Springfield gymnastics meet 2013

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFm2r8pNuPQ
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Maggie does Alicia Keys (warning may need to turn down volume)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMNlI4PNa9Q

A parent's dilemma

I took Ben to Springfield for a gymnastics meet this weekend.  We are not a fan of this meet, not really sure exactly why, but one reason is because they gloss over the individual events and only give a medal for the all-around scores.  Ben did a great job this year and his overall scores were very good.  As usual, he was the highest scorer on the team, but his friend Adam did really well too.  In fact, Adam has improved so much this year, he is much older than the other boys and started much later than they did.
At the end of the meet, Adam scored 50.7 and Ben scored 52.3, they were pretty close.  When they came to the awards ceremony, they announced that Ben was in second place.  I was thinking that there must have been a boy on another team that had beaten him.  No, they said that Adam came first and scored 56.7.  WHAT??????
I think they may have messed other scores up as well because a lady went over to the announcer after the ceremony and was talking to him.  By the time I found Ben, he had disappeared, so I couldn't ask about the scores.  I told Ben just to give Adam the win and not worry about it.  We all knew he had won in reality.  Now, I'm wondering if that's the right decision to make.  Will he always grow up wondering why we didn't fight for him?

Girl Scout cookies

We picked up the Girl Scout cookies for distribution on Thursday. It was more work than I had expected because the girls had sold almost 2,000 boxes this year. Ben read out what everyone ordered and Barbara,  Maggie and  I ran around putting the orders together

Greta came home from running half way through and helped too, she's great at that kind of thing

Our dining room was full of boxes by the time we were done.  Hopefully they will be picked up soon.
Just when I was thinking I don't ever want to see a Girl Scout cookie again, I realized I have to turn around and get rid of Maggie's orders now!!!!

What a week......

We have definitely had a week of ups and downs. The kids were off school for Presidents' Day on Monday, but Maggie still went to gymnastics in the afternoon.  Apparently she did not have a very good session because her coach was waiting for Sam when he picked her up and told him that Maggie was now on final warning.  Apparently, she was being disruptive in the class and they have had enough.  Fast forward to Wednesday, when Sam picked Maggie up from school.  Maggie's teacher was waiting for him because Maggie had a full-blown tantrum in class, ending up by kicking her drawer and breaking it.  Either Maggie is not having a good week or Sam really needs to stop picking her up from places!!!!

Big news of the week is that Ben has a girlfriend!!!  He's been after her for a while, but she had another boyfriend.  They broke up because he cheated on her (they are in sixth grade, for crying out loud!!!).  Ben has done a couple of things with her before, now they are enjoying their snow day together playing Monopoly!!!!

We have our first snow day of this Winter-snow, ice and freezing rain.  Glad we stayed at home....

Wonder what Friday will bring....

Weird quote of the day

When we got up yesterday morning, Ben said "Mum, can we go to the hardware store today, I want to look at appliances". Since I wanted to look at tiles at Lowe's, I told him I'd take him later on in the afternoon.  He even had to call me to remind me I was running out of time when I was going a bunch of other things I had to do....
Being curious, I took him over to Lowe's to see what his agenda really was.  He went through every single refrigerator in the store and critiqued every one of them.  He's a seriously strange child, but supremely entertaining!!!!

I think he's been watching too much HGTV!!!!

M.U.G. Meet at SLGC

Ben had an unsanctioned gymnastics meet at his gym yesterday

Ben came first overall in this competition, although he only won 3 individual events and didn't medal in 2 of them. I don't think he was on his best form but he did really well on rings, parallel bars and high bar.  I took a couple of videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j1TCOdBb7M&list=UUAOWX-wOARFYsMlXtYv82vA&index=1



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