Hey everyone, I wanted to share some good news. My younger sister Amanda delivered her baby today. Her name is Emily Lynne Potter.
Emily was born at 5:09 pm and her weight is 4 pounds and she is 19 inches long.
Amanda and Emily are doing fine.
See first day photos at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/JenniferKnowlton
My friend from my team at work and season ticket holder of seats at the Key Arena where the Seattle Sonics play basketball, scored us some tickets for tonight's game against the Memphis Grizzlies. Interestingly enough, these two teams are the worst teams in the conference, so it made for a good game. Sonics have slightly better stats, so it wasn't a surprise that they won the game 121-105 .
This was the first professional basketball game that the kids had attended. I think what surprised me most was that they were all enjoying the game and sat through the entire game without getting restless. Throughout the game I was testing Joshua's understanding and I was surprised at how much he understood. Enough so, that he knew what team he was rooting for and whether or not the other team scored or the Sonics scored. I think Joshua also related because he got a "door" based basketball hoop and basketball for his birthday and he enjoys playing at home. The older girls got to sit by themselves in the row below ours and I could see that they enjoyed the parental-less freedom. It also delights a father to see his older girls getting along like best friends.
I wouldn't go out on a limb and say that I hate basketball, but I know it's not something I yearn to watch. I would, however, go to a thousand games to experience the same enjoyment that we had tonight being together and having fun as family.
I have updated Furtak.net with a home movie of Joshua riding his Big Wheel in the Snow this past January.
See the video at: http://www.furtak.net/movies/
I have plans of updating Furtak.net with the various home movies we have collected over the past couple of years. I wanted to edit the movies and add sound and such so that I wasn't just uploading boring long videos but rather providing entertaining short films.
Please come back later to Furtak.net for more home movies.
~Jason Furtak~
A friend at work has season tickets for Seattle Supersonics NBA basketball. He's been looking to take me for a couple of months now, so I agreed to go tonight. I'm not a basketball fan, but I enjoy watching live sporting events in general. This event was fun but it also confirmed my assumption that basketball isn't really my full court press.
The Sonics game was against the Chicago Bulls which seemed fitting on the weekend where Chicago Bears are playing in the Super Bowl. As Basketball games go, it was a good close game, but unfortunately the Sonics lost 101 to 107.
At the risk of insulting the fans, I would have to say that I enjoyed the spectacle surrounding the game more than the game itself. One of my favorite treats was watching the various shenanigans of the Sonics mascot, Squatch. Squatch agrees to come out of hiding from the Cascade Mountains for each Sonics home game and does a great job getting the crowds all fired up. (Squatch is not to be mistaken for his brother Sasquatch who lives in Mount St. Helens or mistaken for his cousin, Yeti, who lives in the Himalayas). Squatch did a half time performance which included a trampoline routine where he made a basket after catching the ball mid-air and pulling a front flip. I'm going to make sure to seek his autograph the next time I attend a Sonics game.
My big boy turned 4 years old today. At 4 years of age, Joshua enjoys playing with cars and action figures and loves to pull things apart with a screw driver. Joshua is mild mannered but he did, however, love the attention that he got during his birthday. In a family with three other older sisters, it's difficult to get this type of attention. As tradition would have it, we let Joshua pick out where he wanted to have his birthday dinner and, like his sister on her birthday, he picked the Rainforest Cafe. We ordered him a "Volcano" for dessert which came with a happy birthday song from the the wait staff.
Another tradition we enjoy, is when our friends the Moody's call to sing happy birthday. Joshua loved the birthday song and, while on the phone, he put up four fingers to show how old he is.
