The boys having some fun!


Mom & the boys about to get wet!


Mom Mom and Kris up and away!

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Here's the boys with mom in the pool at a birth party they went to. Kyle too a long time to get in, but he eventually did. The big boy just jumped in.


Then I got to go to a graduation party where these HOT moms were.

It was a busy week-end, and did I say we also went to Adventure Land where we ALL had an adventure!


Here's one more of the mob at that swinging grad party!

Nothing says 4th of July like a BQ!


And after A BQ you gott'a have Smores.


And here's me doing a bad moonwalk or a very good save as my big boy harasses me in a game of soccer!

This was after Kris' team was defeated. He felt real bad, and he was unconsolable. For him he tried his best, and still he lost. It was only later when we explained that he had won the championship still because his team won the most games that he felt better about himself and his team. I snapped this picture quickly after the game, and now looking at it I see how hurt he feels. He was quite angry at himself, and I got a bit angry at him for just thinking about himself. Both of us learned that day. Kris learned that sometimes you lose, and for me I learned that sometimes little boys need their space.

If I'm going to put up pictures of happy, smiling boys I also have to be there when their not at their best. It was a good life lesson. Because most of us fail more often then we succeed, and it is only in our failures that we learn how to succeed.

Kyle just getting started!


Kris gliding on his scooter


Kyle zooming past

Here's Kris wearing his medal he got with his award last month. My heart filled with joy when I saw him get it. Sitting in the audience with other parents I felt I was watching the future of sorts, and it was bright. Not bleak, and scary like the news wants you to believe. After all newspapers and news channels want more viewers and readers and everyone loves a salacious headline or leading story.

But that day I saw the future bright and bold. Girls and boys who have worked hard and achieved so much. Maybe the future isn't that bad, but instead brighter then we ever imagined. I'm sure the scene I was watching was repeated a hundred fold across this nation. Boys and girls achieving greatness. Now if only we adults could nurture those boys & girls better we would have a better world.

Maybe it's a bit optimistic, and maybe it's just a dad's pride beaming, but just maybe it's a beacon of hope in a sometimes grey and cloudy world.

So today was the last day of soccer, and the award ceremony. It was a hard fought last game, and Kris' team lost. Kris also got beaten up out on the field. He cried, and became very upset at losing, and he want no comfort from us. He called himself a loser, and just would not let it go. The other parents heard this and told him no your not. Your a winner. You fought hard out there. It was a very good game. We talked it over, and he seemed to calm down.

The interesting thing is that he won the championship. His team won more games then the other teams. So his team was in first place. As I explained to our boy that losing is part of the game and you try your best, but sometimes your team loses. I explained to him that though his team lost this game his team still won the championship. He got a neat trophy, and everyone shook hands, and congratulated each other.

Now I was never the jock and in fact I taunted the high school football player because he made fun at my friend who was Chinese, so I have a special little dislike for jocks. In some way I still think we overvalue them then others in academics, or arts. But I was very proud of my boy today, and he learned a very valuable lesson that sometimes you lose and that it isn't always about you. It's about the team, and Kris' team mates were very good, and played well.

This parenting thing is far from easy and I'm not afraid to tell you I'm making this up as I go, but today was a good day. As I've said to Kris the most powerful muscle in your body is your brain. Use it, and have fun. Learn each day, and make the world a better place. I see how sports helps with the development of an individual, and I hope it's making a good person out of my boy.


My champion hard at work chasing that ball.

Can you hear Alice singing! I do.

Today was Kris' awards ceremony. He made us all very proud.

Tomorrow Kris gets some award again. He's still in school till Tuesday, but he is having fun. Thes pictures were taken in February, but I figured some people would be happy to see these. Right Uncle, and mother, and auntie!

Kris is a very sensitive loving boy. Sometimes I feel he's too sensitive at times, but it's a good trait, and though I tell him he needs to be tough in a world that eats up sensitive and loving people I still don't want him to lose that trait. He's learning more and more about the world, and he's not stupid.

Kris has become a good writer, and he is making up stories and loves to draw them. Transformers are a big thing, but he loves he lot of things. I like seeing his creative side. It inspires me a lot.

I've changed the name of this blog. Cinema maverick is someone else and no longer fits this blog. It's about everday life. I still kept the movie theme though. After all it hard to let go of things that make you happy.


Here he is with his Mom Mom. He loves her BIGGIE bunch


Here he is with my Uncle who both boys really do love a lot.

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