Micah, Micah, Micah

Three things...

1. All three boys had their second JOAD tournament of the season on Sunday. It was a really long day, as the tournament was down in Colorado Springs (2.5 hours south) and we took the time to eat both lunch and dinner down there (the dinner part was to avoid Broncos game traffic coming back through Denver on our way home, lol). We left the house at 8:30 am and got home a bit after 9 pm. Yeah. Long. Neither Noah nor Asher had a great tournament. Well, in their eyes, they didn't have a great tournament. For what it's worth, I thought they both did a great job of controlling their frustration, something we've really been working on. Noah didn't even blame his equipment...monumental progress! :) 

But. Micah had a fabulous tournament. :) He took first out of the four boys in his division, by a wide margin (total score of 526...next two high scores were 397 and 212). He set a new personal best round (10 ends, so 30 arrows) of 267. It was the first time his total score broke 500. And he scored a perfect 30 during one of his ends:

Yup, by the end of the 60 arrows they shot, his target still looked pretty much like this...with only two shots beyond the red. The kid can shoot, folks. ;) At the end, though the other boys in his division had already left for home, Micah was quick to jump right up on the makeshift podium:

If you haven't noticed, this one's not overly shy. ;)

2. Remember Micah's mohawk and declaration of being a Moala? Yeah. He's still at it. He's created an entire little way of Moala life in his head and is really too cute for words sometimes. Yesterday, though, I overheard a conversation that had me busting up:

Noah: (said slightly menacingly) Hey, do you know how much people are willing to pay for Moala skins?! 

Micah: Noooooooo!

(brief pause)

Micah: Wait. It's okay. I'm in jammy mode. You can't get my skin in jammy mode. And no one knows where the Moala forest is. I'm safe. 

3. One last Micah moment that had me chuckling this week...yesterday during Asher's karate class (Asher sits with me during Micah's class then Micah sits with me during Asher's), one of the little girls in Micah's class (who is newly finding herself staying longer since her brother recently graduated to Asher's class) sat right next to Micah and started talking to him. She loves talking to him. He's finally admitted that he knows her name, lol.

Anyhow. She was asking him what he was doing and if she could play. (He was on his iPod.) He grunted. I prompted him to possibly at least answer her and say hi, lol. She took off for a bit but eventually came back, having been instructed by her parents to stop running around.

This time, though, she had it all figured out. She borrowed her mom's Kindle and brought it to sit next to Micah again (note, there were plenty of available spots all over the place...she just kept sitting right next to him...like close enough that she was touching him...it was pretty entertaining, lol). This time, she started her own game (Angry Birds) and then leaned over and asked Micah if he could please help her pass this level...with her cute little girl face looking at him all pleadingly. Man. If Micah attracts girls already this "in the know" at age 6 or 7, we're in trouble. ;)