This past week or so the kids have been involved in the Boosterthon Fun Run at their school. It's your basic fun run (pledge per lap) with a few modifications. Braden and Simon really went after it, especially the financial side. They were ready to go door-to-door until I stopped them. Braden tried to get a $25 per lap pledge, but settled for $1 from Poppy.
The boys did run the 35 lap limit. I was pleased that they ran most of the time, except when they paused to play their air guitar or to do their best Nate Robinson impersonation.
The fun run finished up yesterday for us when we combed the neighborhood to get donors to pay up. We'd just collected from our friends Brittany and Allen when the boys--on their bikes--left Lucy and I behind. Not a minute later I can hear Simon's screams bouncing off the houses in our little subdivision. I rounded the corner and he's sprawled in the road holding his knee. Apparently, he tried to ram Braden's back tire only to get tripped up. He skinned his knee up pretty nice and even went to the next house with blood running down his leg. That's one way to collect your pledges, I guess.
