Christmas, 2015

This year, Christmas has been pretty much dumbed down by all of the back to back sickness this whole December! First, Caleryn got sick from our cousins, then dad caught it then spread it to me and mom. Then because I got sick, I started having baclofen pump problems which causes a lot of complications and I have to go in and get a pump bump-up. As soon as we all started getting better, then Caleryn catches hand, foot and mouth disease from her pre-school. Which l got now! Anyway on Christmas Eve, my mom wanted to go ahead and unwrap the presents then but, my dad dissagreed. Of course it didn't really matter if he dissagreed because this Christmas my mom was the HoH (Head of Household) of the house. The items l got for this year is a Playstation 4, a humongous Playstation 3/Playstation 4 remote that works mainly on fighting games, two drum pedals and an iPad holder for the bed although, it was not really sturdy enough so my dad took it back to Fry's. Me and my dad also looked for some games there but there wasn't a big portion of games there. So we went Game Stop and bought four or five games. Also, l got a huge donation from Nana and Papa too. Anyway, all in all this Christmas has been okay even though we were all sick all December, which sucked. 

Our annual "Christmas Story" play

The Christmas Story play was good. The only thing that I didn't like about it was all the singing, but Caleryn loved the singing and dancing. It was pretty true to the movie which was cool. There was this really nice lady who helped us get to our seats and she started talking to me a lot because she has trouble writing with her hands and even talking sometimes. She even told me and my mom all about this Botox she gets put into her neck to help her communicate better. Now I've had Botox in my legs when I was little but we had never heard of Botox in vocal chords. I wonder if it would help me out?  Anyway she was super nice and she made our evening quite enjoyable! So Kay Mathews if you read this, this is my shout out to you...Hi! We then drove to a neighborhood known for their Christmas light displays and saw that, so we had a fun night!

My homeschool tutor Lindsey

For the past three years Lindsey has been my tutor and this Christmas she got tired of working and quit! Just joking, she's almost done with college but she has one semester left to cram a bunch of classes in before she graduates. I bet Boots will miss her because she would always feed Boots as soon as she got to our house, if my mom didn't feed him yet. I think I will miss her too, sometimes she would push me to study more. She would make me go outside more even though there's not much for me to do when Caleryn would go to the park. She would sometimes go on a field trip with me. Before she left on her trip to Dubai, my mom realized that we had never taken a picture of her so here is our one and only picture of Lindsey. Happy Trails!!!

GoFundMe/on the news

I started a GoFundMe account so I can start the process in getting a Strike Force Power Chair. I have been playing power soccer for a year and a half now and l'm starting to really like it but my power chair now is slow, especially when I try to do a spin kick. This is why I want the chair, it has more power when the ball is hit because its so low to the ground and its faster too. I am also trying to get a sport grant to help with partial pay but I won't know if it was accepted until April. This chair is a lot of money at $8500! It will allow me to actually compete against the other teams. Our team is starting to get recognized around town in fact, our whole team was on the news a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I made two goals that day and neither one of them made the news which kinda sucked. My dad is in the background trying to hog the spotlight, of course!

http://abc13.com/society/indoor-wheelchair-soccer-games-held-in-houston-area/1104407/

Homeschool Field Trip #7

Yesterday, Lindsey (my homeschool tutor) took me to a Civil War Weekend reenactment at Liendo Plantation near Navasoto, Tx. When we got there we scouted the place a bit but after a while, Lindsey got tired of pushing me in my manual wheelchair and sat by some girls. They were talking about how some women dressed up like men so that they would get called to the battlefield but if they did get caught, men would kill them. Anyway at two o clock, the civil war started! Their wasn't any ammunition used in the battle but their was still gunpowder. The soldiers still had to be careful not to aim and shoot directly at an another soldier because the gunpowder might rocket out into someone's face. I don't know how many times I startled during the battle but it was loud, especially the cannons. It was cool to see all the air rings sometimes when the guns and cannons shot. Honestly, I don't know who won in that battle because I was confused about who was who. There was a huge plantation mansion and back in the day, they had over 300 slaves. I didn't get to go in because of my wheelchair but I know it was also one of the earliest cotton plantations. I did learn that there was a lot of yellow fever going around at that time and it was really cool to see everyone dressed like they would in that time period. The silverware they used was shaped completely different. I kinda liked this old gun they had in the souvenir shop but I guess I'm too old to play with that kinda stuff now so I didn't get it. Overall, I enjoyed the battle!

Two Day Power Soccer Clinic

Recently we had a two day clinic with a professional power soccer coach and his son who is a power soccer player from Indiana. The coach had all of us doing lots of new drills and taught us how to pass the ball more often, how to get into new positions and formations and showed us some spin kick tricks.  He kept reminding us not to be two on one (which causes a lot of penalties) and to keep the v formation. The second day was spent putting all the drills into action. I learned so much and I think it helped me ALOT! In fact, since the clinic I have already scored 4 goals.

Metal and Muscle

Last week was the all day Metal and Muscle Expo and our team played against the San Antonio strap team. This year, it was much easier to get a point against team 1 of San Antonio which is also an easier team to beat then team 2. The first game my coach was relying on me to do well so l got aggressive  but, sometimes a little too aggressive  because I got two penalties. The final score in that game was 3:3 (a tie) and we had over time too but it was only for three minutes instead of twenty minutes. The second game was challenging because we played against the harder team (team 2). They dominated our team. The score was like 1:6 and I think that's much better than last year. The last game we played against Team 1 again and this time our team won! The score was 3:2 and the cool thing is that I scored two back to back goals in that game. The main problem that was going on in all three games is that my chair is too slow. Especially when I get a break away and l can't catch up to the ball! What l want is a real power soccer power chair, like San Antonio has. You have to have a huge grant to get it, I think they are close to $9,000. Our team has only one player that has an official power soccer chair and their team has 4 or so and then they also have power chairs for adults which are faster as well. So we really don't have much of a chance against them when it comes to speed. 

Happy Halloween

This year I dressed up like a person who had a car accident and is in horrible shape. My mom purchased some fake tattoos and blood at the Halloween store for my face. My dad on the other hand,  wanted to put the casts from the tendon lengthening surgery on me. When it was all done, I looked like a broke down person. Caleryn dressed up as Cinderella and I have to admit that she was pretty cute with the costume on. The only problem about trick or treating with my dad is that he isn't really a fan of Halloween and doesn't go very far. Which is pretty astonishing for a candy hogg. What we should've done this year is dress up Boots as, "Dog the Bounty Hunter" now that would be hilarious! Maybe we'll do that next year.