Soccer started yesterday morning - at 8am - yuck! Kaedo played the first game of the day and he had a blast. The team did a great job, winning 4-1. Kaedo had an assist and about 4 head bumps. He really enjoyed himself and it was great to see him out there playing again. He was nervous at the beginning but once he got a couple of shots under his belt he loosened up and really showed off his mad skillz!
Sterling played at 6pm - the last game of the day, and he did great. It was terrific seeing him out there and he ran his face off. He doesn't really like to run so I was wondering how he would fair, but he was great and in the play and really showed off some great talent. I forgot my camera so I will have to take some video and pictures next week. Craig will have to get back to editing the video and adding the music.
Next week Sterling plays at 8am. They are killing me! Craig has football so he will miss the game. Kaedo plays late in the afternoon so he will make it to that one.
Tonight I have a School Council meeting for the Grad Committee. Not sure how the hell I got into that one but whatever. The woman who is chairing the committee lives in this house I have always wanted to see inside of so I am looking forward to that. I'm hoping it only takes an hour or so but we'll see.
The boys have had a good day off. We hung around the house in the morning, then Sterling went to C's house for a couple of hours and now they are both here. Kaedo and I went out and spent some time together and that was fun. Back to school and work for us tomorrow. The days off go by way too fast!
As you have heard me mention before, taking pictures in the soccer dome is very difficult. I don't know if it's the lighting or what but it is very difficult. Here are a couple of blurry images from week two of soccer. I neglected to take my camera on week one so here are a couple from Sunday. Sterling played at 8am (yikes) and Kaedo played at 3pm. We were hoping to have games one after the other but that will only occur twice in 26 weeks. Oh well. The boys are loving it. They are both having so much fun. Soccer is such a great sport and I am so glad that we got them registered.
We took off for our annual pumpkin picking and family photo session yesterday morning and boy was it wet! The rain was pouring and at the patch the tractor wasn't running and the water and mud was ankle high. But we had fun. We didn't go into the field - just too wet, but we did find some fun pumpkins. Craig has been hard at work thinking up designs for this year's pumpkin and so he was on the hunt for the perfect one for his masterpiece. Sterling decided he was going to do a witch so we seemed to have picked up a few "wart pumpkins". The are so ugly they are cute. Love them.
We finally ordered a new bracelet for Sterling about 10 days ago. He has worn a Medic Alert bracelet since he was about 6 months old. I remember him wearing it around his ankle so he wouldn't try to rip it off. I have a love/hate relationship with Medic Alert. I love that if anything ever happens to him, the emergency services people who assist him will have access to his records and will better be able to help him. I hate that he wears a Medic Alert bracelet. I don't want him to have to. I don't want there to be anything 'wrong' with him. This time around it was especially hard. While we don't live in denial, we had hoped to never have to add Tourette's to his bracelet, but when I placed the new order I did. I'm sure I felt heavy hearted when we had to update his bracelet to add peanut allergy, but this really hurt. I don't know why this was such a kick in the stomach. When Sterling asked why we had added it, I explained that because he was taking medication for it, it needed to be on his bracelet in case he ever got hurt and had to be given something. He understood and has always been so great about it. He's a special kid and I am so proud of how he takes it in stride and goes on about his life. I could learn a thing or two from him.
