We spent the last two days at our local soccer complex playing in the Winter Classic, our club's sponsored yearly tournament. The girls had a great time playing, even if we didn't place. We were the youngest team entered into the tournament at U-10 and wound up playing a level up which made it interesting to say the least. The first team we played was made up of girls all over 5 feet, they had an awesome keeper and they played well. We had five great guest players and it was a learning experience for the girls, they now know what to expect next year and all in all I think they had fun being there with so many other teams playing and all of the excitement.
Yes, I let Tay play with a broken finger. Well, we still aren't sure if it's broken. The doc has read the x-ray but a radiologist has not. The swelling has not gone down much and she looks like she has a grape for a knuckle so we're leaning towards broken. The team manager and I spoke prior to the tournament about her finger/hand and the club's view on her injury. As long as it is wrapped she can play. Yeah, it's just a finger but I don't want her hurt worse than she already is. Tim and I came to the ultimate decision that we would splint the finger (middle, of course), tape it to its neighbors, wrap it in either a thin foam liner or bubble wrap* and tape it all with athletic tape.
So basically I wrapped my broken kid with bubble wrap and sent her out on the field to play a contact sport where she promptly body checked a girl a foot taller than she is and knocked her on her ass and got a yellow card, it was a proud parenting moment.
Man, I lost that parent of the year award early this year.
Also, we are looking for a new pediatrician. The girls' doc ripped me a new one on Thursday after she told me Tay couldn't play this weekend and I laughed at her, I may have damaged our relationship beyond repair.
*For the record, the bubble wrap was the managers idea but I have been threatening to wrap one or both of the girls in bubble wrap for years. Basically the metal of the splint had to be covered and foam or bubble wrap was the best option.
