A Dad’s Nicknames
Someday, I suspect that these nicknames will have left me, but for now, they each belong to one of my girls. Can you guess whose they are? Oakaloo Malouda Spinosa
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The Princess, The Pea, and The Lou
Once upon a time Lou’s kindergarten class was studying fairy tales. As the culmination of the unit, Friday was Favorite Fairy Tale Character Day. Can you guess what Lou was?
Bologna, one frame at a time
I decided to experiment with an iPhone app called “Timelapse” to see how it would do capturing a soccer game. So, I stuck the thing on the cross bar and compressed 45 minutes of soccer into 5.
Back in Bologna
After 2 weeks of cancelled games (hello spring soccer!), Lou’s team was finally back in action yesterday. It’s good to be back. And it’s good to be Bologna.
Notice the Cow
100% Sucks
At a soccer meeting about a year ago, some sage coach told us, the parents, the following. ”If a soccer team is losing 90% of their games, someone is doing something wrong. If a soccer team is winning 90% of their games, someone is doing something wrong.” You see, kids …
Another Author?
The following text is published as written in Lindy’s book she brought home from school today. (Her handwriting is lovely, but I’d have to destroy the book to share that with you via a scan, so we’ll just go with text for today.) The Bee Who Loved to Sing Yay! …
Happy Thanksgiving, Turkeys
Helping Humpty
Mystery Meats, Mascots, and Moves
Lou got placed on the red team this fall in U-7 soccer. Tim was the coach. “Bologna” got chosen as the team name. Yes, really. We had a mystery meat as our mascot. Tim got to sing “My Bologna” to the tune of “My Sharona“. And I got these pictures …