Today was Ivo’s first ever soccer practice. It was sooo fun!
When we left the house, it was not even 12C – it was dark gray and a cold damp. From the time stepped out of the car in the parking lot to the time we walked up to the field, the sun came out and the temperature shot up to practically t-shirt weather.
Because it was so cool when we left the house and because it was sooo cold and misty-like-we-live-along-the-rocky-maritime-coastline – yesterday at minigolf (pics to come), the boys and I overdressed.
Burl often chooses, nay – demands, a fleece cap, so hats are an easy layer to get both boys to wear. They each had a long-sleeve t-shirt, topped with a short-sleeve shirt, fleece vest and jacket + the hats. Other kids were wearing shorts.
It was like we’d just arrived from another planet.
But FUN!!!
On his first water break, Ivo agreed to take off a few layers and to lose the hat. Burl made no such compromise for comfort!
My guess is that there were about 30 kids. This included the children of 3 of Ryan’s paternal cousins – it was as if the Lawrences had arrived to take over the mini-soccer league. It was like witnessing the reification of the joke about having enough kids to form a baseball team. Kind of neat.
And also, by the way, another of Ryan’s cousins, who has a 3 year old daughter lives adjacent to the field the kids played on!
The other day Ivo asked me what I looked like when I was little. “Like you,” I told him. The I showed him my 1st grade picture. Ivo’s been growing sooo much! –and his face is really kid-ding up. His jaw, cheekbones and eyes are looking so much longer, so much older! Ivo tells people, “I’m really smart… I’m a genius.” He told this to his dr on Tuesday. “I am talking and pooping at the same time. I can do this because I have a mouth and a bum-bum.” -while sitting on the toilet before a bath. When talking about his growing pains, which are located mostly at the bottom of his shin bone, he says he was in pain “all day night.”
When we left the house, it was not even 12C – it was dark gray and a cold damp. From the time stepped out of the car in the parking lot to the time we walked up to the field, the sun came out and the temperature shot up to practically t-shirt weather.
Because it was so cool when we left the house and because it was sooo cold and misty-like-we-live-along-the-rocky-maritime-coastline – yesterday at minigolf (pics to come), the boys and I overdressed.
Burl often chooses, nay – demands, a fleece cap, so hats are an easy layer to get both boys to wear. They each had a long-sleeve t-shirt, topped with a short-sleeve shirt, fleece vest and jacket + the hats. Other kids were wearing shorts.
It was like we’d just arrived from another planet.
But FUN!!!
On his first water break, Ivo agreed to take off a few layers and to lose the hat. Burl made no such compromise for comfort!
My guess is that there were about 30 kids. This included the children of 3 of Ryan’s paternal cousins – it was as if the Lawrences had arrived to take over the mini-soccer league. It was like witnessing the reification of the joke about having enough kids to form a baseball team. Kind of neat.
And also, by the way, another of Ryan’s cousins, who has a 3 year old daughter lives adjacent to the field the kids played on!
These guys are all cousins.
That's right, Burl is palming the soccer ball!
Ivo Overheard:
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Speaking of poop. We seem to be in a diarrhea crisis or else the early stages of compacted bowels. I’m hoping for diarrhea. Gotto go.
Oh yea, TODAY WAS RYAN’S LAST DAY OF CLASSES!!!!!!!!! He’s partying in F’ton:)
Burl and Ivo at Connell Pk on Sunday, 6 June...
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