Blackhawk Cup Season!

For those of you not familiar with IL youth hockey, the Blackhawk Cup is a series of games to compete for the state championship title. Last weekend Petey's hockey team competed in the round robin playoffs and won all 3 games, qualifying them for the three game "finals" against CYA (Chicago Young Americans). On Thursday they beat CYA 2-1 in TRIPLE overtime. That's three 15 minute periods (They're normally 17 minutes, but are shortened for the cup series), followed by two full 10 minute OT periods and just under 3 minutes into the 3rd OT, Pete's team scored for the win. On Saturday afternoon, they play CYA for the 2nd game of the series. If they win, the series is over and the hard-wear will be passed out. So, think hockey, think positive and think ...... GO MISSION!!


Now here's a moment of Mom bragging:
Petey scored the first goal of the game on Thursday. After being tripped, he managed to get a wrist shot off while on his knees. It hit the cross bar, bounced off the goalie's back, spun around on the goal line and then plunked down in the net!

Odd literature.

Imagine our surprise when Roslyn told us that she was saving her money to buy a "diarrhea book". I wasn't sure if this was an early interest in medicine or just some weird idea one of her brothers put in her head. When we asked her to tell us about this book she wanted, she said it was the one she saw on T.V. Needless to say, we started wondering if getting digital cable was such a good idea after all! Then it all became clear once we saw the commercial she was referring to .......

....... the electronic diarrhea book, for girls only!

Our budding artist.

John is such an artist, that he's compulsive about it. He'll get a picture or an idea in his head and the world stops until he can get it down on paper with markers or paint. That was the case today, he had a picture in his head on the way home from school and had to create it the second he walked in the door.

My sister, Susan, is an artist/art teacher and has shown John how to do a rough sketch of his idea before painting. At first he wasn't thrilled with the idea of following a process, he just wanted to do it his way. However, the lesson obviously stuck because walking in the door from school today the following conversation occurred:

John: I'm going to draw my picture in pencil before I paint it, that way I can get it just right.

Me: That sounds like a good idea, just like Aunt Susan showed you. That's how artists do it, and she's an artist.

John: Yeah, and she's old.

Apparently John respects Aunt Susan's "experience".

Too true!

In Friday's Tribune, someone had sent a letter to the editor that I had to share.

"Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the others have thirty-one, except February which hath ..... EIGHTY!!"

Anyone else sick of winter??!!

Cooties!

Sunday evening (right after Jim left for London) Petey spiked a 102.3 F and started throwing up, along with a moderate sore throat. Tylenol would bring his temp down to 99-101, but as soon as it wore off his temp went right back to 102.3 F.

Today I took him to the doc and his ears, lungs & throat were clear and the strep test was negative. Apparently there's a 3-5 day virus going around with these symptoms.

Late this afternoon his fever finally broke and I was hopeful that he had the 3 day version vice the 5 day version. But, as things go, his temp is back up to 101 F tonight. I just hope that we can contain these cooties so no one else gets sick.