We went to a party for 11-year-old Sarah's hapless (but sometimes fun and funny) soccer team last night at a nearby park. This park is a couple of miles away, and I had never seen it before. Well, it turns out there is an 18-hole disc golf course there! Not the best course in the world or anything, but I played a few holes, and it seemed pretty well laid out (except for one hole that was ridiculous through a bunch of trees and brush next to a creek ... looks like one of the stupid holes at Seattle's course up by Northgate Mall).
Sometime, I'll have to take the boys down there. Or maybe just Justin ... Cody gets discouraged too easily at this kind of stuff because he doesn't have the patience to throw it right, even though he can actually throw it as far as Justin (I've seen it). Nice to have something close, but to discover this just at the onset of five months of ovenlike heat ... doh!
While we were there, Justin was in his 14-year-old hormone glory, flirting with one of the girls on Sarah's team (who is two years younger than him but girls grow faster than boys at this point so she's actually about his height and arguably more mature). At one point, trying to impress her, he tried to run and jump across a shallow creek about three feet wide.
I don't think it was possible for him to have wiped out more profoundly. He planted his foot square in the middle of the creek, upon which it slipped out from under him, plunging him over so that he landed on his ass in the muck of the far edge of the creek. He spent the rest of the time at the party half covered in caked mud all over his clothes.
Graceful, he's not.
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So ... do your kids read this blog? If so, are you ready for Justin to swear grisly deadly vengeance against you for taking his pratfall to the reading public? :-|
Posted by: Feff on May 21, 2004 09:22 PMThey don't read it, but if he were to see this, Justin would probably think it is funny. He doesn't quite get the concept of embarrassment yet (and boy do we wish he would), and he needs to soon if he has any hope of landing a girl.
Posted by: Observer on May 22, 2004 07:13 AMYou know, I don't think I could live somewhere where I couldn't go outside for half the year... Uff.
Posted by: Humbaba on May 25, 2004 09:59 AM