Since the last time

It has been a while since anything has made it here. We have entered the youth soccer phase of life as Jack is now on the Hannaford Maroon team. I've deamed pre-5th grade soccer clusterball. The ball is somewhere in the center, like a queen bee and her drones and they all keep buzzing around the queen trying to poke at her. Occasionally the ball gets free and they all rush to cluster up once again. Jack's favorite part is the stampede. He runs in the middle grabs onto a shirt or two around him while making an effort to kick the ball and falls down pulling at least two people with him. There is usually a pile-up after which Jack jumps up does a sweet dance move and jumps on my leg. I'm the assistant coach.
Jack is also doing gymnastics. THis is starting to sound like a perfect Christmas greetings letter but bear with me. Most of the kids are in full time pre-school at this point in their lives and we figured we would spend less money and put him in a couple of things that are short term and fun. Anyway gymnastics is incredible. He goes to this gym in which they have every concievable contraption with which to vault from, pommel towards, nimble up and swing on and big pits of foam blocks. Pictures will follow but no he doesn't wear a leotard. One can rent the entire gym for their birthday. Mine just passed so maybe next year.