Peter made a tackle in football tonight!!!!!!! Peter is not, shall we say, an overly aggressive child. We apparently did a tremendous job during his formative years of teaching him to be nice and kind and gentle; sadly, we then decided to sign him up for organized sports! Note to the childless: if you want your future children to be athletes, raise them to be aggressive little animals!

Anyway, we've been encouraging Peter to be a little more aggressive, and today his goal was to put his shoulder into someone's tummy, wrap his arms around the guy (Peter tries to tackle by swatting at the other player's jersey), and BRING HIM DOWN!!!!! :) Apparently, he did it! He was VERY excited when he came home.

Grace had a red-letter day, too. There was some mild trauma at After-School, because apparently Ebony's parents picked her up too soon (Ebony is one of Peter's friends that Grace has latched onto). But, I took her to buy her gear for Ballet class, then we went for a special dinner together, then ice cream afterwards. I had to go to Lowe's afterwards to get something else for my interminable painting project. When we were leaving Lowe's, there was a plump, white-haired, white-bearded, fairly jolly looking man putting his cart away. He gave kind of a Ho, Ho, Ho chuckle, looked down as we passed, then said, "Bye, Grace. Be good!" Needless to say, she was all aquiver!