From the category archives:
The paintballers returning from battle
We all went on Owen’s birthday camping trip this year (some of the early years are here and here).
One of this year’s highlights was a paintball session. “Unfortunately,” Fiona and I couldn’t go because 10 was the minimum age. For once, it didn’t rain during the campout, although it was chilly.
Click here for some photos from this year’s adventures.
Fiona had a great time Saturday at her classmate’s birthday party at the Doylestown Rock Gym. As usual, she was fearless and shot right up the wall.
She seemed to really like working her way up the wall using the “rocks,” as she especially liked the ride back down to the ground. They also climbed rope ladders and rope nets.
The gym offers a day camp and Fiona said she’d like to try it, so maybe we’ll add that to her summer schedule.
(Oh yeah, we’ll just squeeze it in along with gymnastics camp, baseball camp, a solo visit to Aunt Jo & Uncle Keban’s, a few weeks at CEC, a visit to Quebec City.)
CLICK HERE for more photos of Fiona rock climbing.
Owen (on left) charges to score a point.
Owen had another fencing tournament this weekend. A couple of months ago, he fenced generally the same group of kids and finished third. He improved to finish second in this tournament, knocking off the #1 seed in the semi-finals.
CLICK HERE for more photos of Owen’s fencing tournament.
In between birthday parties and fencing, there were baseball games. And then there were more baseball games. And, I think after that, we went to MORE baseball games.
Fiona is a stand-out slugger in t-ball, although she sometimes spaces out when she’s supposed to be catching the ball at first and insists on throwing it back to the catcher softball-style; Owen is a legendary hitter in minors and has developed into an outstanding catcher (one of his best attributes as a catcher is his ability to manage the pitchers and get them to throw strikes) and Jack did it all this weekend in rec and travel: catcher, pitcher, third base and I lost count of the number of hits.
CLICK HERE for a collection of the weekend’s baseball photos.
Fiona is down and ready to field the next hit
I love how Owen digs in at the plate; no one is brushing him back
Great play! Jack gets the runner out at third
Owen went to his first fencing tournament that wasn’t an in-house BCAF competition. We went down to Philly so he could fence in a youth foil tournament for kids born 1999-2002 (how that is U10, I don’t really know, but there’s a lot about fencing that we don’t get yet. For example, why do they use electric equipment if the director doesn’t seem to pay any attention to it when he/she is awarding touches? )
He lost at least three bouts because of yellow/red card penalty points. [click to read more]
Owen’s playing rec baseball for Solebury this year, in the 10-11 division. His team is the Dodgers and is coached by Kevin. It’s a great group of boys and they’re learning a lot of baseball.
Owen has been awesome at catcher and has logged some innings pitching (a first for him.) And, of course, we’ve always known he is a slugger. I wouldn’t be surprised if he puts one out of the park this summer.
Jack and Owen have qualified for the MAWA Regional Tournament every year they’ve entered. That’s four years for Jack and three for Owen. Jack’s first qualification was in 2006 and his most recent was last weekend (we took 2009 off). Every time, they’ve either qualified in first place or second.
Here’s a little overview of Jack and Owen wrestling in the MAWA tournaments through the years: PHOTOS HERE.
Mawa Qualifiers Through the Years
“Good Dancing Restores The Community To Wholeness”
(African proverb)
The third grade at Germantown Academy has been studying Africa since they returned from Christmas vacation. Among the topics they’ve studied are masks, stories, food, culture, geography, music; but, mostly importantly, they studied DANCE.
The students have been working each week this year with Jeannie Osayande, director of the Dunya Performing Arts Company, and drummers from company.
Yesterday, just before early dismissal for yet another (!) snow storm, the third grade presented [click to read more]
Owen placed third in his first “real” (electric, not dry) foil tournament Sunday. He was amazing and the best thing was that he got exponentially better as the day went on.
The tournament was supposed to have two groups, 10 and under (Owen is nine) and 12 and under. But, there weren’t enough 10 and unders, so they combined the groups. Ten and under was supposed to be dry, but once they combined the groups, they decided to lend Owen electric gear so everyone could fence the same way. He was VERY excited about this because he’s only used practice gear. [click to read more]
Since I’m never going to have time to blog about any of these events individually, I put them all together. I put captions under most of the photos to explain them. There’s even a bizarr-o photo in the collection!
Selection of photos from December.
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