Better Start Packing?!
Andy's Iceless Hockey team won third place! They won third out of fourth in their division. If my team won third out of fourth, I would feel rather ho-hum about the whole thing. That's because I'm a jaded adult who wouldn't bother to get out of bed for less than second place. But Andy, who has the heart of a champion, cannot be more proud of himself and his team. This is partly because he doesn't understand that the third place is within his given four team division only. And partly because they gave him a trophy! Andy's thrilled to be a winner and to have a trophy. When we got home after the ceremony, he ran the trophy upstairs to his room and immediately dumped it into this big cardboard box he's started keeping on the foot of his mattress. There's a bunch of stuff in that box. His Captain Underpants books. The basket he built at Home Depot. His wallet. His diary. (Entry one is the poetic masterpiece: "Alex is a...