Happenings

Ever had a root canal? I had my first yesterday and hopefully my last! Not a lot of fun but not as bad as I had anticipated either. I don't really know what all he did and quite honestly, I don't want to know. I know there were alot of scary tools involved such as a blow torch like thing, a hot glue gun type thing, and I don't even know what else. I do know I had my mouth open for about an hour and fifteen minutes. Anyway, I'm glad it's over! Another ballgame last night for the Red Wings and their first loss of the season. It was not pretty either. They didn't look like the only undefeated team in the 7-year old league that's for sure. Bad night I guess and I'm sure they will pull it back together for Saturday's game. I hope anyway for their sake. Their coaches were not real happy with them last night! They forget sometime, I think, that they are only 7 years old. Tomorrow Samuel gets to go see Seussical. I can't wait to go this weekend myself. Good luck to all our UCC kids who are participating!

Our Little Baseball Player(s) - Present & Future

Go Redwings!!! We had another game last night and barely pulled out another win leaving the Redwings undefeated. They are having a great time and doing a great job. Samuel is playing first base and John Michael is leading the cheers from the stands. Well, not exactly but he is clapping right along with everyone else. I still need to get some good action shots.

Not Michael Johns!!!!

For those of you keeping up with this season's American Idol were you as shocked as we were at last night's elimination? Our entire family was so upset as Michael Johns was our favorite! I really thought it would come down to either him or David Cook as the winner. I almost cried this morning when I had a chance to actually watch it and see his reaction. I think everyone was shocked and did not agree. I thought it would be Carly this week. I must admit that this is our first time to keep up with American Idol or any reality TV show for that matter. But it has been a fun family thing. We all look forward to it each week. Oh well, who will be next?!?

Read Harry Potter.... Who ME?

A while back I saw somewhere that over 40% of Americans didn't read an entire book cover to cover last year. I couldn't believe it! But, when thinking back (especially to last year, being pregnant and all) I'm not sure that I read a book COVER TO COVER. I always have books that I am reading, usually motivational, spiritual, or self-help types of books, and I read a chapter here and there. And I probably read dozens of children's books with Samuel, but does that count? Anyway, I decided to do much better this year. I started out with "90 Minutes in Heaven" which I enjoyed. This past weekend I spent some time with my sister who teaches third grade and is an avid reader. She and her husband read all the time! She mentioned that she has been reading the Harry Potter books to her class this year and she loves them herself. So we were browsing through books at B&N (which I could spend hours doing) and I came across the Harry Potter series and decided to buy the first book of the series, thinking if nothing else Joseph could read it with Samuel over the summer. I started reading it and haven't been able to put it down! I surprised myself! But if you look at all of the awards the book was given it isn't surprising at all I guess. Anyway, you might be surprised too!

Spring & Baseball

Well, Spring is here and so is baseball! John Michael is learning all about the ballfield and loving watching his big brother, or anyone for that matter, play ball. Samuel is having a great time on the Red Wings. He looks forward to his games each week and informed me this morning that he was supposed to be there today at 4:30 (for a 5:30 game) but he wanted to get there at 4:15 so he could get in some extra batting practice. Okay!! As if it isn't hard enough to be there on time, let alone 15 minutes earlier! I should be proud of his dedication and should support his efforts, right? And what's 15 MORE minutes spent at the ballfield this week! It's not like I have anything to do at home (like laundry)! I will post some pics one of these days when I can actually remember to take the camera to the ballfield!