May 04 2008
A girl and her hockey career….
As many of you know, Em is a hockey freak. She is OBSESSED with all things hockey. I’m going to assume that not all four year olds can tell you every single NHL team in existence, which city and state they play in and for many teams, she also knows the goalies. Which quantifies my “OBSESSED” comment!
Well, yesterday it was a beautiful spring day and she was outside playing hockey with her playset. The neighbor kids joined her. Both of the kids play hockey, so Em was in heaven. The neighbor girl plays goalie, so she decided that Em should wear some of her gear. First she brings the helmet. Em shrieks in delight.
Next they decide she needs to be better protected. I mean, you never know how hard you can be hit with a tennis ball puck, so they go for the leg pads (they forget the height difference between the girls is a foot or so!).
Em is a FIERCE goalie though… she protects her storage bin goal with all her might!
But I guess they felt she wasn’t protected enough… so they brought MORE pads.
and of course, you can’t have THIS much padding and not have a JERSEY!!! (I try very hard not to pee my pants every time I see this picture).
But wearing this much gear and so fiercely defending your goal makes you very hot. So she had to lose the helmet…. she was “too hot”
Back to defending her net till the death.
UH OH…. she starts to topple….
HEEEEELLLLLPPPPPPPPP!!!!! I’ve fallen and I LITERALLY can’t get up!
It was at this point that she decided that leg pads are completely over rated and she decided she would rather play defenseman.
The demise of a goalie career…. at least for this afternoon.
This is such a wonderful…and funny story!!! Thanks so much for sharing it.
Hey…It looks like all the snow has melted. How long is your spring and summer there? I would love to visit Alaska. I have been telling my husband…we need to move there. Would you recommend it? Moving there?
Susan
Icequeenon 22 May 2008 at 7:21 pm
Well, this year, the summer season has played evil tricks on us. Our snow melted, we thought spring was here, then got 2 feet of snow. It melted again, we thought spring was here, it snowed again. The last time it snowed was May 1st. Spring (shuuush) I believe is finally here!
We will have amazing, gorgeous (sometimes rainy) weather until late August, when things will start to cool down. We’ll enjoy our 24 hours of daylight for that time (it will lessen, but you don’t really notice to fall).
I love living in Alaska… and can’t imagine living anywhere else! (well, except for deep deep winter, and then usually a trip to someplace with white sand fixes that, and I’m good for another season of darkness). So of course I’d say “yes! move here!”.