While I was in Lewiston visiting my folks last week Audra picked up a couple pumpkins for the girls. Tonight we had them first draw their design on a piece of paper and then, once they were satisfied, we marked up the front of the pumpkin. Pumpkin carving has gotten a whole lot easier once we figured out we could use a drywall saw to do the carving instead of a butcher knife. The butcher knife technique always made me feel like I was just a couple milliseconds from losing a finger, or five. The drywall saw goes through the pumpkin like a hot knife through butter!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
GOOOOOAAAL!
Kati has only one thing on her mind when she plays soccer.... SCORE.
Last night she was a little powerhouse, Audra stopped counting her scores at 8 - we figure she got at least 10. At this age Olivia was a good little goal scorer too, I recall one game where she had 6 but Olivia never scored in the manner that Kati scores. Olivia would (and still does) take a ball off the edge, kick it to free space dribble it down and blast a good shot, Kati flat just blows it up.
From the sound of the whistle she attacks, driving through the little scrum of 6 five-year-olds and usually (last night every) coming out with the ball and once she has a view she is GONE. Kati keeps the ball close and has very good sense of where she is on the field - this is a tough thing at this age. Last night she had one play where she blew up the scrum near mid field, took the ball to the corner, stopped, brought it in to the goal (going through 2 or 3 five-year-olds twice her size in the process) and banged it home.
I was ref-ing the game last night and could hear an audible sigh from the opposing side each time Kati would get the ball. I think I even heard it on substitutions when Kati would come in to the game. Needless to say we are very proud of our little powerhouse.
Last night she was a little powerhouse, Audra stopped counting her scores at 8 - we figure she got at least 10. At this age Olivia was a good little goal scorer too, I recall one game where she had 6 but Olivia never scored in the manner that Kati scores. Olivia would (and still does) take a ball off the edge, kick it to free space dribble it down and blast a good shot, Kati flat just blows it up.
From the sound of the whistle she attacks, driving through the little scrum of 6 five-year-olds and usually (last night every) coming out with the ball and once she has a view she is GONE. Kati keeps the ball close and has very good sense of where she is on the field - this is a tough thing at this age. Last night she had one play where she blew up the scrum near mid field, took the ball to the corner, stopped, brought it in to the goal (going through 2 or 3 five-year-olds twice her size in the process) and banged it home.
I was ref-ing the game last night and could hear an audible sigh from the opposing side each time Kati would get the ball. I think I even heard it on substitutions when Kati would come in to the game. Needless to say we are very proud of our little powerhouse.
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