Padre Game With the Whole Family.

If there is one thing almost everyone knows about Todd is that he LOVES baseball. He can watch an entire game and then some if he has some free time (which is pretty rare). Being a baseball fan and living in San Diego he is of course a passionate Padre's fan. So to be able to indulge in this love and not neglect his family he will almost always take one of the girls with him to a game and have a fun daddy daughter night. It really is a win-win because the girls have such a great time with him and he gets to teach them about a game he has played starting in his childhood through college. The girls have enjoyed this time so much that they will now even watch a game on TV with him!!

Todd had one goal this past baseball season and that was to get Preston and the rest of the family to at least one game. So he finally made it happen on the last game of the season here in San Diego. So I will admit I was resisting the family outing to the ball park because I thought it would be allot of work and that Preston was to young. I can now admit I was wrong. Let me say it did helped that Todd got bleacher seats. At PETCO park the bleacher seats are situated behind outfield with a huge sandbox between the bleachers and the outfield fence. The sandbox is off limits to adults by the way! The kids had a great time watching the game, dancing to the music, eating hotdogs and playing in the sand. We did not last the entire game but we did make it to the 7th inning. I'll end by saying that I would definitely do it again. Score one for Todd!

Be Careful What You Wish For...

Only a few weeks into our new Fall 2007 schedule and I have started to complain. I'm constantly in the car due to three kids in two different schools which are 20 minutes away from eachother and have very different drop-off and pickup times. On top of that we have after school activites, soccer, ballet, and music which I'm driving everyone to and from. So I find myself complaining about the driving, not seeing the kids enough and wishing we could just stay home in our PJ's all day. Well Thursday morning my little Bella awoke with a tummy ache and a sore throat which got worse and worse as the morning progressed till I felt I had to take her in to be checked out. To do this I had to pickup Preston from his little preschool class early and put Todd on notice that he might have to pickup Sydney from kindergarden for me. After a quick strep culture it ended up that Bella only had a red throat and probably just a cold virus that is going around. I said "Great! At least she is not throwing up!" We left the Dr. office, I called Todd and told him I would be able to pick up Miss Sydney and we headed to the elementry school. We were just about to the school when I heard a terrible sound coming from the third row of my beautiful shinny, black leathered, tricked out mini van. Yes you guessed it, Bella throwing up all over herself and her car seat. Bella was such a trooper and didn't complain at all that we had to wait 10 minutes till they could bring Sydney to us and we could go home to clean her up.
Well back to being careful for what you wish for. Needles to say Todd left a few hours after above events for a conference in Utah. Those of you who are close to me know that this had to happen with Todd going out of town. So I have been stuck at home with a very sick little girl and my other two VERY healthy children for two and a half day's now. Bella has hardly moved from the couch and has not really thrown up again. She does not want to eat anything and has no energy. Each time she has moved herself from the couch to her or my bed she rests on the floor every few feet. Just so no one worries, I checked in with her doctor again and he said this virus is going around and kids are acting just like that for about 5 days! So I have about 2 1/2 days to go till freedom! So without Todd around to relieve me we are having ALOT of mommy and me time.
I don't think I will be complaining about our schedule again anytime soon.

First Day of Kindergarden

Sydney started Kindergarden on August 27th, which is also Todd's birthday. Sydney was so excited and ready to go by 7am. I on the other hand was very reluctant to go and sad. My sadness started the Saturday previouse when I took her clothes shopping. She figured out that there was an alternative to me bringing things home and she wearing them. I got a glimps of what the future holds for me as the mother of two girls who LOVE sparkly shinny things when Sydney brought me chetta patterned shoes with jewled bows and a pair of $90 dollar 7's jeans she wanted because they had crystals on the pockets! Once we "negotiated" through those choices (she got the shoes) we had a great time shopping and talking about what she thought kindergarden would be like. Having gone to Hanna Fenichal where playing dress-up and doing some amazing art project's each and every day, I felt I had to prepared her that there might not be as much, if any dress-up and the art projects would be a little more simple. She was fine with it as long as she was going to learn to read and walk to school.

The weekend before school I was looking at her baby pictures when I realized that what all those old ladies and strangers who had stopped me while I was struggling with three babies over the past 5 years had said to me was TRUE. It had all gone so fast and I have forgotten so many of the baby moments I thought I would never forget. I can hardly remember her being so small, or her baby laugh. I was so glad I had those pictures though.

Back to the first day of school. Todd, Sydney's Uncle Nate and I walked her to school. We took about a few hundered picuters of her and I took a deep breath and walked her into her classroom. She sat down on the mat with her new class, said goodbye to us and never looked back. It just about broke my heart...