Feb

What's up in Weil-land lately? Suprisingly much. With a calm section of the kids sports calendar on us, we're staying pretty busy doing other fun stuff that we otherwise never have time to do. Matthew's basketball season wrapped up a couple weeks ago with a loss to a St Joe's team in the St Pius tournament. He had a pretty good game, I think he scored half our points (8 of 16 if I remember) and only took like 5 or 6 shots. We'd like to see him getting the ball out away from the basket more and using his driving/jump shot more, hopefully more of that will come next season. Steven is the only one currently playing anything, his upward basketball. He borders on domination out there(ok, this is his dad talking). He does really well if he decided he wants to - that's the tricky part with him. Looking forward to him playing for IHM next season with his classmates and better competition. Should be great fun to watch.

We're in the calm before the storm hits us now - baseball on the verge of starting up for real (had some indoor practices, and a few trips hitting at the cage), combined with Spring soccer for Matthew, Steven and Kelsey. March, April and May will be a blur. After arguably the mildest winter ever - high is 60 today, and we've had exactly 1 hour delay this school year - I'm still looking forward to warmer/longer days.

As for the other fun stuff we've been doing lately, let me try and list a few that I remember us doing:

CovCath/HolyCross basketball playoff game - we drove over to NKU last night to watch the Ash Wednesday clash of two Catholic schools in the playoffs. Packed gym, we had to stand the whole time. Carson is a trooper man, hanging out in his stroller, and Kelsey spending half the game down entertaining him. CCH won in triple overtime, it was crazy. Holy Cross almost won it in regulation with a full court, last second, one armed missle throw Brett Farve would have been proud of - off the back iron.

Turfway Park - been wanting to do this for a while, and finally got around to it. We up there on a President's Day, Monday for an afternoon of racing. It was sunny and warm enough that we could stand outside and watch the horses run. It was easy to kill the 20 minutes between races while standing down there- watching the winner in the winner's circle, jockey's weighing in, the next race horses getting ready, feeding the guide horses mints, etc... The kids loved it, we watched 4 races, and gambled on 3 of them. We only had 1 winner - Steven hit a 9-1 shot to win on my 2 dollar bet. Standing at the finish line, and seeing his #6 horse pass Matthew's at the last second, steven was shouting with pumped fists in the air - ya, 16 bucks baby!!! (at that time, we thought it was 8-1). Hopefully we didn't create a monster here... (Note, his new glasses, he just got them last week. He couldn't read a digital clock from 15 feet away. He's adjusting pretty well to them so far, and hasn't even lost them yet- impressive). In the final race, we all made 2 dollar bets - 9 horses in the field, we bet 5 of them to win - and we all lost. Total lost on the day, probably 20 bucks - pretty fun.







TMC - we went and watched the Thomas More women's team play last week. Cindy's co-worker has a daughter on the team, so we've been meaning to get to one. Again this year, they're really good, so it was a fun game to watch. All was going fine and dandy, until team mascot - Tommy Mo - came to pay us a visit. Carson didn't like Tommy Mo. He spent the rest of the game, 3 quarters of it, tucked in Cindy's arms, facing away from the court to avoid making further eye contact with Tommy. (pictured)



hmmm... anything else? I'm trying to remember other fun things we've done lately. We did go roller skating a few weeks ago, I can't remember if I already wrote about that. Kelsey, Steven and Matthew spent about an hour and a half on the skates, doing circles. Steven spent considerable time on the ground, Kelsey was moving at about .0005 miles per hour, but stayed on her feet well.

In running news - trying to maintain half-marathon training. So far it's going well (talk to me in another month when kids sports have consumed our lives). Ran 7 again on Monday, did 7 last weekend too. Mix that with a 3 or 4 miler during the week, my men's indoor soccer team on Monday nights, and I'm getting some good cardio going. I went up to Central Park to run my 7 Monday, first time I've done that since marathon training 3 years ago. So, that was nice little trip down memory lane. I got up there around 9:00am, and the gates were still locked. So, I parked down the road semi-legally - and hopped the fence. I had the whole damn park to myself. :)

Things going alright at rentals, a vacancy at our real nice place on Garrard begins April 1st, so I'm actively advertising that - 2 showings today at lunch time. We have a small tile/shower issue at Greer (pictured). We rehabbed almost that entire apartment last year, but didn't touch the shower. Maybe we should have. So, that needs fixed... I think last post, I mentioned the tenant that owed us money from 3 years ago contacting us out of the blue. He's moving in to another vacancy we have May 1st - so, that worked out nicely. Ok, that's enough - back to my portugese.