Eddy has added a ninth foot to the collection and a particularly large plastic piece to add to the group. There are quite a lot of feet making up this necklace and adding another orange foot certainly gives it some weight. It is a very impressive assortment of plastic feet he has acquired this year. The real weight came from one piece that he earned quite recently.

Yes the big blue 100 piece that Eddy got to add to his growing collection of formerly only feet. This piece is awarded once the student walks 100 miles. He has been proud of his accomplishments up to this point, but receiving a special piece for hitting this milestone was certainly a big deal.

The weather has gotten nicer and Eddy is able to ride his bike to school now. He has slowed down on bothering to show up for walking having reached the magic 100. This is not to say that he is not still doing the walking, but it certainly is nice to sleep in occasionally with the school year winding down. He is also participating in the conditioning workouts at Archbishop Hoban High School twice a week, for football, so exercise is not something lacking in his schedule.

I went to see Eddy in The Jungle Book play at St. Paul School. The play and music is all owned by Disney and this was the version for kids. This year Patty was not in the play having graduated and gone on to high school. I went, as I did last year, on opening night. The audience was not permitted to take any photographs or record the show during the performance, which was fine with me, since I do not do that anyway.

Eddy played the part of a rock. The rock had to wear pants and a shirt that were too big. There were two rocks. When I first heard about the part that Eddy got in the play I assumed that it would be him occupying space on the stage. The rock part sung almost all the songs and they even had a line that they did solo. It was a fun play to watch. I enjoyed it.

This is Eddy’s last play at St. Paul School. It has yet to be seen what kind of after-school activities he will participate in at Archbishop Hoban next year. He was accepted and so far it is looking like he will be trying out for football and try his hand at art. I am hoping for another good year.

Eddy has earned yet another foot, in the before school Walking Club, bringing the grand total to seven. The color chosen this time was black. The school year is well over half over it is fair to assume that there will probably only be several more feet before it is finished.

On an almost completely unrelated note all the feet have a heart shaped hole. No idea what that signifies or if it signifies anything at all.

This foot was earned earlier in the month, but it took quite a while to get a picture of the sixth foot. First, Eddy lost the foot. He said that he had it in the pocket of one of his pants. The foot could have fallen out or the washer and dryer could have gotten it; either way it was gone forever. This required going in to see the gym teacher to ask for another foot. I was prepared to make Eddy give her a dollar or however much it was going to cost to replace the lost foot, because it was his responsibility, but she just gave him another one. That was nice of her.

The color chosen this time was yellow, which is the first time that Eddy has picked a color that he already had. This is not for lack of there being more choices in colors. While he was picking out the foot to replace the one he lost I noticed that there was a white, purple, and black foot, but Eddy chose yellow.

Eddy got the fifth foot. This foot was actually earned much earlier this month, but this is when a picture was finally taken and a post was made. The choice of color this time was gold. When looking at the picture it is very easy to discern gold from yellow, but in poor light it is very hard to tell the difference.