This Goalie means BUSINESS

For Easter this year, our amazing nanny, Shelly, left the kids their very own Easter presents which we set out for them to find when we arrived home from Chatham.  Toby’s was full of the usual Cars 2 accessories: trucks, lego and colouring books, while Mia got her very own homemade Easter bonnet and a pair of dainty little pink gloves.

Both things were an instant hit; Mia immediately gravitated to the colouring books full of paper she could tear apart with her naughty little fingers (and crayons she could eat) while Toby scooped up the gloves and announced that he was a soccer GOALIE. 

Since Easter, we have been amused by even more soccer games, this time with Toby as the goalie, always sporting his new dainty pink “goalie mitts”.  Sometimes, if the game goes into overtime and it is past his bedtime, he goes to bed with the gloves on.  This morning he was wearing them when he came upstairs.  I don’t know if he played a game in his sleep or if they were the first things he thought to put on in the morning, but one thing is certain; when it comes to sports, Toby lets NOTHING get in his way -- not even a little pink frilliness.