mathlete?

My son is many things, smart, belovedly goofy, kind, curious, very sensitive but athletic, no. Last month his grade and two above him went to Romp n’ Roll, apparently a roller skating rink that’s been a fixture of the Pittsburgh suburbs for ages. Owen spent the majority of his time at Romp n’ Roll skating on the carpet. He didn’t actually skate in the roller rink the whole time he was there. And he mentioned having to hang onto railings for most of his time there. But he had fun. He was especially thrilled that I gave him $10, he had mentioned wanting to buy a plastic sword, apparently those were all the rage at Romp n’ Roll last year when he was a second grader watching the cool older kids go there while he had to go to the Science center. This year the thing to have was the glasses you see him wearing. It was a set that also included a quasi bite guard mouth piece which also blinks in those different colors (I took many photos but couldn’t capture the mouth blinking bling on digital, you’ll just have to trust me on this one it’s in there.) Mmmm, a battery encased in plastic sitting in my child’s mouth. What do you think the chances are of a recall on that type of toy? Possible choking hazard? And they were a bargain at $5 so he spent the remaining money on little plastic parachute ninjas. I think he got over twenty of them.

In other adventures of inathleticism, this past week his school has been taking the PSSA tests (don't even get me started on how much attention is put on this test) and in the morning the principal has the classes taking the test run around the front of the school a couple times to get that blood flowing up to the cerebral cortex and invigorate them for test taking. Well Owen fell and did a total face plant the first day. He wound up with an abrasion on his nose, knee and hand. I am still trying to work out the physics behind the nose abrasion but am eternally grateful that he didn’t mess up his teeth at all. Between his falls running and Oona's predilection for head trauma given her being too top heavy it's no wonder I hover as a parent and quickly envision worst case scenarios (the nursing school lectures on head trauma have done nothing to help with this) when I watch them play.