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Everything Update

The Lady Eagles put forth a convincing win last night against Loveland at SportsPlus. They are really starting to come together. There are still quite a few break downs but overall they are starting to put more and more plays together and starting to pass the ball around more.

Maggie is improving with every game. It really is amazing. She went from defensive pylon to a pushing, shoving, don’t mess with me little defender. Just in the last two games you could tell that she’s gotten a feel for how other players defend her and she’s starting to to give it right back to them. She’s no longer passive and it’s fun to watch. She’s standing her ground.

Molly had a private lesson on beam after gymnastics tonight. She worked hard on her leap and a few other things. She’s getting more and more confident. She has some deal worked out with Ms. Sharon and is looking forward to the meet this weekend.

Michael is doing well on guitar of course and is wanting me to start taking lessons with him now that his teacher has moved his studio to his house. I’m not sure if I want to do that or not. I don’t know if I have the bandwidth to pick it up again.

Maria has been making great progress growing up lately. We’re trying to get her past the terrible three’s that have kind of hung with her through age 5. Not that she’s terrible, I don’t mean it like that. She’s just head strong and gonna do what she wants to do, when she wants to do it, how she wants to do it. Claudine has been working with her lately on the importance of listening and doing what you’re told the first time and dog-on-it, there are consequences and they are harsh and they happen now. You’re making choices and the wrong ones aren’t good ones. So far she’s opening up to how easy life is with good choices. But she’s also admitted it’s not easy to make those choices. It’s just not always easy being good. 🙂 and it certainly isn’t always as fun.

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Lady Eagles Basketball Update

The girls are making progress. Maggie’s skills are improving with every practice and every game.

The last 2 games have been barn burners. Winning in the very last seconds of the game.

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A week ago they beat Loveland off a turn over when they were down by one point. Loveland fouled off the inbound pass and put McKenzie at the line with 1.5 seconds on the clock and two foul shots to shoot. She sank them both. The other coach was NOT happy. The other coach felt the ref made a bad call and that she had touched the ball before it went out of bounds. It went out of bounds right in front of us and a bunch of other parents on the other side of the court. She dribbled it on the other side of the blue line, it was a good call.

Pretty much the same deal last night. Our girls made a come back, and with less than 5 seconds on the clock they intercepted the ball and it went out of bounds off the other team. The teams were tied. When the other team was trying to get their bearings we inbounded the ball, took the shot and scored. All’s fair in Love, War, and Basketball.

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Katie Dog Part III

Well it’s done.

We took her in this morning first thing.  We didn’t have to wait too long.  She was completely dehydrated and ready to go. We probably should have taken care of this last week but we thought it would be easier on the kids and it was with the extra week.  She didn’t seem to suffer too much.  But the last 24-36 hours you could tell she was having a hard time.
Cost to euthanize an 45lb dog these days is ~$125

While leaving we noticed that they charged $13.00 for owner observation, or something to that affect.  C asked why that was.  The lady checking us out replied plain as day, “That’s like an office visit, if we have to do it with you in the room that means we have to do it now, if you’re not here we can do it ‘when-ever’.”  It was worth $13 to see to it that her suffering was ended as early as possible.

In all reality the sedative they gave her to put her to sleep to be euthanized did her in.

We’ll miss her.

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Katie Dog Part II

Well, the vet wasn’t far off.  Katie is now to the point where she’s looking uncomfortable and isn’t doing much at all.  We’re making the call and taking her in first thing tomorrow when the Vet opens, and/or as soon as we can get in.

It’s a sad day, but she’s had a very good life.  I think the kids are as ready for this as they’re going to get.  Having her home the last week certainly helped them with the transition and has given Katie some extra attention.

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Sports Psychology

Last night we had the pleasure of seeing the sports psychologist at CGA. Yep, we have one of those too. It comes with the package. It’s a good thing I think. Our little girls are very impressionable and to have someone who can take care of their psyches is a good thing.

We were given a heads up by Molly. She said they talked about animals and how they could relate to gymnastics or something. What kind of animal were you like? She told mom to give her the name of an animal and she’d tell her how it would be good in Gymnastics. Mom said “ok, a porcupine”. Molly thought for a minute, and said, “Ok, not a porcupine, I don’t know about those”.

The psychologist was trying to relate the story about the Indian chief. You know the one where he tells his young warriors that inside him are two wolves fighting, one is fear and anger, the other is hope and courage, or something like that. A young feller asks which one will win? and the chief answers, “Whichever one I feed.”

So she helps them figure out which animals or animal combinations they have inside them that they wish to feed and not feed. What animal qualities. Bear with me, it’s a stretch, but it’s fun for the kids and they get it because they are 8 and 9 years old.

Like a tiger is fast and graceful a snail isn’t, etc.

I was hoping they’d ask me because I was prepared to be a “Score focused Porcupine” but it didn’t come to that.

Last time we drew pictures of mirrors and wrote stuff down that was anger related if I recall right.

But in the end we had a very good conversation about goal setting and hopefully we can break Molly of her expectation to show up at meets and get 10’s. Honestly I didn’t put that idea in her head. I might have talked about 10 here or there but I never set that expectation. She knows darn well I’d be perfectly happy with an 9.875 🙂

Seriously, at this stage Molly knows what the scores are for, but she needn’t worry if she messes up a routine. It’s not the end of the world. It’s certainly not worth crying over. Now 5-6 years from now, if she falls of the beam in the Olympics. I expect some serious tears then. I mean that’s national tv and all. Heck that’s global coverage. If you don’t cry under those circumstances you’re not a team player.