GOAL!

This week both Paris and Lex scored their first goals in soccer.

Paris is super fast and generally beats all the other kids to the

goal, so this time it was perfect and it was passed right to her

and she kicked it right in. She was so excited! This was one of

only a couple games Jon missed, he was pretty upset. And of

course I didn't have the video cam, Argh! So we treated

everyone to Coldstone. She only has one game left, only one

more for me to get a video of her scoring. She's pretty

confident now hopefully she can do it again.

At Lex's Start Smart they run drills for about 30 minutes and

then have a little scrimmage. They had been playing all the

kids at once which was a huge mess, no one could do anything

and kids would get trampled. So they finally split up the kids

in to 3 different scrimmages last week. Lex is pretty good, he

and one other kid would get the ball from the group and run

it down to the goal, unfortunately Lex was never the last to

kick before it went in the goal. Well having seen his sister

score and knowing we would go out for ice cream if he scored,

he didn't let anyone stop him. He ended up with 2 goals and a

couple assists. He was so excited. He chose Baskin Robbins. I

of course didn't have to video cam again, and on Saturday, the

last "game",I brought the cam, but they didn't do the scrimmage

so they could pass out certificates and medals. I guess we'll have

to wait until next season to get him on video.

Evey really wanted to score a goal at her game too, unfortunately

it's much harder at her level. She is awesome to watch though. Her

coach mainly plays her as a mid-fielder, because she is so good at

out running others to help on both defence and offence and she is

super aggressive too. Her team can count on her to challenge the

other team and generally win the ball. But, she is rarely close

enough to the goal to score, she sends it to the forwards for that.

So it is my goal to have the cam at her last game this coming week

and maybe she'll be able to get one in.

On a different note, but still bragging of course, we received a letter

recently from the district informing us that Evey had such high

scores on her science scores on her Iowa Test of Basic Skills that she

will be in a few different gifted and talented programs. She is taken

out of school once a month for an entire day to go to an advanced

school for science focused curriculum. We had the option to send her

to this advanced school for regular school, but chose not to because

she loves being social and we would rather her be more well rounded,

than be a unsocial genius. On Friday we got another letter from the

district telling us that her math scores were so high they will be taking

her out of class once a week for gifted and talented and Math Olympiad.

I'm half expecting even another letter soon about her reading scores,

since that is her best subject. We're super proud and are so glad they

have finally gotten such a good gifted and talented program. We've been

waiting since moving back from New York, for the district to get it's act

together!

On Friday when dropping Jon off at school there was a hot air balloon

floating around town. On the way home we saw that it had landed and

so we went and found it and got to snap some pics (with my point and

shoot cam, barf!) Then we got to see it take off again, it was pretty cool.

And they waived at Lex, how fun!