So, yes, we are late in posting again but we have a really, really good excuse this time. We ended up having to take dad to the emergency room late Sunday afternoon. He had not been feeling well all day and he was feeling just like he did when he had emergency surgery for a hernia 20 years ago. So rather than doing our usual "wait until midnight to see if we feel better and then head in" thing, we decided to head in a little earlier this time. After multiple tests, x-rays and CT scans, his old hernia repair is still intact and he was just severely dehydrated. I guess he acclimated to Colorado a little too well and forgot about desert heat. 2 bags of IV fluid later, we headed home. Dad still felt like he had been run over this morning but everything is better now.
Here is the other reason we are not posting on time- mom still has not been able to transfer stuff from her ancient Mac to her state of the art MacBook Air. She even managed to get on with the senior technical advisor at AppleCare and he didn't know what to do. She got to do all kinds of fun computer geek stuff like creating a new network but no go. Now it looks like we are off to the external hard drive to try this again. Sigh.....
The rest of our previous week was pretty cool. Our class did a field trip on Thursday to the Arizona Desert Museum and mom was one of our parent chaperones! So super fun for all of us!
She drove and I got to have my friends Max and Claire in the car with me and then we stuck together through the day. It wasn't even like a real field trip- it was just like a fun day with my friends. And mom. It was a roasty, toasty 95 daygrees that day so we totally earned the ice cream we talked mom into buying for us.
Our class all had lunch together and then we headed out for more fun in the sun.
On Friday after dinner, we headed over to the park to practice some catching and throwing. It was a little bit rough on me as the very first ball I tried to catch bent my fingernail back and made it bleed. After about 5 hours of drama, I finally calmed down and we went back to catching and throwing. We moved on to tossed pop ups when I misjudged and caught one with my nose. This resulted in a bloody nose and more dramatics. It was also the end of our practice session.
I think all those injuries made for a good thing though. We had a game the next day and we actually won! We haven't won a game in I don't know how long so it was pretty cool. Even more cool was the fact that I got an actual real live hit. Off the pitcher and not off my coach! It was awesome because then I scored the winning run! So exciting!
Sunday was pretty quiet (see opening paragraph) but that was OK with me. Mom brought home the first book in the Harry Potter series and I have not put it down. I even passed on MineCraft and Skylanders to read. How crazy is that! Mom is doing a happy dance inside her head right now!
That's about it this week. Going to try and get the computer up and running. We'll let you know how it goes....
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