We woke up early for Peyton’s 8 am game. Dave and she left first, while Brandon and I headed over to the gym a few minutes later. Coach wanted them there at 720 am, however when we got there, we weren’t allowed in the gym yet. That prompt a rude awakening from our coach to the gym coordinator, who was headed over. They negotiated 10 minutes of warm up time inside the gym. In the meantime, Dave went over the game plan with the girls in the lobby of the gym. They were playing against Peyton’s former softball teammates, who had decided to play together and NOT with Dave and Ryan. So, we wanted to crush this team! Two of the softball girls (from the league that we left) had never played basketball before, and the girl that was choosing them over us is shorter and slower than Peyton.
Peyton and H play on opposite teams of 5 within the team. So, they were assigned to guard that girl depending on which team was on the floor. The other team only had 8, so C, our friend on the other team, got to play a bit. She was one of their best ball handlers, but she couldn’t get through H and P. H’s mom noticed that C was frustrated as the ball was stolen quite a bit. Peyton was on her game today, mouth guard in, and ready to play. H’s mom gave her a knowing pep talk before the game to which Peyton gave a resounding nod.
They started out strong and never looked back. Peyton was capped after she scored 7 baskets. Then she was relegated to passing. Her current softball coach congratulated her on being a team player, as she had an open shot and passed to her teammate. I don’t know that he knew she had been shut down by the scorer’s table. But at some point, she was crying. Dave had to leave midway through to take Brandon to baseball evals. So at the end, when everyone was congratulating her on the win, she was teary-eyed. Ryan said he didn’t know what was going on, and that Dave didn’t either before he left. I got her in the car, and asked her to tell me what happened. They won 44 to 26, so there was definitely nothing to cry about. She still wouldn’t tell me, so as I was eating a mint, I bribed her with one. She started talking like Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth was around her! She said that there was a whistle blown, and that she stopped, but the other team, namely the point guard, didn’t stop and blew right by her, scoring the basket. She said Dave told her “you are dumb.” Then she started crying again. She made me promise not to tell Dave, but I was a bit upset by this, so I had to tell him, and let her know that I told him. I marched up to him and told him while he was waiting at Brandon’s evals the story. He said he never said that. She was already crying when he talked to her, frustrated that the refs allowed the basket to count when half of her team just stopped in their tracks because they all heard a whistle from the other game. But his story was that he saw that she was crying and said that it was dumb for her to be crying, as again, they were up by so many points.
She got over it, and at least I got it cleared up, with a few more hugs for her. She was fine watching Brandon’s evals until it was time to go to her free jazz class.
She was okay with it since she knew her friend would be there. Actually, two friends. But then another showed up, a fourth grader, and she was totally fine with it. Oh, and I bribed her. On our way to the class, I told her that if she tried hard, and did her best, then I’d get her something special. She asked me what. I asked her what she wanted. We were passing Hobee’s, and she said, “OH, coffee cake from Hobee’s.” “Sure”, I said, “I can make that happen if you do your best.” So, she did! She did great! She did what she was asked, followed the other girls; she wasn’t first, but she was second, right behind her friend, so I know she was motivated. There was one dad that squeezed in between the moms to find his daughter. He pointed to his daughter, and pointed to her to get out there. She shook her head adamantly. That was us 6 years ago, but glad we’re passed that. And that this was a free class, so he wasn’t losing the money that I did for ‘princess ballet’. The hour went by quickly, as we moms were just chatting outside the class. The girls all came out with smiles on their faces. And went to get snacks, also promised on the advertisement for the class.
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They allowed us to take pictures of them, and then we went our separate ways. I headed to Dave, who was now at softball evals, looking at the old league to see if we made the right choice pulling Peyton out. Dave whole-heartedly felt right about the choice, even talking to the league president. We stayed shortly, then headed to get lunch, meeting one of our softball family friends. Their daughter played with Peyton in the fall on the travel team, and will return to the league due to time commitments. The kids all sat together, while the parents all ate together and reviewed the evals. When we were all done, we wrapped up, and headed home.
Peyton finished up her mandala, that she’d been working on in class. She finished piano, and then Brandon left for basketball practice. I had to make good on the hobee’s promise, but after I went to the gym. Peyton was excited to join me. We set up on two treadmills, side by side, and I told her to clip in and do 2 miles. She clipped in, had my ear buds, and listened to the food network. But, she kept fiddling with the ear buds and turned off the treadmill, resetting it, twice. She finally did get her two miles in, which she had to piece together using math. Then, I asked her if she wanted to try the elliptical or the bike. She chose elliptical. I asked her if she wanted to do 10 minutes, and she said, “No, like 20!” So, we went! I had the ear buds this time, as I didn’t want to distract her from the task at hand. She was a little shaky on the pedals, so I told her to hold on to the stationary handles. She chose the moving handles. I was listening to a PBS special on classical music. Gershwin came on, and I wanted her to listen, so I was going to hand her my buds. She got overconfident, took her hand off the handle, and started to lean. She leaned too much, and she went down, slowly, like in slow motion. I quickly grabbed the moving handle where her right hand would have been, luckily, I positioned us right, as I had it in my left hand. I stabilized her so she wasn’t rocking and getting caught between the stairs. She was able to get up, and that was how we completed the 20 minutes. I asked her if she was alright, and if she wanted to go home. She said she was fine, and she wanted to ride the bike. I thought with the bike, she’d only want to ride 10 minutes, but she found suduko! So she said she wanted to ride 20 minutes. She’s like my mini personal trainer, as I would have left after my 2.5 miles!
We stopped by hobee’s, got her two slices of cake (one for her, and one for three of us to share). She got to eat half of it after her shower and will save the other half for tomorrow. She has a softball scrimmage, at 10 am, arrival by 9 am. Then has basketball practice at 12 pm until 130 pm. Brandon has evals at 2 pm for a possible Cooperstown team, and then a game at 330 pm, and at 5 pm, I get to go to dinner with the girls. The day is all laid out already, and I’m tired just thinking of it!
