Family Survivor Night

Tonight was "family survivor night" at the middle school. Seila and Kai were begging to go so we gave in after dinner and headed over. Kale was positive that he didn't want to play any of the games. I told him he didn't have to and then later Justin told him he had to. So, he started crying. If you tell him that he has to then the anxiety just overwhelms him. If you give him the choice, he'll almost always choose to participate in the end (okay, didn't work for Space Mountain). I reassured him that he didn't have to and yes, when directions were given and he understood the game, he chose to play. We all had a great time. We were on a team with 3 other families and we worked together at 3 different games to try and win the most point for the night.

Our team did a super great job and we came in 2nd place of about 8 teams. Justin and I felt our ages a bit when dinner tried coming back up. No worries, we held it down. We did come home with a few injuries though. Seila has two floor burns, I have one, and Justin has 3 nasty looking bruises on his legs (someone else's cowboy boots met his shin). We really had a great time! Mr. Barrett gave Kale a medal even though our team didn't win and Mr. Orth mentioned in the mic that Kale and his 4 year old daughter Kenya were MVP's on our team. Kale was pretty proud of that.

He was awfully disappointed to find that his scooter had been stolen while we were inside. The kids all rode their bikes and because Kale won't ride his, he took the scooter. It doesn't chain up very well and so it was just left there. It's not valuable at all. In fact, it is beat up and I'm surprised that it's still functional. However, it was Kale's mode of transportation and someone thought that they needed it more than he did. It's gone. Bummer. Maybe now he'll have to ride his bike.