I can ride with no training wheels
June 10, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Last night, my mom had both of my youngest kids over to spend the night. Somehow Sofia maneuvered her way into going. I think it was the “I’m going to your house” in a sweet voice combined with her you can’t say no to me smile. Who can say no to that?
While we were doing the kid exchange in town, Eli kept asking me to go home and get his bike. Uh, no, we live across the county from my parents and I would be 35 minute round trip not including all the chit chat time! I suggested he offered my brother $1 to come to our house and get it. He doesn’t have anything better to do, ha!
After arriving at the house, Eli was bugging my dad and brother to drive to our house and get his bike. My dad, not knowing Eli had never rode a bike without training wheels, suggested Eli ride my youngest brother’s orange bike. My youngest brother (9) gives Eli a little push and he is off! Seriously, it was that easy. He wasn’t even wobbly or anything.
I was told he did have a few close moments but it doesn’t sound like anything we had with our two older children.
I feel a little guilty because Eli had been asking us to take his training wheels off his bike since he turned 5. According to Eli, once you turn 5 you can just magically ride your bike with no training wheels and he was right!
Here’s the video my mom sent me of Eli taking off on his bike (note he is wearing a safety helmet!):
While this was all going on, the two older kids and I decided to make it movie night at our local theater, which is really cheap $2 for kids and $4 for adults. Plus, the concessions is just as reasonable. We watched Night at the Museum 2 and while it was funny and enjoyable and it was a little over the top!
It was odd to be a movie and not have to really chase anyone around. Hannah and Peyton sat in the third row with friends who were also at the movie. I sat completely by myself and was actually able to enjoy the movie. Minus the two times the kids wanted money from me for popcorn & cokes! It was really weird.
It is gone, gone, out of here…
June 3, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Peyty Pie, as I call him, hit his first over the fence home run at last night’s Pee Wee game.
It came at a critical time when we were only up by 2 runs in a close game against a hard hitting team.
We had two runners on base with 2 outs. First pitch, he swung and it was so out of there!
After that beautiful hit, everyone could breathe a sigh of relief in this close game. We want to keep our undefeated season ya know. Cuz, Pee Wee is LIFE.
We couldn’t find his real home run ball so we think it may have fell into the creek but he was given a new ball which one of the coaches scuffed up a bit to make it look like the home run ball.
Now the home run race is on between two of the 8 year olds on our team.
After the game, we celebrated with dinner at the Dairy Queen with no coupons. Our life is consisting of lots of dinners out right now with our hectic schedule!
Blog Friends become REAL Friends
May 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
In the past few months since I began blogging, I’ve had the opportunity to meet my online friends IN REAL LIFE. They are actual people just like me!
I’ve been really behind on blogging as I still need to blog about my Blissdom trip. But first, I want to write about the great local ladies I met last month.
After emailing back and forth for several months and discussing how we needed to meet up, Cherie aka The Queen of Free and I finally set a date and opened it up to anyone who wanted to come. I was going to cry if no one showed up.
So after finally finding Joanna through twitter. I still feel bad that Sarah and I were chatting outside and didn’t even know Joanna was sitting inside waiting for us. We think she walked in with the high school volleyball players and just blended right in. Cherie was running late because of the traffic. She was coming all the way from the Southside.
Sarah and I actually kind of saw each other briefly at the Ridemakerz Event back in December but we didn’t really have the opportunity to talk since we were occupied with our children that day. I found out that it is a very small world as her husband works for a company that we interact with.
While we came together for our love of blogging, I think we chatted about non-blogging stuff just as much. I had a blast and hope I can make it to the next one. We closed down MacAllister’s on that Saturday night! I think they were ready to get rid of us but scared to kick us out since we were armed with laptops!
Baseball Nightmares.
May 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
So will my 8 year old son have nightmares after this past weekend’s baseball game?
He says no.
But when you look up at the game and your child is being chased by the ENTIRE opposing team, you wonder what your child is going to dream about.
It was a game that was really just a comedy of errors. Mostly due to an pimpled faced umpire. I will give it to the ump, he has given us a story we will never forget.
Long after we forget who we played, the outcome of the game, or the date, we will never forget the comedic relief in an tense game.
Here’s the scenario. Peyton, my eight year old son, was on second base. Next batter strikes out. The opposing team all starts to head to the dug out. Peyton heads back to our dug out.
The moms in the stands are trying to figure out how there is 3 outs. Who got out? We are all kind of shaking our heads and looking around. There is only two outs, right?
All of the sudden I look up and I see Peyton racing back out to second base and being chased by the entire opposing team. Really, only one kid could get him out but the whole team was chasing after him.
Lucky for Peyton, he gets his speed from his dad and made it back to second base quickly. Plus, the catcher who was running with the ball tripped. Though, I really doubt they could have outrun a kid who looked like he was running for his life.
Pretty hilarious and it is too bad youtube wasn’t there to film it. Anyone else catch that Michael Scottism?
So that wasn’t even all. There are more unforgettable moments in that game.
It is the top of the 5th inning. The opposing team has a runner on third base. The runner attempts to steal home. Mind you, it is not a passed ball. So our catcher looking perplexed, stands there with the ball to tag the runner and gets plowed over. (Runners are suppose to slide in any situation like that so he is out regardless.)
Still there is more.
The last involved the very last moment of the game. The scene: 2 outs. 2 strikes. Our team down by a mere 4 runs. Umpire calls a strike on our batter as the ball is leaving the pitcher’s hands and quickly exits the field. The ball was in the dirt. Hardly, a strike.
Game over. We lost. But we really improved.
{We faced the same team again the next day. We had an adult umpire, which gave me much confidence in how fair the game would be judged. We won by several runs. Amazing how decent umpiring can change the outcome of a game.}
Wordless Wednesday 4/15 (Spring Edition)
April 15, 2009 by 6 Comments
These are pictures from 2008.
I won’t get to enjoy this tree this year as a bad storm took it out last year. Sadly, we lost three of our Pear Trees last year. Spring is my favorite time for flowers as I love to see my bulbs pop up and trees start flowering.
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