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day 3185: The Beginning of The Neverending Hockey Season.

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day 3185: The Beginning of The Neverending Hockey Season. I.

normally at this time of year, we’re closing out another fun hockey season. the last games are played and the ice is melted at our community arena and we enjoy a few weekends with nothing much to do as the weather warms and spring sets in.

but this year, odin has been enjoying hockey so much that he decided he wanted to join the heat hockey club in the big city of onalaska, wisconsin.

day 3185: The Beginning of The Neverending Hockey Season. II.

they have enough players and money to keep their ice year round and they had their first practice of the off season this weekend and continue through june! which means, in all likelihood, we’ll be gearing up for hockey on 80+ degree days. and it also means we’ll be making a trip to the big city twice a week and giving up a good chunk of our weekend days. but odin had a great time at the first practice running drills and meeting kids from around the area so that makes it all worthwhile.

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day 3175: the annual kids versus parents hockey game!

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day 3175: the annual kids versus parents hockey game! I.

it’s the end of another hockey season, which means it’s time for the annual kids versus parents hockey game!

which is really an opportunity for the kids to skate circles around the parents while trying not to crush us too badly. and an opportunity for the parents to try not to crush the kids, literally 🙂

i couldn’t help sneaking over to the kids bench for a photo op with odin.

day 3175: the annual kids versus parents hockey game! II.

the parents didn’t do too badly against the kids. we sort-of held out for two periods of the game and kept the score to within a few goals but the kids pulled away in the last period and won 12 to 4. sigh.

but i did score a goal, didn’t fall down, and even got an honest steal away from my own son! whooohoooo! and, odin scored three goals!

a fun time was had by all. i can’t believe another season has come and gone. maybe next year we’ll beat the kids, but i’m not going to place any bets.

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day 3164: playing Uno with grandpa and grandma snowdeal!

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day 3164: playing Uno with grandpa and grandma snowdeal! I.

grandpa and grandma snowdeal drove a long way to watch odin play in his next-to-the-last hockey game of the season and while they hung out they got to play looooooots of Uno which is one of odin’s favorite ways to pass the time.

they almost didn’t even notice that he likes to invent rules as he goes along which, surprisingly, seem to favor him winning 🙂

day 3164: playing Uno with grandpa and grandma snowdeal! II.

is the tendancy to enjoy card and dice games genetic? i’m don’t think odin knows that i grew up playing Uno ( and Yahtzee ) with my grandma and grandpa snowdeal.

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day 3158: odin wins the open skate race. again.

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day 3158: odin wins the open skate race. again.

when we’re not sitting watching odin in hockey practice a couple nights a week and not watching him play in hockey games a couple nights a week, we’re at “open skate” with him at the hockey arena for a couple of hours each night on saturday and sundays so he can “relax” on the ice and goof around with other kids when the arena is open to the general public.

each night they have races for “all comers” divided into age groups and odin has progressed this year from being marginally competitive to being The Kid To Beat in the 7-8 year old races. now he handily wins every race against a group of maybe a half dozen kids.

not sure if he’s actually faster, or maybe just more motivated to get the free bratwurst that’s awarded to the winner 🙂

normally they do two laps around the rink but i was caught off guard when i framing this shot at the end of the first and final lap in this race. i was testing the light and didn’t get the other kids in the frame behind odin who didn’t stand a chance even as he slowed down and paused to give me a “poppi! what are you doing on the ice embarrassing me!” look.

aaaaand he’s blurry because i didn’t have the shutter speed right. gah. might have to try for a re-do next week when he wins. again.

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day 3146: odin’s handmade pop-up valentine’s day cards.

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day 3146: odin's handmade pop-up valentine's day cards. I.

odin has been experimenting with making pop-up paperworks. he’s totally fascinated with how to make three-dimensional creations so we got a few books and read some tutorials online and he decided to put his skills to work and came up with a simple but beautiful design for valentine’s day cards for his classmates.

he wanted a card that would pop-up a heart when opened and came up with the two layer design all by himself. and he certainly didn’t inherit my formidable power of procrastination because he came up with a plan to complete all the cards well ahead of valentine’s day!

day 3146: odin's handmade pop-up valentine's day cards. II.

here’s a closer-up look of the design of the heart. that’s some pretty precise x-acto knife work!

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day 3137: house of cards.

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day 3137: house of cards. I.

no, i’m not talking about the new netflix “house of cards” “television” series. i mean the old school house of cards build from playing cards. odin has been building them for years and for the most part the design have been somewhat traditional.

but today dreamed up a whole new design for card house. visually it’s quite a stunning design and, truth be told, i have no idea how he built it.

day 3137: house of cards. II.

i’m not sure how functional it would be to actually live in, but that’s besides the point. think of it as card house art with a modernist architectural inspiration 🙂