My “happy little helper” helping me wash cars on the weekend:
Not only does she rinse but she dries:
And unlike Jack who just watches me wash cars and/or leaves after we do one car, Stacy does both cars and she takes her time and does a good job:
Stacy has a best friend at school named Sadie and she invited Stacy over to celebrate her 4th birthday. It was Stacy’s first birthday party invite where she was not a tag along to one of Jack’s friend’s party.
It was also the first party where a ‘healthy’ lunch was served:
But they had cake:
And Stacy planted a flower at the party:
No it is not what you think, so hold your congratulations! Jack was NOT student of the week due to merit or outstanding academic achievement, it was just his turn to be on the pinup board of his class. Jack and his teacher:
Student of the week ended up being more work for Aya who had to print out stuff that Jack liked, but it all turned out pretty nice:
What happened to good karma??? All the Dodger games we have gone to this year the Dodgers have won. I had tickets to game 3 of the NLCS but someone in our group couldn’t go to game 4 so they asked to trade nights. I decided to be ‘nice’ and I traded and the Dodgers won game 3. Sadly, the Dodgers lost game 4…the game we went to!! ARGH! Lesson, be more of a dick and do NOT do something nice.
In any case, it was fun at the game. We got there early and since we had to park in general parking we saw some photo ops that we usually don’t see like the Dodger bobblehead.
Jack saw all the cholo’s on the big screen and he wanted to look like them…minus the LA hand sign.
It was great to see all the fans into the game…standing…waving towels…it was great…too bad the Dodgers lost:
Fall?? Nah…not here in LA. With all the warm weather we have been having we headed out to the pool. The kids trying to jump in at the same time:
Fun times at the pool!!
Stacy’s reward for going to basketball is she usually gets a snack bag as well. Stacy is enjoying her fruit roll-up that just keeps on going:
And going…
And going…
Man, basketball is in full swing for Jack now. We are now practicing twice a week on Thursday and Saturday. Jack has games on Saturday and Sunday. Jack also has club team practice Sunday afternoons. Crazy how much basketball he is playing now.
So far, all the practice has been great for Jack as he is putting it all together on the court. I moved Jack to point guard now:
I think it was the smartest decision I could have made. He is running the squad great, attacking and passing:
Too many turnovers for my taste, but he is crossing kids over, scoring at will…he just has to get better at reading the defense and not trying to split the double and triple teams:
Definitely been leading the team…so happy Jack is balling out well.
We were invited to a BBQ over the weekend. We thought it would be something simple, burgers…dogs…basically a play date with food. Turns out it was a big party! Lots of food, drinks, bouncer, magician….good times!
For some reason I thought Stacy looked older than she is in this picture, sometimes I forget she is 3…most of the time I think of Stacy being the same age as Jack:
The magician:
Of course, Stacy asked for balloon dog!
I came home early one day and Stacy was painting a picture at Grandma’s house:
Stacy was taking her time, changing the colors, staying in the lines:
And she did a great job:
Beautiful!!
I am lucky that Stacy started gymnastic during the week and it is 2 blocks from work. I am able to stop by at lunch and watch some of her lessons. Stacy does a great job at gymnastics. The Bear Walk:
Bars:
Rings:
Stacy was swimming so well that the teacher told us not to quit and to move Stacy up a level. With Jack we always quit when school started because we didn’t want him to get sick and he was terrible. With Stacy she loves to be in the water that we decided to keep it up. I am thinking if Stacy learns to swim better than Jack than Jack will want to swim more as well.
Stacy has so much fun in her class:
And seems to like the group class more than the private class:
Right now she is the worse one in the group but hopefully it makes her try harder and gets better quicker.
Look who else started school this year…STACY!! Stacy started preschool at the same school Jack went to:
I thought school would be a mad house the first day but it seems like a lot of the kids started in the summer so it was business as usual the first day:
Stacy was excited to start school:
And seemed to settle in just fine:
But then Stacy got a little sad over the next few days and didn’t like school very much. Near the end of the week she made some friends and now she enjoys going to school!
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:
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!!
