Astroblog: Eldest one got a goal

Saturday, July 02, 2005

Eldest one got a goal

Eldest one scored a goal today in his under-9's soccer match. This was his first goal ever, so I was a rather proud dad. Everyone is proud when their child does something for the first time, but Eldest one has had a harder time than average, he was born with a club foot. Club foot and born premature, the picture is Eldest one in his humidicrib shortly after birth. He had to have full length leg casts for a long time to try and correct his foot without surgery. Then surgery after all, then a succession of splints and casts.

There are far worse things, ask the parents whose kids are in full hip casts for hip dyplasia. Once waiting in the clinic for yet another round of assessment, feeling sorry for ourselves, we asked the woman next to us what her son was in for. "Leukaemia" she said. You soon get a sense of perspective in a hospital waiting room.

Eldest one scored his goal 3 weeks after the last round of splints came off. So his first goal is rather special.

To keep this slightly astronomical, Eldest ones favorite planet is Saturn. When he was two, I took him out to see a partial eclipse of the Moon. The next night, whathing the Moon rise, he smiled and turned to me. "Daddies Moon", he said.

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 1:13 pm

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We too are very proud of 'eldest one'. We have known his loving parents since a very long time before his birth. They have played an important role in the lives of our 3 kids. One even refused to get married unless Ian & P-M - pregnant with eldest one could be there. We spent New Year's with them in the High Country shortly before the birth of ELDEST ONE. Remember the amazing Maze PM? We live too far apart to see the family often - in fact some of us have yet to meet 'youngest one'. But we keep close in heart. We are the ones who encouraged eldest one to combine vegemite and peanut butter on the one sandwich even though Dad and Mum said it would be unpalatable. Does he still eat that? We saw middle one take his first steps. We kept the sticky handprints on the wall mirror for a long time after the visit. Keep it up eldest one. Fly high

The Walpoles

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