Our weekend was nice. We figured we better enjoy it because before we know it, baseball season will be in full swing and our Saturday’s will be spent at the ball field. I went down Saturday morning and signed both boys up for baseball. Owen will play in the same league he did last year with 3 and 4 year olds. Riley will move up to the 7/8 year old league since he’ll turn 7 in May and that is their cut-off. I hesitated about moving him up but then realized that since most of his fellow first graders will be moving up, that is where he should be. With a May birthday he is a few months younger than most of his friends but I think he’ll want to stay with them in baseball. The biggest change with this league is kid’s pitch. I think the kids throw 3 pitches and if they throw a strike then the coaches throw 3 pitches too….something like that. It’ll be interesting. Lance plans to start coaching Riley at home on his pitching since that is what he really wants to try. I wouldn’t be surprised though if it’s the 8 year olds that get that opportunity. Not the young-starting-the-season-as-a-6-year-old-but-almost-7-year-old on the team. We’ll see.
Friday we ate dinner at my Mom and Dad’s. Chili and hotdogs. It was good. No occasion. Mom and Dad are about to head out for a 2-week camping trip and wanted to see everyone before they left. I guess there’ll be more of these to come! They deserve it! My boys invited themselves to spend the night and of course Nanny and PawPaw said yes. Lance and I went home kid-free. Saturday morning I cleaned house – bathrooms, kitchen floor and hardwood floors. All were long overdue! Although not fun, it was so nice to be able to do it without any interruptions, no one running across my clean, wet floor and without the guilty conscience I always suffer for doing things like that rather than taking my kids to a park or doing something fun. I knew they were having a ball at Nanny and PawPaw’s. After I finally picked up the boys around 4pm or so, we stopped by Sam’s on the way home and picked up some steaks for dinner. We grilled out and watched The Game Plan on dvd for a family movie night. Cute movie. Riley had been dying to see it since it was in the theatre but we never made it. It’s a football movie and that is all he needed to know to make it a must-see in his book.
Sunday after church, we hung out at home. Lance did some yard work. Later Riley and I went to the school parking lot for a bike ride while Lance stayed home with a sleeping Owen. We finished the day with hamburgers on the grill and American Gladiator on t.v. Riley and Owen’s new favorite t.v. show. They have their own challenges during commercials taking turns being the competitor and the gladiator. I would never watch it if not for them, but it’s so much fun to watch with them. A new episode tonight, yeah!
Owen is running a fever today and coughing too. I pray it is short-lived and he doesn’t share with his brother, or anyone else. He’s moping around and not really acting like himself. This might explain the rare nap yesterday afternoon too. My poor O. Maybe Gladiator will cheer him up!
After I got home from work (and after some Motrin was at work in Owen), the boys were ready to head outside. Riley's latest obsession - his bike. He loves to ride it down our driveway and see how far he makes it into the pasture before he stops. He also learned the art of making donuts in the gravel. Even after a few crashes and some scraped up hands, he kept doing them. Dare devil! My little-not-so-dare-devilish-Owen also decided today that he was ready to try his bike. That's right, the one that he got for Christmas 2006 (thanks PawPaw and Nana!) and has never even wanted to sit on before (even with training wheels). Today he hopped on and was peddling himself all over the garage. No dare-devil stunts for him, but it was a very big deal that he decided to give it a try. I bet before the end of the summer, his training wheels will be gone too. Once on it, he was hooked and so proud of himself. He was begging me to take him to the park to ride but I told him we'd have to wait till another night. We'll have to go one day this week for sure.
5 minutes till American Gladiator. The boys are in their bean-bag chairs anxiously waiting. I better go join them.
Until next time….
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Way to go, Owen, riding your bike!!! Now, he just has to convince his cousin to join him! Jake's had his, with training wheels, since June, and has no interest at all!
Sorry to hear Owen's not feeling well. Must be going around. Both my boys are coughing with runny noses, but no fever yet.
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