A little update.

Last week was the first practice for T-ball.  It was mostly catching and some hitting no games.  A couple more practices are left until the first game in June.  This year there will be a couple of games during the day on a Monday.  Why they scheduled a game when most parents are at work I don't understand. 

Still no word on soccer for Philip.  He's signed up but there aren't enough people for teams so the season may be cancelled.

Saturday was fun.

Last year Jimmy joined a group call WNY United agaist drugs and alcohol.  They have meetings and fun outings and raise money for chaities.  Saturday was WNY United day at the ball park.  The Buffalo Bisons (AAA team) let the group on the field before the game to present award to the principals of the participating schools.  All members got free tickets for the family.  That means all 4 of us were there free.  Jimmy was asked to help carry out the banner with the signatures of all the members.  It was cool to see Jimmy on the Big Board

Even before this when we first got there the boys played some $1 games in the concourse.  Philip won 2 free tickets for a game in May spinning a wheel. 

Then he played Plinko and won 2 more tickets.

Then after the 1st inning they had a race between 2 of the kids from the group out on the field.  We look and there's Jimmy on the field.  The race was sponsored by Adams Mark hotel; the winner gets dinner for 2.  They raced with a suitcase to another suitcase.  They had to throw on a shirt and hat and run back.  Somehow Jimmy won at the end with a big burst of speed.

Uggg

Tons of emails and blogs to catch up on.

Had appointments Monday and today. We missed the gym and Tae Kwon Do.

I have stuff to do for work at home that is taking forever.

Philip needs glasses. We went to the eye doctor and he's nearsighted so he jons the rest of us with glasses. The glasses there were $250. We took the prescription and drove th 1/2 mile to America's Best and paid $92 for 2 pair of glasses with warranty and one of the glsses has tint for summer.

I got an email from my class reunion people with names and addresses so I'll be looking through that too.

I'll catch up on stuff as I can.

The wind is gone for now. It's still cold here. 14 F when I left the house.

Buffalo schools are closed to today. The wife is stuck at home with the boys. Not sure I wanna go home today.

Tonight is the scholarship reception for Timon so we have a busy night. Philip will be downstairs with grandma while we are gone. He gets to miss religion class to night; it's ok since they will have a substitute tonight. Lisa is his teacher and she will be at Timon.

It freezing out but in just a few weeks it will be baseball signup for Philip.

16 blogs in 3 days and still more to go.

I’m working on a couple in Word and will be sending them out soon. So far it seems people want to know about the kidnapping more then anything else. Oh well that is one I’m working on.

This weekend I’ve had a bad cough. Saturday morning I was up at 4:30 and tried sleeping on the couch so the wife could sleep. Sleeping sitting up helped but laying down was torture

I did make it too the gym for an hour on Saturday but not Sunday. This coming week will be tough to get there.

So this past week: On Tuesday Jimmy hurt his knee at Tae Kwon Do. It’s only a hyper extension but he’s still having pain. We stayed home Wednesday. Thursday was the usual I get to stay home for a little while when Lisa taught religion. Philip is one of her students and Jimmy helps out in class.

Friday was the dinner so I skipped the gym. Saturday Jimmy took class but he had some pain. This sucks because he has a Level test for Tae Kwon Do on Wednesday at 7pm. If he passes he will be a 1^st Dan level 2. That leaves at least 2 years until the next black belt test.

Sunday was not pleasant with Jimmy. Girl trouble but that will be a different blog.

Philip had a great time watching AFV this week. He couldn't stop laughing.

Stuff from November.

It was the bomb.

Well ok it wasn’t a bomb but the school was locked down anyway. HA.

The boy’s school had a bomb threat and went into lock down on a Monday. No bomb was found but they kept the place locked down anyway. The next day the school gets another call. Gain no bomb but police from at least 5 agencies were at the school dragging some kids off the bus in cuffs.

On Monday the police got the phone records and found that the call came from a cell phone. The call was made that morning from inside the school. They got the name of the owner of the phone and did voice analysis on the little girl. They got her story. One of the older boys asked to borrow her phone for a minute Monday morning. On Tuesday they expected the call and waited for them. Turns out it was 3 boys working together on the calls. They were taken away and haven’t been back. There was a small article in the paper but the kids couldn’t be named because of age. Trouble is this is an elementary school and the kids were 15 and in 7^th grade. I could not imagine being 15 in 7^th grade. They would get out of High School at 20. I doubt they will make it that far though.

Here's a review of the weekend.

Saturday Philip had his Reading Rocks ceremony. The mayor of Buffalo has a summer reading program. You read 7 books and do a quick summary that gets sent to the mayors office. All participants get invited to the ceremony. We thought it would be a quick run in get a certificate and then leave. We get to the convention center, check in and get the certificate. We are told to go upsatirs. Upstairs is 250 tables and over 100 volunteers directing people. You get a free shirt, book (Treasure Island for Philip) pencils, note pad, game, and bookbag. We also get tickets to the Chineese auction and door prize. Philip won a $10 gift card to kaybe toys.

Other prizes were 55 bikes donated by #55 of the Buffalo Bills, 10 $50 bank accounts, 10 Ipods, and a ton of other things. The 1st prize was a $500 multi game set from ESPN. The grand prize was a $1250 college scholarship.

Only 900 kids in the city participated. There are over 40,000 eligible students.

Sunday we went to another open house to help Jimmy pick a high school. The Catholic schools go all out.

This video was shown at the school for one of their clubs. It's also used to promote how much technology the school has.

Had very little time to blog today.

Right after work the family went to America's Fair. Also known as the Erie County fair to normal people. Here's the link http://www.americas-fair.com/index.php. We went today for 2 reasons. 1 it was cheap today. 2. Kurt Busch was signing autographs.

The line to see him was huge. My future ex brother in law once removed was guarding Kurt's wife. (So he was watching Kurt's Busch.... Yes a very bad joke) But on the upside he got Jimmy a personnalized autograph.

Philip walked around with mom while I stayed in line for 2 hours with Jimmy. We missed a lot this year but we still have a week.

It rained today, the field was soaked and half the team didn't show up. Only 9 out of 18 were there (usually only 15 show up). The other team had everyone so were only had 3 subs for the game. During the game we had 2 kids hit in the face with the ball, one in the lower stomach and one in the chest. At the hits were full wind up kicks from less then 5 feet away. Of course when the other team scored first the parents couldn't help rub it in. Then, they were throwing in out of bounds balls from the wrong side of the line. Goalie kicks never made it past the line but were still played from where they went.

After all the pushing and cheating the other team did you'd think they'd win. Still undefeated with a 5 - 2 win!!!!!!!!!!

Soccer update!!!

Philip's team won 8-1 last night.

Monday - Was Philip's last T-ball game. After the game all the kids got a medal for playing. Then we had a pizza party. The coach bought pizza, one partent gave hime some money for it, we brought little hugs to drink. No one else brought anything.

For the past couple of games Jimmy has been helping out with the little kids on the team. He sets up the tee and helps with hemets.

Tuesday. - As said before Philip's soccer team won again. They played a bigger team and still pulled it out. One thing I noticed about the games: our coach makes sure every kid gets about the same amount of playing time and everyone gets a water break. The other coaches call plays and yell a lot. Interesting. Our coach tells the team to have fun; they see to like kicking the ball into the net.

Wednesday - the usual TKD for Jimmy. I went to the gym during his class.

Thursday - Double class at TKD. Extra time at the gym.

Both boys had back to school dr. visits that included shots. Glad I was at work for that.

Friday - Double class again. More time at the gym. One of his friends got hurt in class. She landed on her ankle. She seemed ok but was going for x-rays just in case.

Saturday:

Philip had T-ball in the morning.

We surprised the boys in the afternoon with a visit to Adventure Speedway. Spiderman was there at 3:00. Philip loves Spiderman. They have go carts, Jimmy has NASCAR on the brain and wanted to go on a go cart for weeks. So both boys got to do something at the same place. I took Phil on one ride so I couldn't get a picture of him in the car. He went on with his mom and I know she won't let me put one of the pictures up. So we have a pic of Jimmy in a go cart.

Sunday:

Nothing.

Monday:

Philip's birthday - he opened presents from us.

Tuesday:

Philip's Soccer game - it was our snack week so we took cupcakes and skippy cups. The guy that was supposed to bring drinks brought crackers for a snack.

Wednesday:

Philip's party that was supposed to be outside was moved inside because of the rain that wasn't supposed to happen until today. We got everything outside, then brought it all back inside. It worked out but we couldn't do the pinatta.

Saturday:

Philip had T-ball in the morning.

We surprised the boys in the afternoon with a visit to Adventure Speedway. Spiderman was there at 3:00. Philip loves Spiderman. They have go carts, Jimmy has NASCAR on the brain and wanted to go on a go cart for weeks. So both boys got to do something at the same place. I took Phil on one ride so I couldn't get a picture of him in the car. He went on with his mom and I know she won't let me put one of the pictures up. So we have a pic of Jimmy in a go cart.

Sunday:

Nothing.

Monday:

Philip's birthday - he opened presents from us.

Tuesday:

Philip's Soccer game - it was our snack week so we took cupcakes and skippy cups. The guy that was supposed to bring drinks brought crackers for a snack.

Wednesday:

Philip's party that was supposed to be outside was moved inside because of the rain that wasn't supposed to happen until today. We got everything outside, then brought it all back inside. It worked out but we couldn't do the pinatta.

Phil had another soccer game last night.

His team won again 6-0.

Here are some pix from the soccer game on Tuesday night.

Here are some pix from the soccer game on Tuesday night.

Philip's team won their first soccer game today!!!

Pictures tomorrow.