Such is a typical day in the Bicoy household.
The day began with yet another football game for Bretty's team, the Bobcats.
Unfortunately, they were playing the best team in the league, the Desert Heat. Here's our boy lining up (number 22)...
He did his part and played well...
On this play below, he even helped spring their running back to a touchdown and a (albeit brief) 7 to 6 lead...
The Desert Heat consits entirely of 8 year-olds who have been playing together for 2 to 3 years already. Our beloved Bobcats are ages 6 to 8 and this is their first season together.
The Bobcats just couldn't keep up...
But that didn't stop us from cheering on our boys.
Here is Cari next to her friend Angela...
Angela's half Filipino. Apparently my wife is a Filipino groupie. She just gravitates to us.
Must be the pheromones.
David was the only of our other children to join us for today's showdown in the desert.
He was totally enthralled and couldn't take his eyes of the game...
Actually, we're pretty sure David came along because we normally head out for brunch after Bretty's games.
Today is David's birthday so we thought we'd try something new.
So we visited Hash House A Go Go.
Yes, that is really it's name.
You've never seen so much food on a plate in your life.
Here are the boys cheeseburgers -- and remember, these are kids portions...
The adult meals are just, well, to borrow a word from our three year old daughter, the plates are just gianormous.
Here are Cari's eggs, potatoes, and apple cinnamon pancake...
See, "gianormous" is exactly the right word!
David really wanted to go swimming on his 9th birthday, and since spring has sprung in Las Vegas, we thought we'd take advantage of the 75 degree weather.
We turned on the pool's heater and even though it was warm outside, we made the pool into a bathtub. We heated it to 90 degrees which is a good thing because Kekoa is really, really skinny...
Cari and the little girls loved it as well...
Here are Bretty and David showing off their best canonball...
Alyssa got in the pool as well but wouldn't let us take her picture.
This is the first time we've used the pool in the last four months because of the cooler weather of the desert winter.
Alyssa wore the bottom of her old bathing suit but had to wear the top of one of Cari's old suits. It appears that Alyssa's, well, you know, kinda blossomed, I guess, over winter and, um, couldn't squeeze, uh, into her old, well, bathing suit top.
Okay. Next subject.
Today is David's birthday, so we had to celebrate.
In the Bicoy fashion, the birthday boy or girl chooses their meal and type of cake.
David selected a chocolate birthday pie...
Here are all the kids singing "Happy Birthday" to David. Naturally, Bretty has to make a face and Kekoa can't stop thinking about the pie...
David has become quite an avid reader and has been placed in an accelerated reading group at school. He is only in 3rd grade but is reading at a 7th grade level. He is by far the most naturally athletic of our children, but his nose is always buried into a book. Cool, huh?
He's currently working his way through the "Harry Potter" series, but I decided it was time to introduce him to the greatest book of my youth...
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by the late Douglas Adams.
Not the crappy movie, but the remarkably funny book. I got my version as a boy travelling with my parents through Europe. It was the British version complete with their silly spelling (hey, we rescued their rear end in WWII so they should adopt our spelling!). My copy sits on my bookshelf today. I even have a birthday card autographed by Douglas Adams courtesy of Matt Shepard, my roommate from my old days at Tufts University.
So rather than give David my old copy, I wanted him to have one of his own.
It makes you remember how old you're getting when you're buying the books you loved in your younger days for your own children!
Anyway, while he reads at a 7th grade level, he's still just 9 and loves his toys. His brothers and sisters bought a cool lightsaber for him. Here he is in the dark with his newest toy...
We also got him a book of ridiculous inventions. David loves to dream up new ideas and sketch out inventions of his own.
Here's my favorite idea from David's new book...
It's a grid on the back of the shirt so you can call out the specific spot you want scratched.
I gotta get me one of these. I could tell Cari where to scratch with pinpoint accuracy. I'm sure she'd love that!
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