The Twins +1 Daily

1.23.2015

Ben Polo - first goal of career

Ben was playing water polo splash ball for the last couple seasons. It's just for 10 and under's to get familiar with polo, the ball, swimming, etc.

Now (age 10) he's joined the Carlsbad polo club team and playing on 12U white 2. Played in firest couple tournaments in January, and started getting bummed that he hasn't scored a goal yet.

Dan took him to tournament in OC at Costa Mesa. Grandma/pa Hanan were there to watch as well.
B SCORED! FIRST GOAL OF CAREER!

Other team scored, so we were starting the ball at half pool. Pass back to teammate, and over to Ben at the side of the pool, "3 strokes in from half" as he recalls. Draws a foul, and (with his free pass) lobs a shot up from near mid-pool and over the goalie to the opposite left/back corner. YA BABY!

Next tournament (the next weekend), he scored from 2m hole set.

11.06.2014

Game Results

Avery - volleyball

Torrey Pines. 17-15 in the 3rd.
Avery scooped ball out of the net to keep rally alive at 16-16.
Varsity and JV watching, cheering. Tunnel after the game.
(Only played them once, at their place, since they're not in our league)

Vista. Crushed them.
Avery served 19 straight. Mix of jump floats and spin jumps.
Set the second game. Served a handful more.

LCC - beat them in 2 at our place (lost to them at their place)
Played great, good team result.
Pat Powers came to watch (recruiting for his club) and was impressed with Avery play.
With that win, Carlsbad and LCC tied for the league title at 11-1

Connor - polo

10.14.2014

4.27.2013

Ben Rides His Bike!

Finally! Ben (will be 9 in 2 months) got fired up to learn to ride his bike (actually Connor's old bike). Dad runs along side him for the morning session, holding it by the handle, but not needing to help hardly at all. Then after lunch, another session, and now he's riding solo!

Funny - he was talking about Yosemite (from the point of view of biking) while I was running around next to him on the bike.

We even went around the little block after a while!

Way to go Baby B!

4.04.2013

TV Shows They're Into These Days

We still watch Survivor religiously (meaning we watch every episode, eventually - although way behind real-time). Daddy has never missed an episode in the 20-something seasons it's played.

They're recently into some older shows:

Batman (the older original ones. POW, BANG, etc)
Curious George (Ben still likes to catch up on CG with some chocolate milk if he has a say in it)
Brady Brunch
Phineas and Phurb
Ben into James Bond movies lately

Veady!

Ben has been doing this for a LONG time now, and we think it's so dang cute.

He goes up to brush teeth, and then when he's "ready", he stands at the top of the stairs and yells down:

"Veady" (still kind of throws a V in when he says an R, depending on the word)
"Are you both coming up?"

Cute boy.

2015 update - he has added to his repertoire with more status:

"RBR" (ready but reading)

Going up to brush teeth, "Will notify when ready"

2.23.2013

Ben's Epic Day v2

Last time Ben and Daddy were solo, he had an epic day. Today was v2.

Jamie and Avery are in OC watching a water polo tourney (Stanford and Maggie Steffens are there, Avery dying to see it, take a picture with her). Connor in Fallbrook at MP/Ya Ya's for hoops tourney tomorrow, and Ben and Dan are at home for hoops, soccer, and hoops tomorrow.

Today's Schedule

Basketball practice. Tolerated it, as it's the last one of the season.
Home Depot - kids craft. Built a wood fire truck.
Einstein Bagels - chocolate chip bagel with cream cheese (Daddy got one too, but with butter)
Arena Soccer at the Y - Hayden's first time playing with the team, and they score with 15 seconds left to break the tie and win!
Hayden, Peter Rubin, Emily Nelson come up to the house and play most of the afternoon.
Soup Plantation
Star Trek: Next Generation, episode 1 on NetFlix

Whew - is there anything else that you'd rather be doing?