I just love ping pong!
I learned how to play by watching my mama play with all her friends this past summer.
My mama is really good at ping pong. She’s only lost one game against any of her friends, and that was a really close game against her best friend, Charlotte. But her dad, Corey, always beats her. But that’s ok because she loves to get better by practicing every single day and the day that she beats him will be amazing!
One day, I decided I wanted to try to play, so my mama duck taped a ping pong paddle to my wing. It was really heavy! I started to play with it then suddenly I fell off the table and crashed on to the floor.
So the next thing we tried was to just use my feets. My feets worked well but not good enough because they were too soft! So we figured something out.
With a bit of duck tape, cardboard, socks, and paddle rubber, we made paddle slippers!
The paddle slippers worked perfectly. I just had to kick the ping pong ball and it would go flying! They were just like real ping pong paddles.
After we made those, I was playing Violet and all her friends in ping pong. Since I can fly 104 mph I was hitting the ping pong ball everywhere super speedy fast! I beat every single person… except for Corey, because he always wins!
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