Assistant Coach

Today I was the Assistant Coach for Seth's soccer team, it was so much fun!! I learned all the boy's names and had a great time teaching them to dribble and shoot. Ball control was something else we worked on with a game called "Alligator Pit". I was the swamp monster in the middle that tried to get their ball when they crossed; it was great fun. Luke and Celena stayed home and played games and just hung out - it worked out nicely as I could completely devote my time at the practice to playing with Seth. Also, Celena was able to give all her attention to Luke so everyone was happy.



My ankle is healing up nicely; one perk is that I have a landscaper cutting my grass at the moment......I could get used to this! I get to stay inside and play games and throw the ball with Luke. He was really chatty this morning, spitting out about 4 more words that Celena hasn't heard him say yet: fish, fire (complete with sound effects), kitty cat (with a really cute meow), and balloon (we've heard this one before). His vocabulary is growing each day and he seems to be learning quite a bit from us all.



That's all for now, later!

Crutches

Wow, it's been forever since I've used crutches yet here I find myself in need of their assistance again. I was rushing Seth to the bathroom yesterday at Lowe's (we were picking up some bird feeders) and I slipped in the bathroom getting some paper towels. Boy did that hurt!! In any case, I ended up going to the doctor and they took some X-Rays. Seems like there is no break but likely a fracture or two. So, I'm on crutches and I.C.E. (Ice, Compression, Elevation) for awhile (oh, and loads of Ibuprofen).



I'm a horrible patient and am probably driving my wife crazy. I am one of those people who hate to be waited on and need to do everything by myself. She wanted me to play Nintendo with Seth and when I turned around with the Wiimotes hanging out of my mouth hobbling to the couch she was none too pleased. In any case, I just really don't like people waiting on me, especially when they have other things to do. But, I do know that when she is hurt I like to wait on her so understand where she's coming from. So, I've resigned to the fact that she is going to wait on me somewhat. I've also learned that Seth really likes to get me stuff too. I never realized that he has a great heart and really wants to help out whenever he can! He'll get my shoes, crutches, anything I need; it's very nice. Even Luke brought me my keys this morning!

Seth's First Soccer Practice!

Today Seth had his first soccer practice, he did really well! They did tons of drills and games, here are a few of Seth's favorites:

• Jungle Safari (follow the leader) - You follow the leader through the jungle and point out animals while you're dribbling. You have to jump over snakes, duck under Monkeys, run from Lions, and squish spiders. Seth really loved this, he even said that when he was jumping over a snake, "Oh no! I landed on him and squished him!".



• Elmer Fudd (dodgeball) - One side of the field are the bunnies, the other are the Elmer's. Elmers get to dribble to their balls to the other side of the field to hunt the bunnies who are running from them. If you get hit with a ball then you become an Elmer and get a ball to hunt bunnies.



• Red Light, Green Light - Green light is when you dribble the ball. Red light is when you stop the ball and put your foot on top; Seth really liked that.



• Bulldozers and Trucks - you dribble the ball around cones and try and use your ball to knock them over.



• Switch - You dribble your ball and when the coach yells, "Switch!" you leave your ball and go dribble someone else's.

I have uploaded some pictures to our gallery here (http://gallery.mac.com/jldavis007#100150&bgcolor=black&view=grid), but included a picture of Seth jumping over a snake because I really like it a lot.

Gold

Seth was riding with Celena to take dinner to one of our friends who is sick and he said, "Mommy, I know where you can find gold!". She was curious, but not surprised. He and Luke have been watching a cartoon that tours all over the world, teaching about different cultures and gold is talked about historically as well as geographically.

So, she asked, "Where can I find gold?"

"Mr. Stacey's and South Africa!"

Celena grinned and told him he was right.

Another Funny Question

On the way to church this morning Seth asked a very important question: "Daddy, let me tell you something."

"Ok." I said.

"Is God with us everywhere?" he asked.

"Yes, God is with us everywhere!" I said.

"Even in a spaceship?"

I am so proud.

Ni-Hao

At Church today I was introducing Seth to the daughters of some friends of mine, it went down something like this:

"Hello, my name is Lauren, what's your name?"

"Seth."

"Nice to meet you."

"Ni-Hao."

Ni-Hao Ki Lan is a neat show.

Rainy Day

Today was a rainy day. We did the usual rainy day stuff: make tents, read books, play in the basement; not much happened except that we went to REI and found a new tent to get for the summer. We'll be able to go camping when Chyleen comes to visit (which will be quite nice). I also found a new piece of software, ecto, which allows me to write blogs offline and then simply hit publish to send them to my blog (I'm using blogger now). I was able to drag and drop all of my old wordpress blogs and import them into the new blogger blog which was quite nice.

In any case, nothing much happening although I'm thoroughly enjoying my new MacBook Pro.

And we're moving....

Ok, I'm finally consolidating my blogs on Blogger. I've got wordpress, blogger, and some iWeb blogs but I really need to consolidate and get them all in one place. I'll be blogging in ecto or macJournal and then using them to upload to the sites. We'll see how it all plays out over time. :)