Kayla scored 2 goals today in her soccer game! She loves soccer and she loves talking about her soccer goals! I must have heard 15 times how she dribbled past a defender then kicked the ball up and over the goalies' head and into the goal last week! With a cast on her arm! She is a ball hog sometimes, but she really is pretty good!

Kayla broke her arm!

It started out a really good day. We took the ferry boat to the Giants game and watched our favorite picther, Tim Lincecum, beat the Phillies. After the game we ran the bases and saw uncle George down on the field ushering the crowd. We went outside the stadium to a little park and I let the kids play and that's when it happened! Kayla was playing on the spinny thing and fell off, landing on her right arm. It's just a small fracture, not a real big deal. Kayla actually said she wanted it to be broken so she could see an x-ray and get a cast!

I've always joked that I want the kids to break bones. Not that I want them to get hurt, but I don't want them to be afraid to go balls out all the time! There's a movie quote I really like. It's from the 1997 movie, Gattaca. Anton can't understand how his genetically inferior brother can beat him when they swim out to sea and see who chickens out first and swims back to shore. Vincent says, "You know how I did it? I never saved anything for the swim back!".

I hope my girls never save anything for the swim back.

So, it's been a full year since I've posted anything on here. I apologize. The last year has been tough. But I fully intend to keep this thing going!

Even when I started this, my intent was to have the girls take over when they have the skills. Obviously, they are not going to start writing HTML yet, but I've asked Kayla to start writing stories and journal type things to type and I can add it to her website. Today is the first one! It's actually from April, but I'm finally posting it.

From April 13th, 2014:

KAYLA is playing softball again. SHE'S on zara's team. HER coach still calls her smily. WE play lots of games that are really fun. MOMA brings snacks saterday and tuesday. WE love our games because they are lots of fun!

From April 14th, 2014:

Moma thought the hamster was dead then she lift up the couch and she was screaming like crazy!

Hopefully I can make this more of a frequent occurance!

And finally some funny Kayla rhetoric...

"My feet are all sweaty. I like sweaty feet! You know why? When you're at school you can take off your shoes and climb up the slide easy!"

Kayla went to her friend, Phoenix's, house the other day and played on her trampoline. Before bed, she was excitedly telling me about the trampoline and the tricks that they were doing. She tells me how they would jump up in the air and land on their butt and bounce back up. Telling me about it wasn't enough though. She tried to demonstrate. She jumped up in the air and landed flat on her butt bone like she was going to bounce back up! Ouch! It was one of those times where I knew by the way she was crying and the face she was making that it really hurt!

Kayla really likes softball. She hustles on defense and is really proud of getting an out! She has a lot of fun out there! She must be smiling about it all the time because her coach started calling her, Smiley. The nickname has stuck. The coach still calls her Smiley, and the girls on the team call her Smiley. It's pretty cute and it fits her!

If Kayla had the choice, she just might eat mac and cheese with hot dogs every night for dinner! She is the pickiest eater of the group and she influences Zara and Ari into refusing to eat certain things. Arielle is finally disregarding Kayla's opinion. Which is great because Kayla will make up her mind that she doesn't like something before she tries it.
Things are changing though! Last night Kayla tried sugar snap peas and liked it! It wouldn't be that incredible except that she did it all on her own. I didn't encourage, demand, or bribe her to eat it at all! In fact, she was finished with all her food in record time and she ate all her broccoli, even the stems! Then! Then, she asked why there were no peppers or tomatoes on her burrito!? What the heck?! I tried not to act excited, but I'm really happy that she is at least entertaining the prospect of eating more things! Especially since we are all supposed to be eating more healthy! Doctor's orders!
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Kayla is playing softball this spring. She plays for the Barbie Bicycles and is number 1! Number one is usually reserved for the little guy on the team and although Kayla is not the very smallest on the team, she is the second smallest. She plays her first game this Saturday! I can't wait!