"Princess Peach"

Big Sis had her very first soccer game this past week. Truth be told, I don't think she's super in love with the whole sports thing in general. But she was old enough to be on the peewee team this year and I give her props for wanting to try something new. She always has a good attitude and participates, and you would never know it's not her thing; except for the fact that she happily trots along about 10 feet behind the action twirling her hair and occasionally
looking at her fingernails. Every now and then she makes contact with the ball, accidentally.

She was befriended by a little boy on her team at their first practice. He's pretty much always within 2 feet of her. And since day one he has called her, "Princess Peach." If you're not familiar with the reference, she's the little blond-haired princess from Super Mario Brothers. Big Sis does not seem to mind. ;)

A couple of weeks ago, Coach K was looking for someone to make our team flag.

She asked me if I was crafty, to which I replied, "I'm not...but my husband is!"

And thus it came to be that J was volunteered to be the official flag maker.
He cut out and frayed fabric letters for the team name and decided it definitely needed fringe around the edge. However, the sewing machine was not working out as he'd hoped and he couldn't find any sort of adhesive that would stick to the flag material. But he looked pretty cute sitting in the recliner on Friday night with the lamp pulled over top of him, the fabric across his knee, and a needle and thread hand-stitching the whole thing.

They won their first game 10-2!
Shhh, don't tell anybody. We're not supposed to keep score, even though everybody totally does.

Good game, good game, "Princess Peach!"