Perfect Attendance!

The past couple weeks have been pretty busy for us! Let’s back-track to the weekend of July 9-11th.

My parents went to our hometown that weekend for a wedding and my sister’s bridal shower, so Julianna went with them, and this weekend was just me and the boys. We had two things to accomplish: swim and Astros game.

We went swimming Saturday afternoon, which started off with a little water football.

James wasn’t very impressed by this, and (as usual) slept through most of the fun. Soon he’ll be right in the middle of it all!

I’m not exactly sure how we entered into a game of ring toss, but they were having a blast trying to throw and catch the diving rings on their arms and the noodle.

Jeff and Jayden had a cannonball splash contest. Jeff forbid me to post his pictures, but it’s a safe bet to claim that he was the cannonball champion. (And no, that’s not a fat joke Jeff!)

This school year Jayden had perfect attendance in 1st grade, and the Houston Astros rewarded students in his school district with tickets to a game for their commitment. If you made it through the 3rd 9 weeks you got 2 tickets to your choice of 4 games, and if you made it through the whole year you got 2 tickets to the July 11th game AND got to be in a pre-game parade! For a 7 year old boy, having the lure of these tickets if you made it through the end of the school year was great motivation for getting out of bed at 6 am!

Sunday was the game. The parade was supposed to start at 10:30 and we were supposed to be there by 10:15, so we were parked and walking to Minute Maid Park at about 9:45. Only one person could accompany the kid on the field, and I figured Jeff would enjoy walking around the field and possibly seeing a player more than I, so James and I dropped the boys off in line and went to wait with all the other families to get in. We waited. And sweated. And waited. And sweated. And sweated while we waited some more. At 11 they finally allowed everyone inside, which was their master plan all along! I’ll just say there were some disgruntled parents out there. Perfect little James just snoozed in the Baby Bjorn through (almost) the whole thing.

James and I hustled down to the first level and first row to catch our boys walking through, and sure enough there they were!

Jeff got two pictures on his phone from their walk around the field.

After the parade we had time to kill before the game started, so Jayden played in the Squeeze Play and Family Sunday areas until game time.

In the Family Sunday area, Jayden was jumping in the moonwalk like a typical 7 year old boy which doesn’t really lend itself to picture taking! While we waited, James got to meet Junction Jack, who gave him lots of high-fives and took a picture with him.

We stayed for the entire game and guess what James did…if you said sleep, you’re right! He slept, ate, watched, slept. Have I mentioned he’s just SUCH a great baby?! Well, we stayed the whole game because after the game Jayden got to…

…run the bases!!

We finally left the ball park about 4:15, and we were all ex.haus.ted. It was a long day, but we enjoyed every minute!