Pool time…

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:

New Desk…

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:

More Mother’s Day…

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!

Open House…

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:

Ditch Day…

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:

First Dance…

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.

Mother’s Day…

Jack made a vase and a card for Mother’s day:

Here is the card:

Practice…

In between baseball, Jack still has basketball practice.  We have the Tigers Tournament coming up and we hopefully can improve from the WLA showing.  Luckily, Dawn and Bryan continue to come out to work the kids through drills:

Hopefully Jack gets better…at least in photos he looks good:

In reality it is more like this in the game:

Gymnastics…

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:

More Baseball…

We missed team pictures, so Jack had to take a make up photo.   I managed to get a good photo…I hope it isn’t better than the one I had to pay for!

Can you believe it, old stone hands in football, has nice soft hands with the leather:




I couldn’t believe it!  I was just waiting for him to drop the ball at the end.  Amazing!

Baseball…

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:

Water…

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:

WIN!!

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.

Pool Part 2…

The kids jumping in together:

Ahhh…fun times.

Pool Part 1…

We had great weekend weather so we headed up to the pool.  You can’t turn your back on Stacy for a second at the pool.  Even though she is water safe, she thinks she can swim like a fish.

All set to jump in the pool:

Fun in the sun: