Please indulge me a moment while I brag about my little soccer star who scored the winning goal in her league's championship game. Actually, she scored both goals for her team to win 2-1.
The teams were pretty evenly matched and right at the end of the first half, Naomi broke away and dribbled past all defenders and just launched this beautiful shot to the upper right corner.
No one else scored until the last 5 minutes, then the opponents scored. Tied 1-1. Then with one minute left in the game, her teammate took a shot that the goalie blocked, but didn't catch, and Naomi was right there to knock it in. The Highlights (team name inspired by the uniform color) won the title. It was a lot of fun. She was quite impressive and we are quite proud.
Deon and Jonah went as nerds, Liliana and Naomi were bees, I was the beehive, and Marea? Marea was Ariel. She was supposed to be Tiana. I bought the costume. It was the ONLY costume I bought . But the dress was just a skimpy little halter top, and it also happened to be cold that night so Deon and I agreed she needed to wear a shirt under it. Marea did not agree. I can tell this will not be the last of our wardrobe disagreements. So I let her off the hook with the Tiana costume and offered to whip her up a bee costume (in the 2 minutes we had before leaving) What was I thinking? Why would Marea want to wear the same thing as her sisters and complete a very cute little family theme. It ended with a, "Fine, just be Ariel or something."
