Points and pies

Mom sent me an e-mail this week saying she was looking at Michael's photo in the Lexington paper.  His photo was in the paper with the Scott County Wildcats basketball team, who won the state AAU Division II championship.  Go Wildcats!  Some very close games and then some not at all close games during that tournament.  A fabulous way to end the season.

Meanwhile, as part of a fund raiser for the Children's Miracle Network, I agreed to be pied in the face.  One of my favorite students paid $55 to pie me.  I didn't wear the hair net or the full body garbage bag covering which was perhaps not the best decision as I had to teach after receiving the pie and began to smell like souring dairy products.  I will try to attach the video (may not show up in internet explorer, try mozilla instead) that the student sent me afterward.  I kind of got the last laugh, as you'll see.

Sports weekend

 Michael played both basketball (in Georgetown) and soccer (in Cincinnati) this weekend.  The best part of the Georgetown tournament was that the team won; they went undefeated, 5-0, in spite of the fact that Michael wasn't there for three of the five games.

The best part of the Cincinnati tournament was that we got to hang out with Robin and her family in between the 2:30 and 8:30 games.  (The worst part was that Steven had to work, so he couldn't go.  Stephen spent the night with us the night before and drove up with us, so it was kind of the same.  Get it?  Stephen and Steven.  Ha ha ha.)  I love, love seeing her and her family.  Michael had a great time, too - he was upstairs with Jake and their friend from Ukraine, Anastasia, the entire time doing I'm not sure what, but we could hear laughing, so we assumed all was well. 

Elizabeth chose to stay at home, after spending the night at her friend Emily's house.  She spent hours reading One Direction "fan fiction", which is a new genre.  Fans of celebrities write fiction that feature the celebrity or celebrity group, post them on-line, add chapters periodically, and wait for fans to read their stories.  Elizabeth devours the stories that feature the five-guy band.  I love it that she spends so much time reading, even though some of the topics are rather dark (murder, stalking, etc.).  I want to protect her from the topics, but she's 12, so it's already out there in her brain.

And here are precious photos of Niki and Zoe.