2nd Grade…

Jack started the 2nd grade this year and Aya and I took him to school his first day:

Stacy wanted to send Jack off to school as well:

Jack checking out his desk:

Madden…

I don’t get to play as much XBOX as I used to or want to but when I occassionly play, Jack asks if he can play.  I always say, “No” or that “You have to wait until you are 8 years old.”   I realized, wow…Jack WILL be 8 soon.

I just got Madden at work and I know Jack plays Madden on the iPad so I handed him a controller and told him lets play!!

Surprisingly Jack was pretty good.   If Madden was just a pure arcade game I think I would have lost.  Luckily Madden has so many options and features and Jack didn’t know how to read the offense and defensive plays so I just ‘owned’ him on both sides of the ball:

Jack was getting frustrated losing, so it might have been good to play XBOX because when I asked him to play again after 3 games he didn’t want to play anymore because I kept beating him!!    Hey, I gotta get all the wins I can get now because pretty soon I won’t be able to win at all!!

Dodgers!

Our last game of the season for our season tickets and look at these EATERS:

Man, it was hot at the game and Stacy and I were sweaty:

Jack is happy as long as he gets his cotton candy!

Hopefully the Dodgers can advance to the second round of the playoffs and beyond.   I passed on the earlier rounds for tickets for the later rounds!!

Chuck E Cheese Part 2…

Jack was invited to Ryan’s birthday party:

Any time Jack can play video games he is a happy camper!!   Jack loves to play Deal or No Deal:

Baseball:

Basketball:

Monkey Ball:

Artic  Thunder:

All in all, it wasn’t too bad at Chuck E Cheese.   I think I would go back even when it isn’t a birthday party.

Chuck E Cheese Part 1…

Stacy’s first trip to Chuck E Cheese:

This was my first time to Chuck E Cheese since I was a kid.  I thought it was mostly for older kids and lots of video games but they had a lot of kiddie games and rides:

Stacy was having fun going on all the rides:

Best of all, we were there for a party so we got lots of ‘free’ tokens and the place wasn’t crowded at all!!

Fiesta La Ballona Part 5…

Jack might not have wanted to ride the big kid rides but he wanted to do the big kid carnival games…especially shooting a BB gun:

I don’t think Jack grasped the concept of what he was suppose to do…he just wanted to shoot something:

He thought he won because he hit the center star but didn’t realize that NO part of the star could be showing:

Winning a prize by popping a balloon with a dart:

Fiesta La Ballona Part 4…

Stacy played some carnival games:

She won a  giant inflatable baseball bat:

But I think Jack was jealous of the bat and he plays with it at home all the time:

Stacy growling when she throws down her dunk!!

Fiesta La Ballona Part 3…

The carnival had older kid rides but Jack was content on just riding the kiddie rides with Stacy:

That made it easier for me, but all the kiddie line rides were soooo slow:

The kids seemed to be having fun:

Happy, happy, happy…

Fiesta La Ballona Part 2…

The kids went in the “obstacle course” house.   Jack was ‘scared’ when he was little because he couldn’t climb the rope ladder, but Stacy made it up a-ok:

She loved the ball pit:

Going thru all the tackle dummies:

Weeeeeeeee:

Fiesta La Ballona Part 1…

Aya fell asleep when we were suppose to go to the Fiesta La Ballona carnival so I took the kids while Aya napped.   Stacy started off on the Merry-Go-Round:

And Jack didn’t mind being on the ‘kiddie’ rides:

They had this old beat tea cup ride and the kids loved it!!

They wanted to go SUPER FAST…I was getting a little woozy by the end of the ride:

Photo bomb:

I wanted to take a picture of Stacy and Jack walked in the room and said he wanted to take a picture with her as well:

Then I told him to get out of the picture so I could just take a picture of Stacy and then Jack walks back into the room backwards when I was about to take a picture of Stacy and does this:

Yes, I think it is funny….but I dunno where *they* learn it from.

Basketball…

Jack has been working hard at his club team basketball practice.   Jack got moved up with the older kids:

Jack is so small compared to the older kids:

Usually Jack doesn’t sweat much at basketball but now that he is working hard with the older kids he is dripping sweat:

It is nice to see the hard work pay off.   Jack is the worse kid on the big kid side  but when he works out with his own team he is really getting better:

Jack was the only one to make the basket to get the group to stop running sprints!

Swim Test…

Stacy’s last week day swim class before school starts was a test day.   Stacy nailed it and passed with flying colors:

Stacy was so happy to pass level 2:

Zoo…

My parents took the kids to the zoo.  They must have went on a good day because they were the first ones in the zoo.

They look so ‘happy’ at the zoo:

Ahhh, that’s better:

Stacy said her favorite animal at the zoo was the giraffe’s:

Jack like the lizards and the snakes: