today was our annual primary school sports carnival. oh my gosh. it has been poooooouring down with rain for the last two days - and every time i got a message from the school message system yesterday i expected it to be the final straw and that the carnival was cancelled, but when i picked the kids up, it was still on and all the parents were left wondering if the staff were sane... joseph's teacher even said (only half joking) that i might want to keep my kids home. we had a good laugh over that.
this morning it still looked terrible, rain was looming and i braced myself as i carefully filled my kids hair with red hairspray... we got out of the car and it poured again, we all had to race to class and i decided to take alex home. but then it stopped and even though it was blowing a gale, there was no more rain. so i found a place to stand with some other cool mums and cheered my kids on in their sprints.
this amazing little boy who always seems so uninterested in sport stared straight down the line and took off as soon as they sounded the horn and came in third in his race! he was so pleased with himself and rightly so. what a legend!
here he is! little champ
maddie was devastated, in her past two years of carnivals, she has placed each time in the sprint, but this time tried so hard that she overcorrected, stumbled and lost time against the others. she was so upset not placing, but we could see she had really tried. poor love. i know she hated being reminded, but there is always next year!
joseph also cracked me up when he was the only one in his faction that actually ran when it was time to do their flag race. everyone else was casually strolling from bucket to bucket while we all cracked up on the sidelines.
we had a super fun day and when i came back to the oval at the end of the day, presentations were in full swing... 3 of the champions from year two were from madeline's class, as well as the girl who won the sportsmanship award - annnnnnd giles (red) won the carnival!!!!! the kids were well pleased, as were my other mum friends i'd been with all day - as luck may have it, all our kids were in the same faction! wooooooo. go giles go!
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fun fact: our school factions are named after explorers
giles - red
forrest - green
eyre - blue
gibson - yellow
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