It's been said that time heals all wounds. That includes, apparently, the pain of playing goalie while wearing a goalie mask that's way too small. Because six months after a disastrous experience that ended with AJ declaring he never wanted to play goalie again, guess who was excited to put on the big pads.
We carefully loosened all the straps on the mask to minimize the squeezing on AJ's oversized head. He said his ears were a bit squished, but it was okay.
And that lasted about 10 minutes. Long enough for one of the coaches to work with him on stance and holding the stick.
But then AJ couldn't take it anymore. Yes, the helmet was still too tight and was squeezing his ears. Jeff went over and helped the coach to again try and loosen the helmet, but there's really nothing you can do to adjust the width of it, so AJ was stuck. And to his credit, he toughed it out.
There were no tears. But at the same time, AJ wouldn't have minded if someone else had volunteered to be goalie in tomorrow's practice.
No such luck.
A short time after we got home, another coach called to say they found one other helmet that may be a bit bigger. We'll try that tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, how's Sydney doing? She can skate forward quite well. It's the backwards part that needs work.
But she continues to love it. Tonight, she came off the rink excitedly announcing, "Mom, we played sharks and minnows and we caught all of the coaches! All the coaches lost!"
"That's great," I told her. "Did you have fun?"
"Uh huh!" She nodded her head.
"Did all of the coaches have fun?"
"Mom, the coaches always have fun!"
So everyone's having fun. I say that means everybody's a winner.
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