Caileigh's dance recital, Mary Poppins, was at 2:00 at Rowan University.
You can check out her fancy footwork here:
and here...
We then headed over to Masso's for the Pittsgrove Wresting Association's Annual Banquet. It is a wonderful event and everyone does such a great job organizing and honoring the coaches and kids. This is Thomas's 4th year of wrestling and Jackson's 1st. Jackson was psyched to get the small trophy for first year participation and was all smiles and cheering for all of the kids as they got their awards,
until....the special awards for each age group. For the tots, that meant super huge trophies given out to four kids for special accomplishments during the year. All of the wrestlers who earned the awards were very deserving and Jackson clapped for each one, until he realized he was NOT getting one of those super, huge trophies. That is when the drama set in and the tears filled his eyes and the "it's not fair" and "I just want to go home" began!
Thankfully, it was short-lived and after some alone time at the other side of the table he was able to pull himself together. Just in time for Thomas to earn his special award: the Coaches Award! Thomas's Coach gave a speech about how the wrestler who has earned this award is a good leader and can be counted on to work hard at practice and set a good example for his teammates. He went on to describe a wrestler who was sitting and taking notes at different tournaments about all the moves he wanted to learn and questions he wanted to ask - the coach quipped that he at first thought this wrestler must be writing love notes to his girlfriend during tournaments - and then he announced "Thomas Cardona." We were all very proud of Thomas, if not a little hesitant about Jackson's reaction as he had just recovered from the tots awards. We didn't need to worry because Jackson's only concern was, "Thomas has a girlfriend?"
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