The boys love Ottawa

We found the patisserie where Obama buys his cookies. Yum. Parliament is about this big.

Martin turns 6

Happy birthday Marty! Here he is with his Millennium Falcon cake and brand new Star Wars old school t-shirt. Yes, at 6 he was finally allowed to see Star Wars, and now life is all blasters and shooting and light sabers and fighting. As long as it's to save the galaxy and not just to torment your brother then I'm okay with it. Airplane fascination continues, and Lego brain as well.
The stats: Marty is 50.75" and 53.8 pounds ... so he grew over 3 inches in the last year, and as his doctor pointed out "kids just don't do that". His BMI is 14. That's awesome.


And here is a close-up of that Millennium Falcon cake. Yeah, I did that.

PMC kids ride 2010

Allez Marty! Allez Thom! The boys lined up for another year of riding for the cause, and they did great! A beautiful day, no rain this year, and this time in May and in the afternoon. Thom rode 3 whole laps (2.4 miles) and Marty repeated last year's epic 10 lap total (8 miles). Look at those skinny legs! Andy Schleck has nothing on this kid :)

Loose Tooth Comes Out

After a week and a half of wiggling, the loose tooth came out cleanly after dinner. Now Marty has a nice jack o'lantern smile. Way to go, big boy!

This is Playoff Hockey

Marty got to play some playoff hockey for the Chicago Blackhawks. Games on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Mostly playing defense, and learning so much.
Two two-minute shifts per period.
Send it up the boards!
Marty even got an assist, his first playoff point!
WYH did a great job with the tournament, too. The kids had a lot of fun and got to play a lot of hockey.

Tykes End of the Season

Tom finished up his first season in Tykes playing a real game, getting a trophy and having a pizza party.
Look at him on the bench there, he was so psyched!
Tom is totally kick-*&s. He wants the puck and just goes for it. All with that cute little grin and a lot of trash-talking.
Yeah, he was mesmerized by that trophy.

Hockey Update

Happy Spring everyone!

Last weekend Marty moved up to Mites and joined his friend Jack on the Chicago Blackhawks team. This morning was his first game, and he did great. He skated so hard, on full ice, and he even got a shot on goal that went behind the goalie but not in because the goalie had come about 8 feet out of the goal. Granma, Granpa, and Thomas of course were in attendance to cheer him on. Way to go Marty.


Meanwhile in tykes, Tom continues to amaze, perfecting his Superman drill, putting more pucks in the net and trash talking Coach Bob.