the photos. He actually had a tarantula spin a web on his head.
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
Dec 24th
Wishing everyone a very, very Merry Christmas. Go easy on the egg nog. You remember what happened last year, don’t you?
Here’s an excerpt from Aidan’s School’s Winter Assembly. … Ladies and Gentlemen, please put your hands together and make some noise for the Pritzker Kindergarten classes, room 110, 112 and 117!
Early December photos available
Dec 20th
We’ve survived a winter fury, a cookie exchange and a birthday celebration for Grandpa Bob … and that was just one weekend! We’re busy preparing for Christmas, but have found time to share some photos with you. We’ll be posting a bunch more after the Christmas and the new year. Today Aidan had a Winter Assembly at school. While it was mostly a 2 hour bout of listening to off key singing and budding musicians, we survived - and as soon as we can digitize the video, we’ll make it available here. Aidan and his peers in the school’s 3 kindergarten classes sang a Kwanzaa chant, All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth and the Hanukkah song. His school is officially celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Ramudan and had songs and presentations about each holiday.
Last weekend, Elise got to dance the nutcracker with real ballerinas along with an orchestra. Photos from all these occasions are now in the gallery.