Lacrosse

Once the Jr High lacrosse season was over, Daniel was given the option to go practice with the High School JV team....Andrew and I both were a little worried about it as the Jr High league was rough enough, but he so wanted to do it that we let him make the decision.....After about a week of taking him to practice, I was dropping him off one day and these grown men with virtual beards and big hairy legs called out "hey Daniel"....I did a double take and then realised that they were some of the High School "kids" on the lacrosse team with him....not very encouraging:)

After a couple of weeks of just practicing with the team, it somehow evolved to him playing most of every game (leading to more than a few anxious moments for mom and dad!)... he's taken a few brutal hits, but no amount of bumps and bruises seems to deter him and he scored his first goal last week too (which I missed by the way.....I left the game early to go to a RS meeting!!) 

He's been playing awesome and he just loves it....I even think he's proud of his bruise "war wounds"

I guess it's one of the hard things of your kids growing up that you have to watch them put themselves in harms way and sometimes get hurt. But the silver lining to all that is watching them jump back up and give it another go:)