Sorry for neglecting you, my impatient blog fans.
I don’t tend to post as much towards the end of the week, as life seems to snowball around me. Friday we did some garage saling and hung out at home, as PisecoDad was still home from work. At one garage sale, we’d picked up this book:
for Piseco Dad, who studies both WWII and editorial cartoons. As JediBoy was leafing through our book pile, which was mostly for him, he came across the Dr. Seuss book. He called out, “Hey MOM! Look at this! This book is like… The Cat in the Hat Goes to War! Cool!”
The three of us spent the afternoon at Chuck E Cheese with Paula and Ben, then had soccer practice in the evening and hung out at the bookstore with Leigh and kids after that. JediBoy became a “Tower of Power Master” and was able to routinely get 9 tickets for every token he dropped into the machine. He used some of Ben’s tokens to win him many tickets too, and both boys wound up with over 400 tickets at the end of the day, instead of the 100-200 they usually have. But the best part of it was watching his face light up with pride as he realized he could do something useful and interesting that the rest of us couldn’t do. “I am the MASTER of the TOWER of POWER!”
Saturday we had JediBoy’s first soccer game of his new team, which was hot and emotional, but we got through it. In the first period, the one boy on the team who is the most assertive kicked a kick-off that had been promised to be JediBoy’s kick. That, coupled with the heat, sent JediBoy into tears. Fortunately, though, this soccer club is organized so that the nine or ten kids on each team play on two fields simultaneously, running two games with three kids on each field. So for the remaining three quarters, Coach Dad was able to keep those two boys separated, and JediBoy perked right up. He has great instincts for defense: he isn’t the fastest or most aggressive player, but when he sees the mob of kids + ball heading towards our goal, he takes the direct line down there to play defense, and most of the time he’s able to kick the ball away. I don’t think anyone has ever tried to tell him to play that way, but he’s come around to the idea on his own, seeing how he can best fit into his team. I do also like the three-on-three games, as the kids get many more touches while they’re playing.
After soccer we went to see Underdog to escape the heat. Sunday we tried several projects around the house, including beginning - but not finishing! - a huge clothing re-sort for both kids.
Today we’d planned on group soccer photos, but one of our families was out of town. JediBoy has a deep love for our favorite photographer at the local studio and also has a passion lately for dressing up, so rather than cancel the appointment I told him he could wear whatever he liked, and we’d get the $10 package of the best shot. Here he is:
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