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This was the second soccer practice for the boys, and Kate took them this time. She reported that they were into it and active, which is all we want! However, later in the day, Maceo did ask why we signed him up for soccer inside. "Because it's winter and no one's doing soccer outside," I told him. "Uh-unh," he insisted. "OK, well we aren't doing soccer outside," I said. But we are ready to sign him up for some more soccer once this program is done now that he's shown us he can take part!

After quiet time, the boys and I went to see the University of Maryland Men's Club Hockey team play Penn State Altoona. It was our first time, and the boys first time seeing competitive hockey. They really enjoyed it the first period!

Of course, in the grand tradition of not professional hockey, the rink was essentially outdoors, and we got quite cold by the end of the second period. As well, one of us got quite antsy and had to go jump off benches. (That was Cassius.)

On the ride home, the boys got into quite the conversation. We were playing a word game and Cassius said he had an "s" word. "Are you going to say the "S" word, Cassius?" asked Maceo. I worried about where we were going in this conversation. Maceo started to enumerate the "s words: "Stupid, shut up....shit. Daddy, what's the P"" word?" "I don't know, Maceo, what is it?" I asked, feigning innocence. "It's pussy, like pussy cat!" What's the "F" word?" I stayed quiet now. "Fuck," said Maceo. Cassius chimed in quite meditatively, "Fuck. Fuckin' fuck." 

I told them, "Those words are kind of rude, and we really don't want to use them to try to be mean to people. Does that make sense?" They agreed. 

Fuckin' fuck, we're going to have this discussion several more times, I think.