Andrew, Katherine, Edward and Aaron: April 2015

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Montessori School of Greater Lafayette (M.S.G.L.) 5K/1K Family Fun Run Event April 2015

It was a chilly start to the day, just above zero degrees Celsius, but it soon warmed up and so did we when Aaron started running quickly on our 1K path. We thought we would be walking it but not Aaron. Zoom he went, weaving through the crowd of parents and preschoolers, racing for the finish line. He had us panting by the end of it. I was barely able to take this shot of him running with Andrew.

Here's Edward at the start of the 5K race with his running buddy, Aidan, ready to go.

Edward and Aidan ended up coming in second and first, respectively, for the boys group with new personal best times and seventh and sixth, respectively, overall amongst all the participants, including the adults. Not bad, considering Edward hasn't run since last fall. Very happy for him and Aidan.

Here are Andrew, Aaron and I after Aaron received his Participation ribbon.

Aaron was pretty proud he beat Mom and Dad.

While waiting for brother Edward to finish his race, Aaron played in the bouncy house that was provided for and did some chalk drawings with Aidan's younger brother, Kai.

Indianapolis Museum of Art Family Day Visit April 2015

Here are the boys at the start of our visit to the Indianapolis Museum of Art last weekend. It was Family Day and because the NCAA championship games were being held that coming week in the city, the theme was Museum Madness with all sorts of activities, including basketball courts for the kids.

There was an art display by the artist Robert Indiana of Numbers that the boys had fun climbing. Really gorgeous day for our visit. So much sunlight.

Edward and Aaron even tried their own hand at being an art display themselves.

Finally, we got a goodbye picture with Robert Indiana's most famous art piece. There were a throng of people about so we were lucky to squeeze in a family picture.

Our Background

Hi! I'm Katherine and I will be doing most of the posts on this blog. I'm from the Greater Toronto Area, primarily growing up in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. My husband Andrew, was born in Montreal, however grew up in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, also in Canada. Andrew and I met in Kingston in 1996 while both studying at Queen's University. During a trip the following year to the Greek Islands, we happily got engaged underneath a lovely full moon on Santorini. In Canada, Andrew continued his studies, finishing with a Ph.D. in pure math, upon which we got married in Toronto on Canada Day in 2001 at Vaughan Estate at Sunnybrook. We then travelled and spent a postdoctoral year in Copenhagen, Denmark, and immediately upon our return to Toronto, were happy to announce the arrival of our first son, Edward, in February of 2004. We then moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick for two years where Andrew was an assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick. Then we moved to Toronto for four years where Andrew later became an associate professor at York University. During this time, our second son, Aaron, was born in December of 2009 while we lived in Markham, Ontario. Finally, our family moved to West Lafayette, Indiana where we've now been for about eight years with Andrew as a full professor in the Purdue math department. Edward is thirteen years old attending ninth grade in the fall and Aaron is eight years old now in grade three.