Sort outs

This past weekend's sort outs were so-so. Lucas really half-assed it on a couple of the drills. For instance, the first one involved skating as fast as you could to a cone, stopping quickly, and then skating backwards to the start point. When Lucas got to the cone, he elected to fall down to stop even though he is perfectly capable of stopping normally. On other drills, instead of skating with a purpose, he just glided along. As I've said before, I don't really care what level of team he ends up on. What I do care about is him trying his best, and he definitely didn't on Saturday.

By the way, I was corrected by Tracey (and later Marilu) regarding how long sort outs are. They go on for 3 weeks, not 2. So yeah, that's kind of insane, given that they are 7-year-olds. I'm not quite sure why hockey has to be so friggin' complicated, considering no other recreational sport I can think of even does sort outs, let alone 3 weeks of them, but I guess they have their reasons. At least this weekend's sort out involves a scrimmage. Plus, it's at 12:15, which is much better than this past Saturday, which required waking up at 5:50 AM.

And now for something completely different...

Back in June, we bought a new couch from IKEA for our basement. IKEA being IKEA, we obviously had to put it together ourselves so we brought it home in 4 large boxes. I'm sure you've all heard about how kids enjoy playing with boxes more than they like the stuff that comes in the boxes? Well, as you'll see in the next few pictures, Lucas proved that beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Yep, he's definitely half-American. :)