If the crown fits...: softball

The note from the school said that the 4th grade end of year party was from 9:30-11:20 am. Parker called me from his class at 8:35 am to say that the party was starting at 9, and could I hurry? I had just washed my hair. Sure, I'll be there as soon as I can. The phone rings again. It's Tyler. He needs me to bring his text books in. Now, if I could. I'll get there when I get there! I strolled in at 9:40, text books in arm and ready to play. The 4th grade party started late, but I still missed the scavenger hunt. I made it in time for the ice cream sunday conga line:

They went outside to eat it.

And play on the playground.

And hang out.

Then the 4th grade team played a game with the kids. The 4th graders had been polled and the teachers tried to guess the top answers. This is the 4th grade team. Parker's teacher is Ms. Phillips (second from the right) and the others are (l-r) Mr. Nickel, Mrs. Fritchman (Parker's UIL coach, who I love) and Mrs. Crawford on the far right. They are an awesome team, and I am going to miss them next year.

The kids loved the game!

And Mr. Nickel lost and therefore got a pie in the face. What a good sport!

When that party was over, I ran to my favorite store Wal*mart and got cookies for the 6th grade party and batteries for my camera, because Maris took my car to work today and my battery charger was in it.

The 6th graders had some yummy treats and played Family Feud with the teachers.

I also love the 6th grade team. From left to right, they are:

Ms. Pittman (Language Arts), Mrs. Jones (Social Studies), Ms. Patton (Science and Tyler's homeroom teacher) and Ms. Pritchard (Math). All but Ms. Patton are going to the Middle School next year. Ms. Patton is going to 3rd grade, so maybe Aliza will get her. :)

Here is Tyler taking his turn.

Hanging out.

And signing yearbooks.

Before school got out, all got to help tape Ms. Morris, our principle to the window. The kids earned this right by making their AR goal. Tyler was one of the kids who got to tape. So was Parker. Aliza didn't think it was fair that not all kids got tape because all of them helped to earn it.

After school, we headed to Aliza's final dance class. We only have to go to the dance rehearsal on Saturday morning and we are done. The recital is Sunday while we are at church. Darn.

She got a completion certificate. If you dance there for 3 years and up you get a trophy. We will never get a trophy. I think we are done with dance. There are just too many other things that she would rather do.

So then, after dance, if I wasn't already ex-haust-ed, Aliza had her last softball game of the season...

They won 10-0.

Good job Aliza. (2 great hits with 2 RBI's, including the last RBI of the season.)

Let's go home and go to bed.

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3 dentist's appointments, 5 cavities

9 baseball games

1 cancelled baseball game

1 Weblos den meeting

1 night at Young Men's

1 trip to Dallas to the Temple

1 field trip to Gainesville

1 dance class

1 afternoon making copies for the 2nd grade

1 Rough Riders game

1 missed neighborhood pool meeting

1 missed Bunco night

Tyler was invited by his friend Nicholas to go to the Rough Riders baseball game. His aunt was having a "sweet 16" party at the pool. (The park has an area where you can rent the pool and watch the game from there.) Nicholas got to invite a friend and Tyler was so excited to go. Maris then decided that it may be a good night to take Aliza and Parker also, since we will be gone a lot of the summer and may not make it to another game.

We took these pictures of Tyler at the pool from our seats. It was kinda surreal to watch him be all teenager-y. Hangin' out at the pool, just chillin'.

Cute, huh?

He is so not dating until he is 25.

And here we are, slummin' it in the cheap seats!

During the 7th inning stretch, the announcer guy went to the pool and had the people at the party gather around him and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and it was on the big screen.

Here is a picture of it, but it was before T had jumped out of the pool and gathered around. My camera battery was dying and not recovering very well in between shots, plus it was dark...

Maris, Parker, Aliza and I took off right after the song, it was 10 pm and we were so tired. When we left, Tyler was still playing in the pool...he should relax, he has an 8 am game on Saturday morning...

Speaking of...

...Tyler had games (select) this morning at 8 and 9:45 at Frozen Ropes in McKinney, Parker had games at 9:30 and 11:30 in Gunter, and Aliza had a 1 pm game in Prosper.

Thank goodness for one of my coolest friends here, Paula. Her kids Brady and Mason are on Parker and Tyler's rec teams, so she took Parker and I was able to watch Tyler and Aliza.

Aliza did some catching....

...and got two great hits.

And all with a hurt hand.

On Thursday night, at Tyler's game in Celina, after Liza's game in Pilot Point, the kids were playing on a gate at the ball field that swings open and shut. Aliza fell off of it but her hand got stuck, and it bent her thumb back. After sufficient whining and some ice and a treat, she seemed OK. I promised her we would wrap it when we got home and she was fine. She wore the wrap to school on Friday and got some attention for it. I figured that I would watch her play softball today and see how she was before I took her to have it looked at. I made her put on her glove and suck it up. After the game she was complaining again. Long story short, it was still swollen, and she couldn't move it. I had Paula look at it when we stopped to pick up Parker. (She is a nurse.) She felt like it could be broken, so I took her to CareNow to have it x-rayed.

The dr. looked at it and before the x-rays was pretty convinced that it was broken, because of how bad it was hurting and her inability to move it without pain...she started talking about an orthopedic doctor, blah blah blah....

But the x-rays showed no break. She said it was just a really bad sprain. She put a splint on it and wrapped it up again. Paula is concerned that a lot of doctors who do not see children regularly have a hard time seeing fractures on children. I will watch her and if she is still having problems in a few days, I will take her to get it looked at by a pediatric dr.

Anyway, Aliza cannot play softball for 10 days. By then the season will be all but over!

K, gotta run...I am exhausted!

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