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:

Baseball–Game 3

I sat in the bleachers for game 2 and I let the other dads help out because they are more than willing to help out.  At practice the coach asked me to get more involved and help coach on game days.   I have in the background in the Astros jersey telling the kids where to go on defense.  I said I would help but I don’t really want to…and Aya had the camera again…so this is the best we have for the game 3 recap.   Jack was slow at the pitchers spot this week and was slow to get to the ball:

But on offense he went 2 for 3…but he has got to stop watching his ball and run!!

Waiting for a fellow Marlin to knock him in!

So being unorganized the coach lets the parent rep pick the batting order and Jack always bats near last.  He is one of the better hitters and they give him the least at bats.   Jack getting ready to drive in some runs:

Baseball practice…

It is the age old dilemma, do you want to have the worse kid on a good team or the best kid on a bad team?   Jack is on a TERRIBLE baseball team.  Jack is not the best one on the team but considering he is the only one not to have played t-ball he is one of the better players…maybe the second best player on the team.    The other teams are well coached and well organized and our team is far from that!

Jack getting some BP in at practice:

Big swing:

Good contact:

Umm, you should be running but instead he is watching the ball go!!

Baseball–Game 2

Jack scoring a run in his second game:

Jack enjoying some time behind the plate catching:

Jack should pay me money for making him look good…because for the most part the balls are all going past Jack.  If the ball doesn’t go to Jack he doesn’t even attempt to move to catch the ball…but hey he looks good.

Aunty Dawn and Uncle Bryan came to watch:

Grandpa and Grandma are regulars:

And luckily this game I got to sit in the stands and take pictures:

Burger Crawl Part 2…

We tried to go to a few more places but they were either closed or a line out the door.   So we ended up at Hole in the Wall burger:

I think this was our consensuses favorite burger:

We bypassed some places in the hood and went to a the hipster joint Short Order at the Grove:

After the giant potato wedges, burger, beer and milkshake we were done:

Burger Crawl Part 1…

To celebrate Jenny’s birthday we went on a burger crawl.  We had a list of over 20+ burger joints we wanted to go to but we cut it down to 8-10 based on proximity.   The goal was to each eat 1/3 of a burger at every place.  Maybe get fries, maybe get a beer…but not at every place.  Sadly, we only made it to 4 places before we called it a night due to full-ness.

Up first was the original Father’s Office in Santa Monica:

We were actually pretty hungry and realized after we ate that we didn’t take a picture of the burger.   We didn’t make the same mistake ay Burger Lounge on 3rd Street:

Aya using the camera again.  She was so proud to get the sign AND Jenny and I in the picture…only problem is that you can hardly see us.

Josh’s Birthday…

Jack went to Joshua’s 7th birthday at El Dorado bowl:

The kids bowled 2 games but after 1 game Jack was done and ready to EAT.  Just like his mom, Jack was more interested in the food and was first one in the party room getting a head start on the food and drink.  I mean he was in there 5-10 minutes before the others kids:

Goofy picture time: