Keith is coaching Rubix's soccer team this fall again. They are the Dark Knights because they received the black uniform this season. I was surprised to hear their first game was August 19th, but it was. August still seems like summer and not fall, especially because we hadn't started school yet. The Dark Knights came out with some good running, passing and kicking and easily won their first game.
Rubix has started to enjoy learning the game more and passing to his teammates.
The high school had orientation for the 9th grade parents on Tuesday August 15th. We had one parent ask us what we were going to do about cross country practice and making it to orientation on time and before we knew it, we had 4 other freshman who needed a ride from practice and a place to hang out. I went to orientation and Keith picked up Axel, Jonathon, Liam, Hoafang and Ava. I made sure to make a ton of food for them before I left. They had a blast hanging out together until 8:30/9 pm when all of the parents arrived at orientation.
Axel had field day on Thursday and met his advisory. He likes his advisor and he has mixed feelings about the 7 other freshman he is with. He will be with this group of students for the next 4 years, so I do hope he is able to enjoy being with these individuals. In high school they meet once per week to hang out with their advisory and do fun activities. The one rule is no homework or screen time during these 30 minutes together.
On Friday August 18th, Axel had his first matriculation ceremony. All of the students dressed up and signed the mission of the school paper that goes up for everyone to see it all year round. He said it was pretty cool. They also took Fall pictures and toured the campus.
I am too lazy tonight to put things in chronological order, but Rubix had his second game on August 26th. They won again!
Rubix listening to Coach Daddy.
Celebrating with ice cream/ graham cracker sandwiches.
On the 20th we met some of Axel's cross country team mates at the Crystal Springs Course. It was a nice and cool morning and the kids got to view and run the high school course which is almost twice as long as the middle school course.
Axel excited for his first day of school on August 21st!
Rubix shooting baskets at orientation on the 21st!
Rubix checking out his new glasses. He is amazed at how well he can see now!
Phoenix had orientation on Tuesday, but apparently I did not get any picture. Both of the little ones started school on Wed. the 23rd.
Here is Phoenix with her new Chromebook.
Our big 2nd grader!
It is hard to believe Phoenix is in her last year of elementary school. I am so proud of who the kids are becoming. I am honored to be able to raise them and be their mother.
Rubix with his 2nd grade homeroom class.
While the first week of school could have been the start of making great routines, our sports world has been a little amiss. First, Santa Clara Swim Club decided on a soft start at the last minute, so The boys only had 3 practices scheduled for last week and Phoenix 4 practices. Unfortunately, after practice on Wednesday night we woke up to find out that ISC broke and practices were modified. The kids were only able to swim either Thursday or Friday and the other day was an hour of dryland. To make matters worse, Axel had a cross country practice where the bus driver didn't understand the correct location so the team ended up being on the bus for an hour and a half and did not run! This week the kids were scheduled for only 2 swims and 2 dryland sessions. To make matters worse they combined groups together, so Axel ended up swimming with Rubix's group for the easiest practice ever! I am really not doing the crazy schedule justice, but it has been something you can only laugh at because everyone is beyond frustrated. I think we all appreciated the 5 months of swimming at other pools this year when ISC was down much better than not getting pool time for our swimmers. We are so fortunate to have a membership at Los Gatos Swim and Racquet Club because we have been there a lot over the past month since we had over a 2 week break and now two weeks with limited practices with the team. We are looking forward to ISC reopening tomorrow and getting back into a routine.
Axel has been doing a great job of handling 5 -6 days of running, especially because he is only swimming about 3-4 days on top of that per week. I am very curious to see how the next 2 months go for him. His school is off to an intense start with his first test today and 3 assessments on Thursday! He also had his first oral presentation in Japanese and has had multiple writing assignments in English. High school at Harker is no joke!
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