Silence is golden

Dylan was mute for about 10 minutes during a recent car ride, turned around to find this mess.  He was eating a low grade 25 cent gumball which ended up getting plastered on his face, Mom had to do some research to find appropriate way to remove, turns out a peanut butter application approach finally did the trick.

Spring Season Complete Pt. 2

Madison wrapped up her season as well, from what I understand the kids move up to the next level going forward -- some of the girls are already playing travel this summer.  The tryouts aren't rigorous, every kid makes it at this point -- the league just wants the money.  The big difference is that the kids won't all be from the same school/neighborhood.

Spring Season Complete

Dylan wrapped up his 2nd soccer season, photo above is missing 3 key members -- 2 players and 1 coach (who happened to be Mom).  D had a great season, averaging 2.78 goals per game with high intensity play.  On top of the scoring, he had some stellar defensive plays which stonewalled excited players who thought a goal was imminent.

Fore!

Hit the driving range with Dylan for the first time.  Another sport D has an interest in, we started practicing in the backyard with a real ball, quickly realized we needed to switch to the plastic ones -- at least that's what I thought when he ripped a shot off the side of the house.

8 years old

Pinata with 20+ kids, bad idea.... bunch of hyenas, I think there was some eye gouging at the bottom of the pile.

Perfect weather for a backyard birthday party -- bounce house, water balloons, pinata and marshmallow races.  Madison and her friends had a blast!