So - I find I'm really spurty at this whole blogging thing - why is that I wonder? I'll have all these ideas for blog posts all on one day and I'll be able to keep them in my mind for a day or two - cuz I try to do no more than 1 in a day. But then - it's gone. And I know, you can schedule posts to happen in the future, but I'd have to spend time to figure that out and well... it's on the list. (other blog things on the list - I signed up months and months ago to be able to use this site to make cool slide shows of pictures, but the first time I tried it it was taking too much time to figure out how to choose a song to go with the pictures and how to determine the order of them.... so.. forget it, I just posted some pictures that day and haven't been back - but.. I swear it's on the list.)
So there's been nothing crazy going on here like crazy animals in the back yard so nothing so obviously blogworthy has cropped up - so I'm going to try to just throw up some stuff about what's going on in the boring normal life we live.
A couple of weeks ago was the comic book convention again and we had the boys take pictures of all the people in the costume contest - It's on the list (really high, I swear) to download the pictures and maybe I'll even learn how to do the slide show thingy for it, we'll see.
Right now both boys are in a soccer tournament which is fun, but it's a lot of time added to the already swamped schedule. This past week, both of the boys soccer games and Jackson's football game were all canceled due to cold and rainy weather - phew, cuz then the week started. Monday Jack had a game at 6 and Teddy had one a 7. Tuesday Teddy had basketball evaluations (Jackson's had been on this past Saturday). Wednesday Jackson had a soccer game and tonight (Thursday) Teddy had a soccer game. This weekend both boys have soccer games on Saturday. On Sunday Jack has flag football and Ted has a soccer game and on Monday the tourney continues and they both have soccer games.... geez.
In Jackson's first game a quarter of his team was down with a fever so not there, they were able to get two 6 year old younger brothers to play with Jackson's under 9 team.... they lost 3 - 0. In his second game they didn't need the 6 year olds but didn't have many subs if any. They played a good game and were tied at 3-3 about 3/4 of the way through the game, but then they just ran out of gas and the other team scored at least 2 more goals on them so they lost again.
Teddy was in the most exciting kid soccer game I've seen yet in his first game. His team is a rec level team - they're good players, but none of them are going to be the next Pele. In the tourney you can play against any level team and in their first game they played against a travel team (this is where the future Pele's are playing in this age group). From the beginning all the parents from our team were just hoping and praying that the loss wouldn't be too devastating for them. The other team's players were bigger and stronger and at a whole different level then Ted's team, if they hadn't been playing against Teddy they would have been really fun to watch. Extremely good ball handling skills, routinely passing the ball to where they knew their team mate
would be, which is just not something Teddy's team does regularly if at all. And boy did they kick it hard; every pass, every kick, every shot on goal was hard and intense and extremely purposeful. I'd say 90% of the entire game was spent right in front of our goal, but somehow we managed to limit them to only 2 goals (our defense has always been the strongest part of the team) - and miraculously we somehow managed to score 2 goals on them as well - so the game ended in a tie - which I tell you was better than any win they've ever had.
At the end of the game Teddy got a little teary - the whole team was extremely emotional at their hard fought tie. They all knew they'd played one of their best defensive games ever and that it was a real feat that they hadn't been totally destroyed by that team. Ted said - "I feel all emotional" - it was so cute - I was very proud of the whole team.
OH and... early in the second half one of the other team's players took an incredibly hard shot on goal and it landed.... right on Teddy's face - the shot heard 'round the field.
The sidelines reaction (both sides) a collective - "Gasp" Oh. My. God.
My reaction - Holy shit. Oh man, he's going to be so embarrassed by that to begin with and then he can't not cry over that kind of hit and that's going to make it worse, poor kid.
The Ref's reaction - stopped the game immediately and ran towards Teddy.
Teddy's reaction - Bent at the waist holding his face. Slowly stood up shaking his head (I can only assume trying to gather his wits which most certainly were thrown a few yards away). Crouched into a good ready position scanning for the ball (after all he was playing defense and that had been a shot on goal - the ball had to be somewhere nearby).
It wasn't until the ref got to him and physically had to stop him from moving as he continued to look for the ball (I think he was a bit dazed) did Teddy understand the game had been stopped. The ref examined him and called "blood" and sent him to the sidelines. The hit ripped his lip and I think he bit his tongue too cuz it was bleeding as well. I jogged over to him expecting him to need a little love, but when I got to him, he had napkins on his lips and was completely fine. The bleeding was just about stopped and after a very amusing time spent getting the napkin that got stuck to his lips and tongue off he was back in the game.
His second game tonight was against another rec team - very well matched with his team. It was a great game, they continued to play better then they've played throughout the rest of the season and they won 1-0.
We'll see if I can continue this .... this is our life posts.
Camela
