Art…

So just when I was saying Jack has ‘ZERO’ artistic ability, this is what comes home from art class:

 

Fart, Poop and Pee.  Then a banana and poop picture.   At least he has ‘air’ for the fart, the poop is brown and the pee is yellow.  I got a nice chuckle out of the drawing but then I told him it was not appropriate for him to draw that at school.  I then told Jack to show Mom his picture.

I was in the next room when I heard Jack tell Aya that this is what he drew in art class.  Aya didn’t like the picture either but then Jack messed up.  He told Aya that he didn’t draw it but someone else put his name on it and stuck it in his folder.   He was making a nice story out of it for Aya and then I walked in.  BUSTED.   Jack tried to hold up his story but when I grilled him about it he had to say he was lying. 

Needless to say, Jack was not a happy camper and he got no video games for two weeks.

Farragut Art Festival…

We headed out to Jack’s school for his art festival.  This is what Jack made:

I have no idea what it is.  A container or pot of some sort.  I will chalk it up a funky ashtray.  This kid has ZERO artistic ability.  I can’t say much, neither do I…but he seems to think his stuff is ‘quality’ art.

At least he got to help paint a mural outside his classroom wall:

Basketball…

I have been taking Jack to a club team practice for a few months now.   Man by Tuesday’s are long.  I am out of the house from 7:45 am and I come back home around 9:15 pm.  Not the ideal way I like to start my week but Jack is getting better:

I am just waiting for the light to ‘click’ in what he does at practice so he can apply it in a game:

With the WLA Tournament coming up it will be nice to see if Jack does well:

Anniversary…

Aya and I celebrated our 14 year anniversary by going to our usual spot, Café Del Rey.  We got every year on our anniversary:

Jack took a good picture of Aya and I:

I think the kids like the anniversary more than Aya and I.  The kids like to go out to eat and Café Del Rey:

Since Café Del Rey does not have desserts we like so the kids picked their favorite dessert place..Menchies!

14 years has gone by so quick….can’t even believe it was 17 years ago that I met Aya.  Time sure does fly by when you get old.

Dodgers…

With all the changes to Dodger management, we decided to stay in our season ticket group.  We got a few more games than last year and it is working out well.  We still have enough games to take the kids and Aya is using some of the games to take staff and management from work.

The best part about our tickets is that we are under the roof, so we can go to day games and we are in the shade.  The kids just go to eat and ruin the pictures:

We went opening weekend and the Dodgers won 6-2.   The stadium was packed so we didn’t stay to run the bases but we opted to take a picture next to the LA logo:

California Science Center

I am back!  I took last week off from updating just because I was too lazy to sign in an upload the pictures.  Actually, I update the blog in batches so I will do a few weeks at a time.  I didn’t realize it until mid-week that I didn’t have any updates and then I was lazy.

So back to the updates.  Aunty Dawn took the kids to the California Science Center:

Of course the main attraction was the space shuttle:

Jack messing up the pictures with his FACE:

 

Look, two of these kids are not like the others:

Thanks for Aunty for watching the kids on her day off!

Park…

It was nice to have some days off with the kids.  It was nice to just be out of the office and outside.  The kids had fun on the swings…even though I had to push them!

Happy Friday!

Gymnastics…

Not only did I get to see Stacy swim but the next day it was gymnastics.  Jack was TERRIBLE at gymnastics.  I was sort of glad Jack sucked at gymnastics because I think it is a girl-ie sport.  The problem was when they are that young it really isn’t gymnastics…it just just tumbling and jumping…and Jack was awful.

Stacy on the other hand was a CHAMP!

Good balance.  Good dexterity:

And most of all, something that Jack had ZERO of…STRENGTH!

I was amazed when I saw Stacy do this.  Jack couldn’t do this NOW.  Even the boys in Stacy’s class couldn’t do it.   Hopefully this girl will be the superstar athlete of the family.

Swim Class…

I took some time off from work and I was able to take Stacy to swim class and I was amazed at how good she is in the water!

Way more at ease in the water.  Listens more than Jack.  She is just so much more talented than Jack.

I think Stacy could learn to swim at Jack’s level pretty soon!!

Cannonball!!

Easter Part 4…

I guess with all that eating we had to work off some of the food.  Jack and Aiden played basketball against Maggie and Lucy:

Then the real contest started as Scott defended his HORSE title.  Thomas made a strong push to win the title this year:

But he couldn’t do it.   Bryan tried, but he is a rookie and better off playing with the girls:

Scott tried to win it all…but now that I am 100% the true CHAMPION prevailed and I regained the Easter HORSE crown and I am once again the CHAMPION!!

Easter Part 3…

The cousins all coloring Easter Eggs.  I dunno what it is, I don’t like eating Easter Colored hard boiled eggs:

Afterwards, decorating cupcakes:

Definitely Aya’s kids:

Jack’s cupcake:

Easter Part 2…

We gathered at my parents house for Easter.  This year we started off the Easter lunch with the Easter egg hunt:

Stacy got a big head start and did much better in Grandpa and Grandma’s back yard:

Jack was able to get quite a few eggs as well:

I don’t recall getting money in the Easter Eggs when I was a kid.  Jack got over $20 bucks and Stacy had like $15 bucks!

Easter Part 1…

Aya and Stacy went to the WLA Easter Egg hunt:

Stacy didn’t do that bad running around and gathering up some eggs:

Aya had the camera…so that is why part of Stacy’s head is chopped off.  If only Aya thought about taking ONE step back so she could get Stacy’s head AND the Easter basket in the shot…hmm…what a novel idea.

I guess Jack is too old for pictures.  Actually, I was with Jack on the big kid side of the Easter Egg hunt and I didn’t have the camera.  No matter, I think Jack only got about 1-2 eggs.  The big kids just demolished the field of eggs. 

Fobbers…

A-ha!  This is how you train your kids to be fobbers!!

Aya and Stacy playing ‘Sushi’.  Aya is the sushi chef and Stacy is the customer.  Stacy loves it when Aya speaks to her in Japanese.  Stacy thinks it is the funniest thing!

Bike…

Stacy is trying out Jack’s old balance bike:

Hopefully this bike teaches Stacy how to balance so when it comes time to ride a bike she will be used to trying to balance without training wheels: