Glory

Was had by Q today on the soccer field. I did not attend, as per my depressurizing philosophy of late, but here's what I hear from witnesses:

Q spent some time in goal and did not fare well there. They were shorthanded - a total of 6 players came today. There are 6 on the field at any given time in U-10 soccer. So our boys were going to be stretched thin, and Q spending 1/4 of the game in goal was part of that stretching. They scored on him three times.

But when he was not in goal, he was on fire, scoring three times himself - triple his highest production in any other game so far this spring. Once was a tap-in on a centering pass from Crow, another was a looooong, arcing, high shot, flat, over the goalie's outstretched arms and across the face of the goal from the right corner, that somehow clanged off the top of the far post and in, and the third was a beat-one-man-and-then-tap-it-in-with-the-outside-of-the-right-foot number. That's how they were described to me.

Crow, the fourth grader who's found his legs this spring, scored five times, and Brady, once.

Tally in totum: 9.

Lenox Gold scored 8.

This is one happy li'l eight-year-old we have a-snoozin' in our house.

Therafter, T and I went to the park and flew a kite. A Barbie kite she got as a party favor somewhere. Perfect day for it, and she was a natural, running when she needed to...At one point when we first started she let all the string out, only to realize that it wasn't tied to the plastic thing they wrap the string around. The string leapt away from her...

...and she reached out and CAUGHT IT OUT OF THE AIR.

MY DAUGHTER IS A NINJA!!!!!