Driving…

Surprisingly Jack drives the car pretty well.   Exiting Grandpa’s back yard is pretty narrow considering the Barbie car is so wide but Jack manages to get by without hitting the house:

I’m a Barbie Girl…

Ruth gave us Nicole’s old Barbie car for Stacy but Stacy is still a bit too small for it, but it doesn’t stop Jack from driving:

 

Jack has no problems that he is in a HOT pink car:

 

Jack and Stacy cruise up and down the block:

Tot Lot…

As much as Stacy follows Jack around, Jack is really very nice to Stacy.   He is always looking at for her and he is more than willing to play on the ‘baby’ slide with Stacy:

Swim class…

Jack at one of his final swim classes.  His freestyle stroke has really improved in 3 weeks of class:

Basketball…

I can’t tell you how hard it is to watch Jack at basketball practice.  Most of the time I just want to be one of ‘those’ parents who is yelling at the kid to do better.   The other times I am just cringing watching him play because he just isn’t very good:

 

Don’t get me wrong, Jack is okay.  He isn’t the worst kid, but he sure runs SLOW.   Plus, you can see how athleticism makes a world of difference in the kids.   Jack has to practice, practice, practice to be ‘okay’.   Some other kids are wild and spastic but they make up for it with quickness and athleticism.

Jack is probably one of the best shooters on the team….but mostly in a catch and shoot situation:

Well hopefully as he gets olds he can find his niche on the court.

Rebound Fail…

Ugh.   It is no secret that I don’t rebound but my crummy rebounding skills coupled with Aya’s non-existent skills equals a Rebounding Fail:

Number 1 fan…

Poor little Stacy.  She gets dragged around to all of Jack’s basketball practices.   Every chance she gets Stacy tries to join in on basketball practice:

 

Stacy even wants to wear Jack’s Laker hat:

Pool…

Jack just cracks me up with the noodle.   I no longer have to be in the water with Jack all the time…but Jack isn’t a good enough swimmer where I can take a nap.  I still have to keep an eye on him.    Noodle jumping:

 

Dead man floating:

 

Giddy-up!!

 

Unicorn style:

 

Ahhh…pool time!!

Summer camp…

This summer we enrolled Jack in the Iverbe Summer Camp at Willows.  

 

Aya took Jack to summer camp on costume day:

 

Summer camp is from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm.   Jack gets to run around and play games all day long.   This camp is a ‘sports’ camp which means he is playing most of the day.  A big change for him since normally he has studies all day so this is a nice break for him.   Camp really tires him out because Jack is ready to go to sleep on time and even on weekends Jack just wants to ‘lounge’ and watch tv because he is tired!   At least he is getting into shape over the summer!!

South Bay Aquatics…

Bummers.  Jack was really picking up his swim strokes when we realized we have to take a break from swim class:

 

Jack is one a summer basketball team but the local  team that I want Jack to play has a summer clinic that runs the same time as swim class so we are stopping swim class for a month so Jack can go to two different basketball camps.   Man, we only have one kid in sports but Saturday’s we are driving all over the place.   The morning to Redondo for swim class, back to the westside for basketball, then back home for errands and finally back out to Gardena for basketball.  We are out of the house at 8:30 am and back home around 6:00 pm.

Aunty’s house…

Congratulations to Aunty and Uncle!!  They bought their first house in Gardena.   Hmm.  I just realized I don’t have any pictures of the ‘house’…but when we visited we took a picture outside of their house:

Now we just have to wait for Dawn and Bryan to fix up their house so Jack and Stacy can have a weekend sleep over!!

Me and my shadow…

No matter where Jack goes Stacy wants to follow:

 

Jack doesn’t even have to play or acknowledge Stacy, just as long as she can see him….peace:

Lounging….

Eyes…

Stacy is just so mischievous compared to Jack.   Stacy will open drawers, dig into Aya’s purse, takes my wallet….just basically causes havoc.   One day Aya left her sunglasses out and Stacy got ahold of them…calling them, ‘eyes’.

Now Stacy wants, ‘eyes’:

 

We got her a pair of Elton John style ‘eyes:

 

But she prefers Aya’s ‘eyes’:

Water time…

It starts out nice enough…Jack and Stacy playing together:

 

Then one of them gets a little wet:

 

Then a little wetter:

 

And then just a water fight!

Sadly, we have a loud neighbor that reported us for being too loud in the alley.  Well ‘us’ is really ‘Jack’ because he is running around screaming and making all sorts of noises like a spaz.   Not sure if we will be having any more water fights this summer.

4th of July Part 2…

Hmm, this might be a back up Christmas card!!   It is one of the rare family photos…and rarer that we are all looking at the camera at the same time!!

 

Stacy stayed up for the fireworks show but she thought the ‘boom’ was too loud.