Another good day at camp today:
Matthew: Apparently they don't keep the same teams as the Micro-stars level....Greg moved on to another team, and another boy from the indoor team, Bennett, rotated on to Matthew's team with Ty. Still don't understand why they are breaking the teams up that way; Greg (who came over and played with Matthew after camp) said playing against Matthew's team wasn't much fun....
Christopher: Had a really good day. At the end of each day they pick one player from each team to call up for recognition (with 4 days of 'regular' camp, they'll end up recognizing most of the younger players). Today was Christopher's turn; he only told us that he was the 'special' player today and said that one of the reasons was that he took a shot to the mouth and was bleeding a little after another boy hit him accidentally. Ask Kevin about his day, and he tells a little bit more about Christopher's day...that another reason Christopher was the 'special' player is that he scored the game-winning goal in one of the games! Ask Christopher about this, he give a shy little smile and admitted to being awesome.....
Kevin: Had a good day; had his phrase-off with the one coach and lost by 0.8 seconds, so, he's practicing speed recital tonight for the rematch tomorrow. One small disaster....it's really hot and humid so instead of just sending the boys with water bottles (which was woefully inadequate on Tuesday) we loaded up a small cooler and sent ice and 4 bottles of Dasani water. The last thing I said to Kevin was "Hey, bring back the empty Dasani bottles so that we can refill them...don't throw them out". Somehow, either through my poor English skills, or, Kevin's poor listening skills, he interpreted that as "Bring home the bottle water! (don't drink it!)"....and came home complaining about how cruel it was to send him and Christopher with bottled water that he couldn't drink!
Bloopers: Finally updated the Dad-trying-to-get-on-the-tube video from Florida.....a barrel of laughs, I guess.
ZapZone: Should have talked about this before as well....took the boys and Ashton to ZapZone this weekend as the long-awaited celebration of Matthew's birthday. Zapzone has moved since we were last there....this location is bigger (used to be a movie theatre) and the boys had an absolute blast. Matthew came out after the last game and said "Dad, I smoked them!".....our team and some other kids were matched up against some kids about Matthew's age from a birthday party...it was a slaughter. We didn't think this was appropriate for a kindergarten party for Matthew this year; can't see how we're going to be able to avoid it for 1st grade, given how much fun Matthew has here. Couldn't stop talking about it before we went; can't stop talking about it now.
Funding: Turns out there may be monies available in some deep dark secret hole of the government, so, maybe we will be able to finish digging and capping at Selfridge after all.
