Friday, February 24, 2012

The Kazmierski Week of Domination

Yes, the Kazmierskis are awesome.  As Ben would put it, "we dominated!".

The week started out with a wrestling tournament on Monday.  Andrew won all his matches, and took first place.  Joey won 2 our of 3 and took 2nd place.

I really hate watching my kids wrestle.  For one thing, I just don't get the sport. I don't know why anybody in their right mind would want to do that, plus I have no idea how they earn points or win the match.  All I know is that it's bad to be on the bottom.  But for some reason, the boys love it.  So I let them wrestle even though I'd rather stick a fork in my eye.

The boys did so well, I actually had a hard time holding myself back from apologizing to the parents of the boys they wrestled.  Andrew completely decimated his opponents, and I really felt sorry for them.  I actually was hoping that he'd just let them get a few points.  But he didn't.

Joey got to wrestle his friend Remington.  I don't know why I was worried that they would not like each other when it was all over.  They are so serious during the matches, but after they were done they started laughing, so all was good.  We don't have many pictures of Joey's matches because we were video taping them, but almost ran out of batteries.  So we have mostly video of Joey, and only pictures of Andrew.



(even the wrestlers on other mats couldn't take their eyes off the spectacle of Andrew pummeling his opponent) 

(Haley works for the high school wrestling team keeping score, so she watched over this tournament and kept me informed on how our boys were doing, although it was apparent even to me that they were winning.) 


(poor kid, he never had a chance...) 


And the medals were handed out... 

Ben took a picture of the boys while I stood there telling them to smile.  Joey said, "Coach said 'wrestlers don't smile'".  So they didn't.  Ever. 

***

Andrew had a huge project due this week.  It was called "The Tower of Self".  There were many, many requirements.  I helped him build the Lego football field for 4 hours.  Then we found pictures and printed out all of his goals, and all the other requirements.  It was a pain in my butt.


I even lugged the thing to school so he could present it.  He was the only one who had all of the requirements on his tower. 
Dominated.

***

And in addition to the tournament and the tower project (oh, not to mention, it's Symphony week), we also had the Pinewood Derby contest this week.

Ben worked harder on his car than anyone else around here, but it is totally awesome.



So off the boys and Grace went to the derby, while Haley stayed home with Matt (it's just much easier that way), and I went to rehearsal.  I got a text from Ben that said in the open class, he took first, Grace took 2nd, and Joey took 3rd.

Then they announced the winners of the pack race.  Andrew took 2nd place! 
Dominated.

I think all the other parents will have it in for us next year.  We better bring it! 



Andrew's trophy: 

And here's a picture of the open class winners.  Grace was so sad that they didn't give trophies to the open class.  And, I have to say, not giving awards to the open class is just stupid, and somebody is probably going to hear it from me.  What would 3 more trophies have cost?  Ten bucks?  Poor Grace was crying her big blue eyes out.  Not cool, scouts.  Not cool.


But at least we dominated.

Valentine's Day

We're not really big on Valentine's Day around here.  We do what is required, like sending Valentine's to school, and Ben brings home flowers.  And that's about it.  That's just the way we like it.  There's always four thousand other things going on at the same time, that we just don't put much effort into it. 

Ben brings home flowers for not just me, but all of the girls.  Grace was pretty happy to get home and find a vase of roses in her room.  Matthew was pretty excited about them, too.  Not sure what the cowboy hats are all about.