Liam's back and flying through the air with the greatest of ease...

Nani & Grand-dad brought Liam home to NoVA/DC Sunday night. After a brief visit to DC and Arlington and a quick trip to visit Aunt Sheila & Uncle Ed in PA they headed back to Orlando and Liam and I kicked of our Home-School venture...so far so GREAT!
Liam is doing a fantastic job keeping up with his academics and had a very successful busy first week of soccer practice, cub scouts and tomorrow's the first soccer game of the season.

We have unexpectedly added Trapeze School to our curriculum, in which Liam seems to be excelling. The staff at TSNY were quite impressed with his ability to learn fast and listen and follow directions...not to mention is lack of fear. He was the first to attempt a catch and did it with success! Both of us return on Monday for our 2nd class!

Who knows, maybe we'll just end up joining the Circus as the Flying O'Briens!

Liam's 1st Swing

The climb

Getting all latched into the safety lines

The scariest part...for me anyway

1...2...3...ready...

"hep"

"legs up"

"now reach for the other trapeze"

"legs down"

Drop

I caught the rest of Liam's swings on video...quite impressive!

Liam is now independent with connecting his own safety lines for the decent up the ladder

Chalking up

Liam's teacher and catcher
She kinda reminded both of us of his step-mom, Natalie, which could be way he was so comfortable allowing her to catch him!

Learning what catchable hands are and the commands he will hear in the air

The climb again

Watching the other flyers

Chalking up for his big catch

The Videos!!!

Liam's 2nd Swing

Liam's 3rd Swing

Liam's 4th Swing

Liam's 1st Catch
Liam did everything they told him to do, nothing more and nothing less...they forgot to tell him when the catcher catches his arms he has to let go of the trapeze with his legs. It was pretty comical for us, but he toughed out a couple "rug burns" on the back of he legs.

Liam's 2nd Catch
Perfect!!!