Phoenix has now completed 4 of her 6 basketball games. I was finally able to go to my first game last Friday, which was her last away game. We braided her hair for the first time in a very long time the night before. Keith and I picked up Rubix and arrived at the Pinewood gym in time to watch the girls warm up for their 4 pm game.
It was a tough game and the girls played really hard learning how to be aggressive. The other team taught their players to grab the basketball from their opponents which lead to more than 25 jump balls in one game! The girls lost 8 to 6 and ended up in tears, frustrated and shocked at how aggressive the other team was in taking the ball, rather than shooting the ball.
Here is Phoenix at the start of the game during the jump ball.
Here she is playing under the net.
Last week I was blown away with how much bigger Phoenix compared to Rubix. With just 3 years separating them, I was surprised to see how much taller she was than him all of a sudden.
We have continued to be blessed with rain and, yes, rainbows! Here is a beautiful rainbow from last Sunday that we were able to capture from our house after spending most of the day in the rain at another swim meet. After Phoenix had an amazing weekend last weekend we were excited for her to swim again at the DACA meet the following weekend. She did not disappoint with an amazing 200 free time that qualified for J.O times by over 2 seconds faster. Her splits were amazing with her first 50 ,34 seconds, and her second 50 yards, 39 seconds, her 3rd, 41 seconds and an amazing 34 second last 50 to come in at 2:33.54. She was frustrated to get the exact same time in her 100 IM which was again an A time standard but a quarter of a second off of the J.O. time standard. The following day she was able to qualify for the 100 breast but was frustrated with her 100 free. You would think if she could do a 34 second first and 4th 50 free in the 200 that she could get 1:10 for the 100 free, but somehow her second 50 was just too slow and she got a similar time as the week before a couple of seconds off of qualifying J.O. time. Great news is she is now going to J.O. for 4 events, the 50 fly, the 50 breast, 100 breast and the 200 free, which means that she will be participating in all 3 days of J.O.s.
Both Rubix and Phoenix were chosen for the all- star team and will be going to Santa Rosa to compete in the meet Saturday Feb. 25th and 26th. Phoenix will have to catch the team bus and go with the team. Rubix, because he is under 8 will go with us. He still participates in the team dinner the night before, but he sleeps with us rather than his team mates.
I was able to go with Phoenix and her 4th grade class to the Exploratorium in San Francisco on Tuesday. Here is Kylie and Phoenix on the way up in the bus.
I had 5 kiddos in my group which made it interesting to keep track of and make sure the boys and girls agreed on where we went. Here is Phoenix shooting baskets with the glasses that move the basket to the right.
On the way home Phoenix and several other classmates were tired!
Rubix had a field trip on Thursday and on Friday was the first grade Valentine's breakfast where the parents were able to spend the morning with their 1st graders. You may be able to tell that Rubix has a bit of a cold.
Yummy waffles with whipped cream!
Today was our first day of having some down time. Axel did masters swim and then went to get his last 2 baby teeth extracted. He was pretty upset with me as they had to dig out a root. I had been trying to make this appointment since October and I happened to follow up yesterday and they said, we have an opening tomorrow at 9am so I took it and sprung the news on Axel.
