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day 4173 – 338/365. whoohooo! 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

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day 4173 - 338/365. whoohooo! 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

odin’s hockey team won their third and final tournament game 6-2. great game. even though they won 2 of the 3 games they played, in a bracket tournament, losing the first game means the best they could hope for was third place, which means no trophy. hi. ho. who needs a trophy? not these kids!

the parents tried to get a proper team photo of the kids, but they were excited to get some time in racing around the 400m olympic training speed skating track, so the best we could hope for was a half-hearted team photo 🙂

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day 4166 – 331/365. ’tis the season for a hockey double header!

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day 4166 - 331/365. ’tis the season for a hockey double header!

we drove back from the upper peninsula of michigan and turn around the next day and drive 35 miles for a double header hockey game against onalaska.

odin’s team won the first game, 3-9, with 22 shots on goal to their 16 shots on goal and they tied the second game against the same team 7-7, with 33 shots on goat to their 23 shots on goal.

rumor has it onalaska was not expecting to lose by 6 points the first game so they had fire in their bellies for the second game. congrats to both teams for a great games.

i have to say, odin did a good job but he was off a bit and didn’t play his best games. i think vacation sleep schedule, the drive and quick turnaround took a toll on him.

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day 4165 – 330/365. odin demonstrates his advanced card house building skills.

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day 4165 - 330/365. odin demonstrates his advanced card house building skills.

post thanksgiving hanging-out with family and odin decides he wants to build a card house. he’s pretty good at building them as we’ve been doing it for many years, but i was skeptical he could build one sturdy enough to stay standing after stacking magazines and books on top of it.

i thought it would topple after the first magazine. nope. ok, but surely it wouldn’t remain standing under a thin book and a magazine? it stood. how about a magazine, a thin book and several hundred pages of theodore roosevelt’s “the wilderness hunter”? IT STILL STOOD!

at this point everyone was so amazed that the dogs had to come check out what was going on. it did not still stand.

( he’s looking a serious here because it’s the fourth shot i’ve taken and he’s a little Over IT. )

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325/365. odin scores distinguished honors after his first term of public school!

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325/365. odin scores distinguished honors after his first term of public school!

we knew things were going well, but it’s pretty amazing considering he’s still getting used to the concept of grades and tests. he’s very much enjoying the challenge and i’ll say once again that the great foundation he got from his years at the waldorf school is showing ( not just the intellectual foundation but the mental as well ).

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day 4152 – 317/365. the first hockey game of the 2015-2016 season!

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day 4152 - 317/365. the first hockey game of the 2015-2016 season!

and odin’s first game as a pee wee skating with 11 and 12 year olds. viroqua played sparta at home. holy cow, right from the start it was apparent this season is going to be something new. with bigger kids on the ice it seemed like they were playing double time!

i wasn’t sure what to expect, since odin’s team has a new goalie with no experience. but he did a great job and the defense, odin included, did a tremendous job helping him out. the offense kept the pressure on with 24 shots on goal ( twice that of the opposing team ).

whooohooo – viroqua won 8 to 5!

( in this shot odin is in the foreground chasing down the puck. )