Tiempos dos de los deportes

Well, Charlie survived his day on the diamond. Not only did he survive, he thrived. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but the boy is a chip off the ol' block. One could say, "the acorn did not fall far from the tree". Of course to understand that colloquialism, one must understand that the tree being referenced here would be the young strong sapling that once stood in the spot that is now being occupied by the old, huge, neglected Oak. What.....what was that smarty-pants.........I know...I know.....it's tough to visualize.....but try anyway.

Aidan did really good at this first practice. He hit the ball well, he threw the ball well, and he even caught the ball better than expected. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that he doesn't need plenty of work, but he was comfortable in the enviorment, and seemed at ease with all that was being asked of him. A natural you ask?.....well, let's not cross that bridge yet. Let's at least wait until his second practice before we make that decision. ;-)

It was unfortunate that we had to leave baseball practice early, but Aidan had to get his soccer team pictures taken. We got to go to Pizza Hut Park, which is the home field of FC Dallas, which is the city's professional soccer team. The team got to go down on the field to get their pictures made. They all got a real "kick" out of that. Get it....a real "kick".....oh yeah....soccer humor baby! Here are a few pictures of the monkeys getting their pictures made.




Here is one of Christopher in his stroller. He loved seeing all the kids running around.

After the pictures, we went to the soccer complex down the street, and Aidan had his second game. Again Aidan did fantastic, scoring a goal and preventing two others by running down two separate breakaways. By the end of the game, it was hard to tell what was the darker shade of crimson....Aidan's face, or his jersey. He was whipped, and his parents and his brother were equally as tired. We piled back into the CX-9, and Aidan was visiting dreamland before our 10 minute journey home was even completed. He earned it. As for me and the misses.....we also earned our delicious frozen adult beverage....which we gladly consumed with dinner after we got home.

Speaking of dinner, I cooked burgers and hotdogs, and corn of the cob on the grill last night. It all turned out fantastic, and the Monkeyboy of ours really must have worked up an appetite. He ate two complete Ball Park hotdogs with buns, and a full corn on the cob for dinner last night. He topped that off with desert, and then drifted off into a peaceful well deserved sleep. It was quite a day.

William