Zoë, you have been the light of my life since the moment I learned of your existence. Everyday with you is a blessing that I will always thank God for. I love you!
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july.26 - epic failure
Sweet Zoë Jaymes - I completely failed at recording your last year of 5th grade and I’m so sorry. The more time that passed, the easier it was not to do it. But that is not an excuse and should be a lesson to do it anyway. Same with going to the gym. I need to do that too.
But - I digress. I’ll do my best to recap the most memorable moments of your 5th grade year and I will promise to try to do a better job keeping up.
Ironically, a day or two after my last post, you broke your foot. Soccer seasons had just ended. It was days before GG came to visit for Thanksgiving. You were at after school care and when I came to pick you up, you were hopping around saying you couldn’t use your foot. In 100% honesty, I didn’t think much of it. You seemed okay and whenever you’ve hurt yourself before it was a dramatic exclamation of not being able to use whatever was injured and a good 10 minutes or less of icing would cure the problem.
I gave you a piggy back ride to the car and your hopped up each step to our apartment. This injury took more than a 10 minute icing, but I felt confident that a good night sleep would solve the problem. When you came crawling into my room the next morning, saying you still couldn’t put any weight on it, I knew we potentially had a problem. We went to urgent care first thing and even they couldn’t definitively decide if you had a break or not. You were wrapped up with an ace bandage, given a quick tutorial on crutches and off to school and work we went. A follow up at the orthopedist confirmed our worst case scenario. You were broken. Luckily, you were given a walking boot. That made life much easier on both of us, but a little more difficult in the recovery. The first follow up x-rays showed more of a break than the initial x-rays. After what felt like forever, you missed the majority of your first basketball season and your first futsal season. But as soon as you passed physical therapy, you made it for the tail end of both sports.
This year was also your first year of club soccer. That also was such a learning experience for both of us. I loved it, overall. You did a lot more learning and growing. This year you moved up to the top town team and a new club team and both of those situations really took a shot to your confidence. Fall was a tough season. After the Columbus Day Tournament with the town team, you really found your groove, but club took a little longer. I actually thought it was going to be hard for you to return after your broken foot, but instead you excelled. Futsal didn’t always have a great turn out, so when you were able to play, you had to play most if not all of the game. You also had a few tournaments in March that also allowed you to get a lot more playing time than you were used to and you were able to find your groove and show your team what an asset you were. That did wonders for your confidence, which only made you a better player. You did amazing on both teams in the spring.
You also tried track for the first time in the spring. Now that I’m looking back, you had so many firsts and lasts this last year. I’m so proud that you are so brave and adventurous you are!
You LOVED track! After each event you would get a ribbon of what place you got in each heat. You didn’t always get first, but you did not care. You were so proud after each one and you got better and better each time. The Waltham Track Club focuses on doing your best and beating your own records and you were at the top of your age group in personal records. You actually received the highest award in each possible category. I was so proud of you, but even more excited at how much you loved it. We will definitely be doing track again.
This year we did Christmas differently. And while we were okay, you definitely figured out, you don’t like us to be alone on Christmas. We did go to Seattle in February and you got to meet your newest cousin, Cameron Jude. He’s so sweet and we got lots quality family time while we were there.
We haven’t been to California since last May, but we will go back for Christmas, since you don’t want to be here alone.
We did however, just go to Chicago to see GG. That trip was amazing.
Unfortunately, the Boston Breakers no longer exist. The team folded before the season started and all of the players were redistributed to other team. Rosie ended up in Chicago, which was great for us, since GG lives there now. We scheduled the trip around when the Chicago Red Stars would be playing there and it worked out perfectly that they were playing the Seattle Reign, since your favorite player - Megan Rapinoe - plays for Seattle. I emailed Rosie to let her know we were coming to see her play and she so graciously gave us tickets to the game. While we were watching them warm up, we noticed Rosie waving in our direction. At first we thought she was waving to us, but she was waving behind us. When I looked back, I realized it was her brother. As he sat two rows behind us, after a brief debate between me, you and GG, we decided I would be the one to start the conversation. I asked him if Rosie was going to start and I introduced you. As soon as he realized who we were, he treated you like a rockstar. He gave us hugs and asked if he and his girlfriend could sit with us. They treated you like they were there to see you. It was so awesome to spend the game with them watching Rosie. He’d call out to her, so she could see you. He was the most supportive brother cheering her on. You shared Dippin Dots with him and his girlfriend Olivia. And then when the game was over and you lined up with all of the other kids to get autographs, Rosie spotted you and gave you the biggest hug and talked to you and then she went to see Billy and he called you back over to them and you took pictures with them. It was such an epic night. We are so lucky to know them.
You are such a lucky girl.
This is too much for one post. Until next time my love... xo, mommy
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november.15-parent teacher conference
Sweet Zoë Jaymes - it’s shameful how long I’ve let it go since writing. The good news is, we’ve been living a full life. The bad news is, it’s all good stuff and I wish I were doing a better job at documenting it.
Fall Soccer has come and gone. We have a very short break before things start rolling again.
You have started 5th grade. You were so nervous the first day of school. I think it was a lot. You dyed the bottom of your hair blue and purple. I don’t know if there are pictures here of it. If not, I’ll make sure I add some. But I think you were nervous, not sure how your friends would react to your hair. You were unsure you were ready to rule the school. Your growing is going too fast for not only me, but I think you too. I love that you want to stay young. I want you to stay young too. And of course you are, but we can’t stop time and we both need to enjoy and fully soak in every moment because you can’t get them back. I think we are doing a good job of that, but we have also been so busy, the days just seem to fly by.
Our Tuesdays, Thursdays, sometimes Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays have been filled with soccer. Which we love. So that left mostly just Mondays and Wednesdays to relax or do other things, which we did. We are not wasting our days, that’s for sure.
Moving up to a new team in Waltham and starting with the club team, has been an experience for sure. I think you had some confidence issues, but you’ve overcome them even better than I expected. Tournaments are where you really shine. I think the more soccer you play, the better you are. You just get in a rhythm and you find your groove. The season started with a GPS tournament and you scored a goal which was such a great way to get started on the team. Both teams kind of experimented with where to put you and I think you’ve been all over the place with how you feel about it. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the season, on both teams, you had a few goals that didn’t count because you were called off sides, and I think that made you a little gun shy to get up there and take your shots. As the seasons progressed, and especially towards the end of the season, I think you are starting to get past that. Midway through the season, your wonderful Waltham coaches Jen and Andi, put you guys in a Columbus Day tournament. It worked out perfectly because GPS happened to be off that weekend. You guys blew away the entire tournament. You won all of the games in your bracket and went on to win both of you playoff games too. Again, you scored a goal in your 3rd game. It was such a great bonding experience for the whole team to play in the tournament and we had a few meals together. But it’s really where you broke past your confidence issues on the town team. Our old Zoë was back. Kicking butt on the field.
GPS, was a little different. I think it’s a higher level of play and maybe there is more pressure. You are playing a little timid on your GPS team. The last couple of games though, I really saw a difference. Luckily, we don’t have too much time off because I think you are getting on a roll and I don’t want you to lose that. The team is so great. Both of your teams are so great with great girls who all get along. I feel very blessed for that and I hope you do too.
In addition to the great training you’ve been getting from your wonderful coaches, you also were so blessed to be able to do a few one on one trainings with Rosie White of the Boston Breakers. I still can’t believe you had such an opportunity. Not only does she play for the Boston Breakers, but she also plays for New Zealand’s National Team. She has been so great with you and I loved to see you practicing the things she taught you at home and on the field. And on your last training with her, she even gave you her training kit from the Breakers and her official socks from the New Zealand Ferns. You wore all of it at your next town practice.
In addition to soccer, it’s hard to imagine we’ve had time for anything else, but you’ve totally been rocking 5th grade. And we try to fit in a little socialization outside of soccer, but that’s been hard.
You guys have been reading some really excellent books in 5th grade and you are so engaged in learning and again you have such an amazing teacher, Mrs. Bruosta. You will come home and tell me about the books you are reading and they are so touching and emotional that Mrs. Bruosta has been so kind to lend me a book as well. I’ve read them along with your class, well maybe a little behind, and they are so good. They have such good messages and really connect you to empathy and kindness. I’m so glad that you are getting this content at school and that I get to read along with you.
We read Esperanza Rising, Out of My Mind and now we are reading Wonder, before the movie comes out this weekend.
I also had my parent teacher conference with Mrs. Bruosta yesterday and as per every year, it was so moving to me to hear what a joy you are. Of course I know you are. Everyone who knows you loves you. But to hear what an example you are to your peers, melts my heart. Several of your teachers have told me how inclusive you are (which makes me explode with pride). You are a natural born leader and Mrs. Bruosta wants to recommend you to be a peer leader with Mrs. Delahunt, who is the school counselor. That’s just so awesome, Zoë. You are doing well at school. You are inquisitive and a quick learner. You ask questions when you need to and comprehend what is given to you. You help out other kids who aren’t getting it so fast. And to hear from both your soccer coaches and your teachers that you are a hard worker is the best! Because I don’t expect you to excel at everything, but I do expect you to do your best and to hear you are a hard worker even though things come quite easily to you makes me very proud too. I just can’t tell you how proud I am of you and the person you are and the person you are becoming. I feel beyond lucky and blessed to have you in my life and as my daughter. You are incredible!!!
I’m sure there are a million other things I’m leaving out, but each day is such a gift with you and we are out there living our best life.
GG is coming to visit for Thanksgiving and we will be going to your friend Alex’s house again for the holiday, so that should be fun with GG. GG is always a blast, so I’m excited for our adventures to come.
After GG leaves, we go right in to more soccer training and you will be starting Basketball for the first time.
Exciting stuff!
xoxo-mommy
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