Luckily we have had some nice warm weather on the weekend so Jack and I headed out to the pool. The doctor doesn’t want me to ‘swim’ yet but I can stand in the pool.
Good thing Jack swims well now because I don’t have to be in the water with him all the time. I can sit in the chair and read a magazine and semi-snooze with one eye still watching him:
We spent 5 hours at the pool….I was wiped out!!
If you let Stacy pick out her own clothes she will always pick out this dress:
Lamby in one hand, fake cell phone in another hand, a dress….so girlie.
Geez…makes you wonder if Jack is ‘special’…but Jack specifically wanted his picture taken like this:
Jack got his FIRST school award for being a reading superstar. Not sure what you need to do to get the award but Jack does read a lot every month. Jack gets a prize for 400 minutes read a month and a bigger prize for 600 minutes a month. Typically Jack is in the 700-900 minute a month range.
The hardest part about being coaching your own kid is that you expect so much more from him than the other kids…especially because Jack is one of the better players on the team. Jack didn’t play well in game 1, in Game 2 Jack dominated and in Game 3 he just did okay. Luckily in Game 3, Aunty Dawn captured this video for us:
It isn’t so much the basket…it is Jack’s post basket celebration.
Jack and the Venice Pirates played in their first basketball tournament.
We played against 2 teams we have never seen before AND we played with fast breaks.
Playing with fast breaks is a new rule for us as in the season you are not allowed the fast break and the ref stops the action if a team tries to fast break. Unfortunately, I did not prepare the team to play with the fast break rule and we didn’t do as well as we normally do. Nevertheless we did okay, but after 3 games in 2 days I nearly lost my voice yelling at the kids.
Jack adding another trophy to his collection:
I never would have thought that *I* would be playing tea party, but now that my knee is feeling better, I am able to get into Stacy’s castle and have a tea party with Stacy, Puppy and Bear:
You would think I would get priority over Puppy and Bear when Aya came up to join the tea party, but nope…I was ‘bumped’ from the tea party group. What’s up with that???
We celebrated Ian’s birthday at El Marino park. It was ‘western’ themed:
Brentt made Jail and Saloon facades:
Stacy got into the spirit, even though she looks unhappy she was having fun:
In fact, Stacy was having fun hanging out with Jack’s classmates and even more shocking the girls wanted Stacy to keep them company and play with them. The girls were content to sit under the play equipment and talk and play….while Jack and the other boys were out running around all over the park!
Sure I have lots of goofy pictures of the kids, but this is probably one of my favorite pictures I have a Stacy:
I found her curled up in the laundry basket with her blanket.
So my surgeon cancelled my 2 month check up and my 3 month check up is next week but my insurance only allows me 25 PT visits. I have now used up all my PT by insurance and when I tried to get discharged the surgeon’s assistant said that there is no way I can be discharged without seeing the doctor or within 3 months of ACL surgery.
Luckily the surgeon’s assistant is nice so I didn’t really get mad at her for the doctor not being able to see me sooner. They tried to get me a medical necessity note to the insurance company saying I am not healed yet but that did not work. So, I was sort of discharged. In the books I am discharged and now working out under medical supervision. I still can’t run, jump or play sports but I do get to run on this anti-gravity treadmill:
I totally hate running but running in this thing is like running on air. Here is a description of the machine:
Originally conceived by Dr. Robert Whalen to design effective exercise regimens for NASA’s astronauts, Differential Air Pressure (DAP) technology has been adapted by AlterG for use in training and rehabilitation. Cleared by the FDA in 2008, the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill is a medical device that can be used for:
Rehabilitation of lower extremity injuries
Treatment of neurological conditions
Weight reduction
Aerobic conditioning
General training to combat the diseases of aging
Unweighting is achieved in the AlterG by using air in a pressure-controlled chamber to gently lift the user. Precise calibration using our patented technology allows for very specific unweighting from 100-20% of the users body weight in 1% increments. Something no other unweighting modality can do.
Aya and Stacy went to visit Uncle Su-Chan in Brea.
Unfortunately Aya had camera difficulties with a point and shoot:
How you can’t get someone’s head in the picture is beyond me!!
The girl toy’s are so crummy compared to the boy toys at McDonalds. This week it was Green Lantern masks:
Jack wore his CP3 jersey to Easter and while Jack pretended to be CP3, Uncle Bryan got to pretend he was Blake Griffin. Sadly, Jack looked more like CP3 then Bryan looked like Blake Griffin:
Bryan did better on attempt #2 but still not ESPN Top 10 worthy:
Jack decided he was better off scoring on his own!
Just in case you didn’t know I root for the following local teams:
Dodgers, Lakers, Kings and UCLA
I do NOT root for the other teams:
Angels, Clippers, Ducks or USC
I went to Sports Chalet last week and they had a few jerseys. I thought Jack might want a Kevin Durant or Russell Westbrook jersey. Jack’s Laker home white jersey was getting small as well. I asked Jack which jersey he wanted, totally ignoring the Chris Paul and Blake Griffin jersey’s. Sadly, Jack saw the Chris Paul jersey and his eyes lit up and he yelled out, “oooo-hhhh CP3.”
Miles: “No, no, we don’t want the Clippers”
Miles: “Don’t you want Durant or Westbrook instead?”
Jack: “No I want Chris Paul”
Miles: “Are you sure? Lets get Kobe”
Jack: “No, I like Chris Paul”
Miles: “But I don’t like the Clippers. I don’t root for the Clippers.”
Jack: “But they are from Los Angeles just like the Lakers…LA and LA”
Miles: “Yes so lets get a new Kobe jersey”
Jack: “No, I like Chris Paul…he is good”.
Jack: “We should cheer for all the LA teams.”
Grrrr. So totally against my better judgment and heart broken we took the CP3 jersey up to the register and bought it:
Jack’s teeth are just dropping like flies! Jack had another loose tooth and it was bothering him so much he had Grandpa pull his tooth out:
