Throwback Thursday

 I found this picture of Brad in Little League in a green and yellow uniform.  I wanted to recreate it with Evan and green and yellow uniform this year.  The programs that I tried to use to age Evan's picture kept crashing.  If I wait for it to be perfect, you'll never see it.  So I hope you enjoy it anyway.  Below are two "action shots" of Evan catching and batting.  Both Cole and Evan's teams won their little mid-season tournament, so they are "City Champs."

Easter pictures

 And lest you think we are a picture perfect family. . . ..

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

Let's see if I can get this posted before we head back out to the ball field. . .
Our schedule today:
8:15 am Evan's baseball pictures
10:00 am Evan's game
11:00am Cole's pictures
12:15 Cole's game
2pm Xavier's pictures
3pm Brad has concession stand duty
5pm Xavier's game

I guess that means we are right about the 7th inning stretch now.

This year Cole is playing for the Cubs again.  Evan is on the Oakland A's "PeeWee" team, and XAVIER is on the field with the Corpus Christi Hooks and his dad as the head coach.  Evan had a good hit but wasn't able to score; Cole scored, had a hit, and pitched the last inning in his 5-1 win.  Xavier hasn't played yet, but it's TBall, so he wins.  Time for us to get back to the field!

Cole coming home

More Gym meet results

Evan on rings at Boerne meet

We have returned this evening from the Austin Spinner Invitational Meet and all the boys were in bed early, so I have a little time to get this post published.  These are pictures from the past two weeks, but not today.  Brad is also asleep on the couch, (I did say ALL the boys didn't I?) so I won't start downloading pictures, etc. but I will include results from today.

Cole did well today, and so did Evan, although Evan didn't medal today.  Evan's Level 4 Team did win 1st place in the Team category.  Evan's high score today was a 9.9 on rings which ranked him 15th out of 40.
Today, Cole competed against only age 9 Level 5's.  (He usually competes with 9 and 10 year olds.) He placed 3rd on Rings, 4th on Parallel bars, and 7th All Around, out of 24 competitors.

Here are the results from last week's meet in San Antonio.
Evan Schuelke
35 Total Competitors in the 7-8yo Age group
Event    Floor         Pommel    Rings     Vault      PBars      High Bar    AllAround
score     10.200      8.700         9.200     8.900      9.100      9.200          55.300
Rank     5               15T            23T        26T        24T         20T           19

Cole
50 total competitors in the Level 5, 9&10yos
Floor     Pommel    Rings      Vault     PBars     High Bar    AllAround
8.300    9.300         9.300       9.100    8.800      8.300        53.100
38T       19T           18            36T       27T        22T           24T

Evan on high bar at Boerne meet

Cole on high bar at Boerne meet

A different view of the back lever during the Alamo meet

The Back lever pictured below is a position that must be held to receive credit. These are not "in motion" snapshots.  Evan performs this skill also.

Cole "rockin' the back lever" at the Boerne meet

Cole on PBars at Alamo meet

Evan on pommel at Alamo meet

More to come!

Plethora of Perler beads

A little artwork for you today.  My boys have discovered perler beads, also known as melty beads and fuse beads.  Small cylindrical beads are placed on a peg board, then ironed to melt together.  Turns out, it is a somewhat addictive little past time.  That's fine by us because it is great fine motor skill training AND as Brad pointed out, considerably cheaper than LEGOs.

Evan's heart (for Mom)

Cole's gymnast on high bar:

His own creation (no pattern).  The instability of the letters USA led us to purchase another 11,000 beads in order to get some "clear" beads to try to stabilize the banner. 

 

Xavier's sunflower.  Picasso would be proud.  Xavier also invested in some "Biggie Beads" which are much larger and easier to work with.

 

 

Xavier also finally got to do a punch metal art project.  He painted the frame all by himself, too.

 

What did you create today?

First Meet Results

     
These are the results of the Star Center Invitational meet held at St. Edward's University. Evan won 7th on pommel horse and I won 13th on parallel bars. I also got 22nd on all around and Evan tied for 27th. Our scores and rankings on the six events are displayed on the chart below. We put links to videos to the events we placed on at the bottom of the post.

            Floor          Pommel Horse           Rings          Vault          Parallel Bars        High Bar    AA

Evan    9.100             9.100                   9.300           7.800           9.600                9.400      54.300

Rank    T 29                 7                       T 30           T 46                T 17                T 30         T 27

Cole    7.300             8.500                     9.700          9.000             9.600              9.800       53.900

Rank   40                  18                         T 16           T 29               13                    T 17         22

AA= All Around
T= Tied

 Evan and I only won one medal because they only gave medals to 15th and better, but I don't compete for medals. I compete for the fun of it . There were 51 competitors in each level. Evan and I are in different levels so we don't compete against each other. Olympia Hills also won 2nd place team in level 5, 4th place team in level 4, 7-8 yo.

Here is a video of Evan's 7th place performance on Pommel Horse.

Here is a video of Cole's 13th place routine on Parallel Bars.

Our next meet is in Boerne on February 2nd.

School

Just in case you were wondering what I do in school here is one of the math assignments I have every Tuesday called balance benders.