Hockey no More (or Ending with a Bang)

This was Sophia's last week of Hockey and possibly last time playing as she doesn't think she will do it again next year. Her apathy towards the sport could be an issue of timing (Sunday nights) program design or maybe (aghast) she really doesn't enjoy it. She does have fun when she out there playing and has enjoyed getting all the snow on her skates, to throw at me later, and asking me to feel how sweaty her head gets. At any rate she ended with a bang. She was making great passes and even knocked over a couple of kids--it was just drills and there wasn't supposed to be any contact but I was impressed with her balance. She also so made a nice goal, when the keeper came out and gave a standard crappie flop in front of the net, Sophia just lifted the puck over him and scored--I thought it was a good show of patience. She was also asked by the coach to demonstrate here skating to the rest of the kids and had every other kid watching her. Merrick on the other hand will miss hockey and the zamboni. He only sat still on my lap when he was attentively watching the zamboni doors for the ice beast to come out. The was alternated by him hollaring for the zamboni or foraging. He did score a couple of 'bleacher fritos' A bleacher frito covers a wide range of objects, but all definitions include "previously dropped, potentially edible object that is found." This time I think he even found an actual frito, I would be remis to not mention that he apparently filled up on bleacher fritos as he ate nothing for supper when we got home.