Soccer Stress

Here are some soccer pics from last week's game. Glad I took some then, because last night was a bust. Our little team got waxed, and Emmaline was going on no nap and cried everytime the other team scored a goal.... Poor thing had a meltdown in the middle of the field at one point and I had to go get her. My fault for not getting her in the bed at naptime. We live and learn, eh? There is a team picture here (notice how Annelise is a giant....) and then one of Annelise getting into the game and the other one is of Emmaline getting right in there with all the boys and getting the ball. We didn't see much of that this week because of the no nap, but I expect she will be back on her game next time. Tonight we have church, which also means church supper (yum!). You know the church supper chef is good when he has been featured on the food network!! We are starting a new session there for Wed. nights, so we are looking forward to seeing how this new class goes. Still just kinda hangin' out at that church- just not positive about joining quite yet. We do really like it, though, so I won't be surprised if that is where we do end up. Sorry about these pictures being all over the place. I still have no idea how to get them where I want them. I am so computer-challenged....

Brian and I have been thinking lately about what Emmaline will possibly want to do when she "grows up". We know Annelise will be in the science/medical field. There is no doubt about that. We thought maybe Emmaline would be an architect or something that works with perfectionism and anal retentiveness... Last night she just informed us that she is going to be a ballet teacher. A "serious one" she said. I can definitely see that. She is mean enough and she has the body of a ballerina. She has become obsessed lately with taking ballet and she has never seen or had a class, so something is there that is just a natural desire. Obviously she may not be cut out for the stress of competitive sports, so she may just succeed at ballet. She also wants to play the violin. She must be pulling all of this from some ancestors way back, because none of us or our current relatives is quite as "sophisticated" as she is turning out to be. Annelise has decided on the flute for an instrument, but she prefers the sports to dance, and she also wants to start tae kwon do (spell check, there...). I feel sorry for anyone she kicks with those mule legs and big ol' feet. At their school, they have to choose an instrument in first grade and stick with it all throughout 12th grade. I think that is great, I just hope they like what they pick. Oh, the field trip to the zoo was pure mania just like I thought it would be. Let me just say I truly despise the zoo. It was pure torture. Even though the orangutangs had their baby and he was too cute for words. Tommorrow I have to work in the explore science lab for Annelise's class. They are studying birds. I hope to talk Brian into taking the girls to school on Friday and letting me stay here and clean. Don't tell him, I am still trying to come up with a way to get him to agree to it without him realizing it! I got some pictures of the granite we chose. They don't really do it justice, but still, it is pretty close. I will post those tommorrow. Time for Emmaline Zoo-Girl 's nap, so off we go to read a story and get to some zzzz's.