Monday musings...
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 12:19PM ...Wouldn't it be fabulous if every time Noah needed a bigger pant size I needed a smaller one? ;) (Yes, I noticed recently that both Noah and Asher need longer pants...again. It wouldn't be so bad, I suppose, if it just weren't so darn boring, lol. Noah gets exactly the same thing as before, just in a bigger size. (He's always been like this...he had the exact same model soccer cleats for four years and has been in basically the same sneaker for even longer.) Asher would be totally fine with different pants but suffers the fate of a second born and ends up with Noah's hand-me-downs for the most part.)
...Noah and Micah had another JOAD tournament yesterday. Both did well in keeping their cool...not horrible performances by any means, but not the scores they were hoping for, so we had some moments of overcoming frustration. Noah managed, though, to post his second and third highest scores for a round and has pretty tough competition (a field of more than a dozen 12-14 year old boys). Micah took second (out of two) but managed to be happy about it and to congratulate his teammate on his first ever first place. Due to the size of the tournament (164 shooters altogether, split over three sessions), I ended up running the yeomen shooters (under 9) during Micah's session. It was actually pretty fun...I love that there are fewer yeomen so we get to know them even when they're on different teams. Here they are at the line:
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(Yes, Micah's mohawk is getting a bit long, lol.) On this particular shot, all three hit the bullseye. It was a really close afternoon...as these three ended up scoring only eight points different over 60 shots (a possible 600 points). It's so cool to see the strength of the younger shooters and look forward to watching them over the coming years!
...At Micah's request, we watched "The Sound of Music" last night. His music class at LEAP is apparently singing songs from the movie for their spring program so Micah wanted to watch it. Surprisingly, the other two boys sat and watched the whole thing, too. Noah has now declared that he knows he dislikes musicals, lol. (Micah enjoyed it, for the record. And is now singing to annoy Noah.) ;)
...Finally, just wanted to share some blog posts I've read lately:
14 wonderful words with no English equivalent (love these, especially those first two, lol!)
Just another manic Monday (perfect explanation)
Please don't help my kids (I find this so true...working in particular this year at building the boys' self-sufficiency and remembering that help can take the form of letting them fail...course, remember my ziggurat story? Darned if that teacher didn't give the boy a perfect score on that late paper. Bleh.)
Anyhow. Hope your week is off to a sunny start!
Reader Comments (2)
I am with you on the bigger / smaller pants. I was just noticing that Daniel's pants are getting a tad short and I just moved Winchester up a size. They both just move into hand me downs at this point. :)
Sunny?! We have been locked into an inversion (think fog) all year, lol. Hope to see the sun by this weekend. It's been hovering around 27 degrees every day. Yuck!