Been a Busy Week!

Had great intentions of updating before now....but I'm really needing to figure out posting pictures!

Monday......Back to school! Kids were tired...mom was tired....and even the ole dad was tired! But we survived AND both kids had ball practice.

Tuesday......NOTHING! No games and no practice, just some homework.

Wednesday......NOTHING! Again, no games nor practice. This time we just worked in the yard and did a little ball practice in the yard. Great weather. Kiley and I went for a quick trip around the block.

Thursday........2 games! Kiley PLAYED second (notice the heavy PLAYED....that is what she mostly did at second.......no plays were made there, but she had some great circles drawn in the dirt). She got 1 hit driving the 4th run of the inning in which is all they allow per inning. I think we were scoreless the first 2 innings, then we started getting our 4 then 4 more. We may have scored another time or two, but ended up losing. Rich...I missed most of his game and we were down when I showed up. Then Ronnie got a HR and a few more runs were scored. Then when our boys took the field, they made some really NOT METS/MUSTANG type plays that literally cost them the game. Ended up losing 5-4, I believe. Either way UGLY! We were staying for the next game, but Rich had homework to finish (subtracting fractions by borrowing from the whole number......I basically had to teach him from home as he didn't get it at school. It takes so long to get the answer, he forgets some major steps like bring down and calculating the whole numbers ~ you know, the easy part!) plus there was some pretty major lightening cancelling the Astros/Cardinals game.

Kiley hasn't had her stick pulled yet this week and has even earned some stars. I have no idea what the stars mean, but this is the first I've heard about them. Should she go all day today (which is a long stretch for her, but she has done well all week!) with leaving her stick in the holder, she'll get a treat. Not sure what it will be, but I've told her it will be something. We have tickets to take the kids to the Sock Hop tonight at school. (Fundraiser of some sort...of course!) Kiley is looking forward to it as she WAS going on a double date (more on that in a minute) and Rich for some reason now WANTS to go. I had already bought him a ticket in case he changed his mind. He was all for going when he thought it was a 5th grade 'dance' and not a school wide family event. Then he wanted nothing to do with it. Now if it is a bust and people see him there, he can say his parents made him come since they were taking his little 1st grade sister!

KILEY SAYS....
OK, on to Kiley's double date. One day this week when I picked her up she was all excited because she had a date for the dance. I was EXTREMELY shocked to say the least! I asked WHO was taking her to the dance. She told me Nicky / Picky was. This is a boy that she calls Picky because he pics at and on her all the time. I reminded her she had just asked the teacher to be moved AWAY from Picky recently. She said, she knows, but now she likes him and he wants to go to the dance with her. So I go along with it. I asked her if he was picking her up and do we even need to go along. She said we HAD to come because parents HAVE to bring their kids and stay. But as soon as we got in the building she would go find Nicky and Hannah. I asked HANNAH? She said that she was going on a DOUBLE DATE. Who knew she knew what a double date was???? She assured me I would love Hannah, she is a nice girl, really smart, blah blah blah. I'm still floored by the double date situation. So, I said who are YOU double dating with. She said (ARE YOU READY FOR THIS....) "Oh, I'm not double dating. Nicky is double dating. He is taking Hannah AND me!" Whew! THAT kind of double dating. I didn't think it was the right time to explain 'two-timing', we'll just leave it at double dating for now.
But it gets better....
Thursday when I picked her up she let me know the double date was off. So, I'm thinking NOW WHAT? I asked her why. Her reply, "Oh, Nicky SO dumped Hannah today. I don't know why, but she is so dumped!". I told her she (Kiley) must be so sad because Hannah is a great girl, blah blah blah and they're friends and she is probably crushed Nicky would DUMP her right before the Sock Hop. Kiley said it was no big deal because she is still going with Nicky!

Should be fun tonight at the Sock Hop! I'll report back with updates after the big Hop! With the whole date situation, I'm sure Daddy is looking forward to it, too!