This describes Teresa’s average day so much it’s scary. She hasn’t seen this yet, but I’m sure she’ll have it memorized inside 20 minutes.
Archive for September, 2007.
The boys both had soccer games over the weekend. Ty’s team (the Troutville Transformers) continued their winning streak (except for a single tie, they haven’t lost) by winning 3-1. Dane’s team (the YellowJackets) continued their perfect record of no wins (with one tie) by losing 4-1. The 1 on Dane’s team came Dane himself. He actually followed through instead of kicking the ball and stopping to see what happens, and made a 1/2 field run with the ball, got around 2 defenders, and scored the goal unassisted. He was very happy. It’s his first goal/point in any game he’s played.
Somehow, both Blackwood boys are either gravitationally challenged, or are both inordinately attracted to dirt. They both spend more time on the ground than they do running after the ball. They seem to have developed independent habits of kicking the ball (or at it in many cases) then falling to the ground in such a dramatic fashion that many NBA players would be envious (and some of Don King’s fighters). I spend half the game yelling “Get up Dane/Ty!”. They don’t just fall. They flop dramatically, then look around like they are waiting for Olympic scores (damn french judges). If they did this once or twice, it’d be pretty funny. But they do it just about every time the come in contact with the ball.
Come to think of it, they both did pretty well at the game over the weekend. Maybe it was just a phase that they had to go through. Or maybe gravity just loosened it’s grip on them. They still fell occasionally, but didn’t make a big production out of it, and it wasn’t every time they touched the ball.
Dane has another game Tuesday night. Hopefully they’ll win at least one this season. They didn’t start practicing until two weeks after most of the other teams did (coaches out of town), and seem to be on average, smaller/younger than the other teams. They are still having fun though, so that’s all that really matters. He comes home after every game smiling, so it’s really not an issue.
We had a small cake for Lynne’s 58th birthday. The boys had fun with it…
The boys both have bikes, but there’s really no good place to ride them at the house. This is the 2nd time we’ve taken them to a local school to ride, and only the 2nd time they’ve ridden without training wheels. The don’t wan to go, but have fun once we get there. If we could get them riding more often, they’d be buzzin around all over the place.
Here’s a few videos of them riding around.
Me working with Ty
Ty all by himself (ish)
Ty taking a bit of a spill. He kept going after this one though.
Ty ‘teaching’ Turbo how to balance on the bike…
Dane on a long ride
Both Boys riding together
Ty took a pretty nasty spill at the end where he smacked his head pretty good on the asphalt. The helmet did it’s job and he wasn’t really hurt, but it scared the jeebus out of him. He didn’t want to ride again but we made him climb back on the bike for one last ride so he could ‘show the bike who’s the boss’. He troopered through it and rode around the court again.
We are going to try to get them out on their bikes at least once a weekend so they get some practice and feel comfortable on them. We’ll have them off road mountain biking with daddy soon enough.
Both boys are currently enrolled in soccer. Dane is on the Troutville yellow jackets. They’ve lost both games so far, but are improving with every practice. Ty is on the Troutville Transformers. They’ve won both games, and Ty scored one goal in the first game, and two in the second. We’ll have video up of the soccer games soon.
Well, I bit the bullet and joined the Blog world. We’ll have family updates and such as they come in. Check back often, we might have actually updated…