Sunday, June 20, 2010

Track and Field















































This year 5 of the kids did track. We found out that they do the Hershey track program here like they used to do in Az. They were so excited. The only downside was the qualifying meet was on a Sunday, so they only got to participate in the two practice meets. They even did preschool age events so Giddy got to participate. It was so cold during track we froze! The kids had fun and it was good to get out of the house. Sol is so serious and competitive. His first race was the 200m, he was winning the whole time and looking around and at the end the kid passed him, he was so mad and came up to the stands furious. His other races he made sure that that did not happen again. That kid is so competitive that when he is older if he can learn to channel that he is going to be amazing at whatever he does. Ben is the exact opposite. He smiles the whole time he is running, would visit with anybody around him, as he ran by the stands he would wave and make sure we were watching and taking pictures. He cracks me up. He still always got a ribbon and never got below 4th. Hannah is also miss competitive, in everything that she does. Playing a board game or family kickball at the park always ends in her and her dad arguing about the rules and who is right. Those two love to win and don't play well together. She tried to do every event and got a ribbon in everything. She was really good at the hammer throw. Sim does not really like track, he will go do the throwing events and then sit in the stands and won't do any of the running events. During practices he has to run and he would always get second or first. He says it hurts his lungs when he runs. Gid was hilarious, we didn't know he could participate, so the first meet he showed up and ran in his jeans and vans, and still got 2nd. The next week he came prepared, he had a blast, he thought he was so big like his older siblings.

1 comment:

Sarah Hawkins said...

WOW! you were busy with all your posts! So fun, we miss you guys so much! We are excited to spend almost a month with you! Yeah!