aannnnnnddddd here. (Peekaboo)

Hello again.

Not sure I like the new format.

Found:

Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan (“What is Life?” 1995: 232)

Life is too shoddy a production… to have been designed by a flawless Master. And yet life is more impressive and less predictable than any “thing” whose nature can be accounted for solely by “forces” acting deterministically. The godlike qualities of life on Earth include neither omniscience nor omnipotence, although an argument could be made for earthly omnipresence…The cosmos, more dazzling than any sect’s god, is enough. Life is existence’s celebration.”

Hellllooooo Toast!

School starts:

Mali plays defense on the girls JV soccer team. They won 2-0 and 7-2 their first two games, and there's some kind of jamboree this weekend.
Mali's courses:
- French
- Literature & Composition
- History
LUNCH - Andrew and Kyle have the same time.
- PE - Coach Terry is her teacher!
- Algebra

Andrew says "Senior IB = Junior IB on crack."
Last night's 5k did not go so well. He ran into a garbage can, a tree, and a Jesuit runner. Saturday is the Trask Mountain Assault - a fun (?) 3 mile race on steep slopes and across rivers.

Track season starts!

Andrew PR'ed in his first 400m of the year! Time of 53.93s! This with tendinitis (Achilles) that's keeping him from fully practicing.

Mali's Birthday! 14 orbits!

I took Mali, Andrew, and Mali's friend Tesia to Tom's Pancake House for a birthday breakfast. Then took Mali and Tesia to their first soccer game of the Spring Season, where they won 4-0! Woohoo!
I gave Mali a Flip Video camera, and I think she liked it. She started using it right away. As she set it up, she said, "What's the date?: Then laughed "oh yeah, my birthday." We all cracked up.
Andrew immediately posted it on Facebook.

Sports Update

Andrew is no longer undefeated in the 100yd Backstroke! He came in third to a swimmer from Beaverton, and Southridge's freshman prodigy decided to do backstroke too. Still, Andrew was only 0.7 off his P.R., and he had been sick - as all of us had been after Christmas.
Mali has her first Futsal game today with her soccer team. Futsal is an indoor version of soccer played on hardwood floors with a smaller, hard ball that doesn't bounce much.

Christmas

Andrew and Mali took the train to Tacoma from Portland and I scooped them up for a night at Grandma and Grandpa's. The morning of Christmas Eve I handed out some presents:
They asked for new Vans (shoes), which they got. Also included:
Magnetic Bucky Balls (and a little magnetic dude - not shown)


and new gloves, fingered AND fingerless.

PR Excitement

Andrew set a personal record in the 5k at the Southridge vs. Jesuit XC meet last night: 17:55.50, for 16th place against the obsessively good Jesuit team. It was the 5th best time for Southridge. I did not attend, as I am wrestling my new jobs in Redmond to the ground.

Saturday I retrieved the last of my stuff from the house in Beaverton. Mali studiously ignored me, while Andrew watched me like a hawk to ensure I did not leave with anything not on the official list. He is very protective of his mother, and I can appreciate that.

He is very funny. Once I walked up next to him and stood very close, hovering.
He just looked up and said, "You're in my bubble."
I love my boy.