#2

 Saturday morning saw us back on the soccer field, and Mallory had her game on.

Yes, that's her scoring her second goal of the season.

She was pretty proud of herself... if you can't tell from the grin on her face as she runs back to center field. The fact that her coach gave her a high five was the icing on the cake.

Before we'd left the house that morning, I'd made an off-the-cuff comment about going for ice cream if she scored a goal. I hadn't thought we'd have to follow through, but there was no backing out. So before noon on Saturday, the kids had both one of these half-time ice pop treats (the red of which pretty much matches Mallory's face after half an hour of running around in the heat!), AND an ice cream. It was kind of a no-rules weekend like that. Because Saturday night, we made good on the promise to take the kids to see Madagascar 3, and of course that meant popcorn, too.