As I noted last summer, Zan has shown a proclivity for sports that I, shall we say, did not possess as a youth. (As I’ve also noted, my childhood friends used to call me “the special kid” as pertained to athletic activity. They were being generous.)
Well, now you can add “lacrosse” to Wonder Boy’s repertoire, which also includes baseball, soccer and tennis. (He has not yet played organized basketball, but I sense that on the horizon, as he’s been practicing a lot of his own volition.)
When Jayna was born, her flaming orange hair made me wonder if perhaps there’d been a mix-up at the fertility clinic. In light of Zan’s ever-burgeoning sports career, I am now wondering if either of my children share my DNA.
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Lacrosse? Blimey.
I didn’t know that was a popular sport over there. Here it’s mainly played in very upper class private girls boarding schools.
Not that it’s a girls sport of course (although I still maintain baseball is)
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Lacrosse IS a girl’s sport, too! I never played, but my granddaughter does and she loves it.. It’s bigger on the US East Coast than elsewhere, but its popularity is growing.
Jon, Zan looks very cute in his LAX gear! I think it’s great that he enjoys sports so much, and seems to be good at them. He’ll find his niche one day.
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I’ve never seen a lacrosse game, and had no idea such intense helmets were needed – it looks like one of them is going to turn serial killer or there’s going to be some big rumble on the field.
I used to watch the Ohio University lacrosse teams practice outside my apartment, and decided this is only second to rugby in its dementedness. Let’s fling a really hard little ball at each other and try to catch said ball with a tiny net at the end of a stick. DEMENTED.
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I saw no lacrosse until I went away to college in Colorado (grew up in Hawaii, where there definitely was no lacrosse). It’s a great sport to watch, both mens and womens. I don’t know the rules these days, but back then (late 1970s) the men played with aluminum sticks and in a very specifically delimited field. It could be rough, but was fast and exciting. The womens’ game was almost better because they played with wooden sticks and the field wasn’t quite so strictly defined. If a ball went off beyond the sidelines, it was (sometimes?) still in play. That approach (and the more traditional sticks) always made me think of the original version, played between villages (camps?) of indians, played on large, open areas…..
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Both my kids have unnatural sport abilities and it’s not from me. I was a duck and cover girl during basketball. But I was okay at volleyball which my sport loving husband doesn’t believe is a real sport.
Congrats – and encourage him to enjoy it for all it is.
Ok, I see your point about Jayna’s DNA, but COME ON! Those eyebrows belong to your family ALL THE WAY.
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And there goes your very last unscheduled hour EVER.
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My son is very very happy, quite laid back, and loves an adventure. I’m almost positive there was a mix up at the hospital. Since I’m the mom, aka pregnant woman who got no sleep and ate a lot of pizza while carrying him, I have to assume he has my DNA although it’s quite possible I was inadvertently involved in some sort of genetic engineering experiment gone awry – except in my case for the better since he isn’t cynical, dark and has an irrational fear of all things moving.
When we had our go at the “clinic” we followed the specimen around like psychotic suburban secret service agents.
And looking at our son now, really no chance he’s not genetically related to us.
Which sometimes, I worry for him over.
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