The best part of the tournament for me was when Jack used his crossover during a game. We have been practicing dribbling at home, with Grandpa and at club team practice. I told Jack you have to do it so its natural in the game and he doesn’t have to think about it.
Well he did it:
Game 3 had us going against another Tigers team, Tigers Aces. This game was pretty close for a half. I think it went back and forth for a bit but in the second half we only gave up 2 points and won 26-16.
Not too shabby, 2-1 in the tournament. I really wished we didn’t lose that second game but the kids played hard. Jack did well in the tournament as well:
And everyone got their trophy:
Now we have a few months to get ready for our next season:
Game 2 was against the Tigers Thunder. We hadn’t seen them since SBY season a year ago. They were just as tough as we remembered. It will sound like sour grapes, but some takeaways from the game. They double dribbled and travelled a lot. I think our team is the most disciplined team in the league in terms of NOT doubling dribbling and travelling. It just seems like the refs don’t call it when they should be calling it.
Another issue was I realized after the game the coach didn’t play all his players evenly. That was my fault. In our league you have to sub the boys in every 5 minutes, all the boys. In this tournament, you only had to play a boy 5 minutes a half. Thus, the Tigers played there better players most of the game.
Still, we kept it close but we lost at the end 26-20.
Jack is so lucky to have his fan club come out to support him, Uncle Bryan, Aunty Dawn, Grandma & Grandpa:
Uncle Su came out to watch:
We played the Evergreen Knights. We have never seen them play before and the game started fast and furious with kids knocking down jumpers left and right. It was a close game back and forth but we went on a late run in the second half and played good defense, winning game 1, 26-20.
We celebrated Uncle Bryan’s birthday at Sakura:
Uncle Bryan with his presents:
So close! We almost had a picture without someone messing it up, but Stacy sort of was making a silly face:
And then it was on like Donkey Kong:
I somehow got suckered into taking the kids to the pool on my own. With Stacy being the one you have to watch, I decided not to take any chances and I just tied a noodle around her:
Jack, doing his thing:
Put he is his mother’s son:
Since Stacy likes to do puzzles and draw, we bought her a kids desk/table. She loves it. She can build her puzzles on it instead of doing it on the floor and she can do lots of drawings now:
The problem with dividing the pictures of the kids is that sometimes I forget who has which pictures. In any case, I forgot Stacy made a card for Aya for Mother’s day:
Along with a family portrait:
Dawn hosted Mother’s Day dinner for us:
Happy Mother’s day!
Aya and I went to Jack’s open house. It was nice to hear how well Jack is doing in school. He made this paper machete head of himself:
He also had his map of Africa displayed for doing a good job (figures he had Africa):
Best of all, Jack is leading the pack in Math:
I took a day off from work (I am maxed out on my vacation time, so I basically have to take a day off every paycheck). I got Aya to leave work early and we went to the movies. A new dine-in theater opened up. Turns out you have to be 21 to go. They serve alcohol and they bring you food throughout the movie. There is a call box and menu and you just order away.
The theater also has nice electronic recliners and table to make it easy to eat. It was pretty nice. The theater only holds about 50 people so there is lots of room. Ticket prices were bad either:
Jack had his first school dance. It was a formal dance as well, the kids had to dress up for the dance. I didn’t think Jack would want to go but when we asked he said he wanted to go.
Aya was his ‘date’ for the dance.
Stacy had a make up class for Gymnastics so Aya and I were able to watch her one weekend:
She is so good:
Just so amazing at what she can do compared to when Jack went:
So proud watching her at gymnastics:
Jack is doing quite well at baseball. His sad team is actually playing very well now. Jack got to start the game reciting the baseball oath:
And then proceeded to have a 4 hit day:
Today he was even ready and paying attention out in the field:
Not only do the kids get to play at the pool, they also have fun at Grandpa & Grandma’s house with the water:
Hmm, I forgot to mention, they are in their underwear:
I guess Jack’s coach finally got tired of being the worst team in the league. We now have practice 1.5 hours before the game to get some extra BP:
All that translated into our FIRST win of the season:
I thought we would be winless! So glad to just get ONE win.
