Red Flames Soccer, "Spring" (winter) 2010

Ethan played on the Red Flames 7-8 year old team this spring.  They have one game left on Friday evening.  Their record was not the greatest, but the kids sure had fun playing on artificial turf!

World Cup 2026?

J Crew Kids cover model

Action at the goal

The cheering section

Owen's New Bed

Tonight Lorri and I put the kids to bed and then settled in for a movie.  We watched "Yes Man" with Jim Carrey.  Funny movie, but not the highlight of the evening.  After the movie ended, I went back to check on the kids before hitting the rack myself.  Anna Grace needed some adjusting so she wouldn't roll off her bed, Ethan was fine, Jacob was fine....but Owen was nowhere to be found.  Not on his bed, not under his bed.  Not in his brother's beds, not in Anna Grace's bed.  Not in his closet, not in Anna Grace's closet.  Not in our bed, not in our closet, not lying in the pile of pillows on our floor.  Not in the play room, not in a bathroom, not in a bathtub.  Not somehow hidden in the living room, kitchen or laundry room.  I got Lorri in on the search and after five minutes of frantically turning on all the lights in the house, we found him:

We had to wake him up to get him out, and at first he was very confused and scared.  We finally managed to coax him out, though, and last I checked he was sound asleep on his own bed.

Tonight reminded me of the night at Pete and Linda's in July 2008 when we put Owen to bed on the big bed before transferring him to the play pen for the night.  The bed barely fit between the two walls in the room.  At one point in the evening I went to check on Owen and he was not in bed.  After some searching, I discovered he had rolled off the bed and was firmly wedged between the bed and the wall.

Did I mention that Anna Grace got herself firmly stuck between her mattress and footboard this evening?

Bubble World

Lorri is turning our family into a bunch of Broadway musical junkies!  In December Lorri and Jacob went to see The Nutcracker.  In January Lorri took Jacob and Ethan to see "Jump," a martial-arts based show.  Today, the entire family took a bus into Seoul and headed for the Myugbo Art Hall to see Fan Yang's "Bubble World."  I don't know, I guess as a child I simply lacked the vision of Fan Yang.  To somehow look into the future and see myself making a fortune by blowing bubbles...if only I had paid attention to the tea leaves!

The kids enjoyed the production quite a bit.  Of course, what would a trip to a theater be if one of the kids did not somehow end up on stage!  To top it all off, our tour was the first ITT tour to go to Myungbo Art Hall, so we got a bunch of free stuff.  Well, maybe not a bunch, but each of us got some bling to hang on our cell phones, and we took home two Bubble World mugs.

Fan Yang himself made the bubbles!

At one point I thought I was at a Pink Floyd Concert.

Jacob does his solo act.

Jacob is introduced to a new friend!

They had to get close so they could fit in a bubble together.

Back at the Pink Floyd concert.

Lorri and Anna Grace reaching for bubbles.

Ethan's shirt says it all.

Jacob and Ethan become part of the Yang clan.