My birthday

Was s'posed to post these last month but never got to it. Had family dinner at Sura's with the Murphy's & Dominique's children. Birthday cake was home baked by Robert - thanks! The next evening, Mervin and I had dinner at an Italian restaurant in Ponsonby, Pregos.

Year 2 Athletics

Many of you may not know this, but Mervin was a top sprinter in his school days (hard to tell now I know). Well at least the genes got passed on to one of the children. We saw it today at Erica's Athletics Day. All the children in the school had to participate in all 4 events - sprints, throws, high jump, long jump. Erica got gold in the sprints, throws and high jump making her the Overall 7 year old girls champion. We knew she had a very good chance at sprints as she won that last year as well but the win for the throws and high jump was a surprise.

The sprints finals was very exciting as you can see in the video. It was a very close fight!

Sprint finals.....

Prize Giving...

Baseball season

Baseball season has begun... which for Mervin and I mean no more sleep ins on Saturday mornings. We have to be at the games by 1/2 past 8! It's fun watching the kids though. Tim is in the Blue Jays (the red shirt is the Diamond Blacks Club shirt) Under 13s team and Erica's in the Blue Jays T-ball team.

The video shows Tim batting. Looks easy? Not quite. In this age group, you have to wait a while before someone hits the ball and there is action to cheer about! Otherwise you pretty much just sit there and encourage them to keep trying. We had to do that all of last year!!!
We were thrilled today when he got it at first strike! Way to go Tim!