Pi Day

Happy Pi Day! To celebrate, I made jello pi for Alex's class. These are so much fun.

Zachary's class was also having their recycle fashion show today. Here's the class all dressed up in their outfits made of recyclables. I'm amazed at the creativity of these creations!

Zachary created a robot. His hat wasn't balanced well, and tended to fall off, but he made it through the fashion show without any problems.

Mady enjoyed the show and the after party!

After school, the boys headed up to UC Berkeley to participate in a study at the Early Learning Lab. Alex and Zachary both had an opportunity to be test subjects for a couple of studies.

To complete our very busy Pi day, we stopped for a pizza pi(e) on the way home!

She's Ready

Mady might be trying to tell me something. It's time to go!

Little League and New Years

Today was a jam-packed day of fun! The first thing we had on the agenda was getting little league uniforms and team pictures. Alex and Zachary are on the same team this year! We're so excited to see them play together and also to have half as many practices and games.

They are playing for the coach Alex had last year, so most of the players are returners too. Alex is keeping his number from last year, and Zachary is taking over the number for smallest player!

The Opening Ceremony followed our picture appointment. We're lacking in great pictures of the parade, but here is their team and banner. They're in the group somewhere!

After the parade of teams, we snuck out early and the boys did a quick change into their school uniforms and met up with classmates to perform at the Lunar New Year celebration. The kids sang a few songs in Chinese, and they all did a great job.

At the end of the show, there was a lion dance. The lions were very interactive with the crowd and so much fun to watch. Especially when they would creep up and scare the audience.

So proud of my handsome little men!

Purple Belt

Alex passed his belt test! Because we had Spark Day activities, he wasn't able to attend the belt ceremony. When he told Sifu he couldn't make it to the ceremony, he was given the option of doing 100 push-ups or making Sifu a sandwich. He chose to make the sandwich. So before class, he made a cheese sandwich by himself to deliver to Sifu! The sifus were very pleased with the sandwich and even posted it to their Facebook page! After class they presented Alex with his new, purple belt.

Spark Day 2014

It is Spark Day at the boys' school! This year Phil taught a class about statistics and probability called "What Are the Chances?" The kids played games with dice and drew marbles and tracked the results with graphs.

While Zachary and Phil were charting their results, Alex was upstairs in a Zumba class!

The instructor was great, and very high energy. I think Alex had fun. Mady was invited to dance too, but she was feeling a little shy.

Silly Girl

Mady makes waiting for her brothers after swimming lessons fun!

Purple Belt Test

Alex had his belt test for purple belt today. Here he is during his dagger routine.

Sifus addressing the class at the end of the test.

Everyone striking a pose!

Here is the video of his board breaking and self defense routine.

I feel compelled to say that the crazy lady yelling during the video is not me! Someone was very excited to be at the belt test. But Alex did a great job. In fact, after breaking the board (on the first try!), Sifu Sam checked his heel for foreign objects! We're proud of you Alex!