A Challenge

Tonight is Ryan’s first tournament game.  This will give us an idea of the other league’s levels.

What can I say about an appointment in which you fail in the first 15 minutes, but you stay there for a total of 2 1/2 HOURS?

Today was Ryan’s milk challenge.  They told us to be ready to stay three hours.  I was thinking that was if you passed!  They were late…Once we started it was already almost 1:30.  They just put a little milk on Ryan’s lips and then we waited.  He did fine with that, so the next test was drinking a very small amount of milk.  After a few minutes I started to see some spots by his mouth.  When the nurse came back at 2:00 he looked at the spots and then talked to the doctor.  They stopped the challenge.  He asked us to wait for the doctor…at 3:15 he finally came in.  He told us to come back for another challenge in a year.  I’m not surprised, but disappointed.  I was so looking forward to sitting down with Ryan and a REAL bowl of ice cream this summer.

Mom, can you take my picture?

 

Believe it or not, this is a picture from another day!  How can I say no when he comes in and asks for me to take his picture? 

Ryan had another practice today to get ready for the tournament.  Apparently, the other leagues are pretty big and competitive.  It’s going to be interesting!  He plays T,W,Th this week.  If they win they play on Sat. too.  I’m not sure at what point you start hoping they don’t win…am I allowed to say that out loud? : )

It’s catching around here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EP SUBMITTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I normally don’t like early morning phone calls.  They’re especially bothersome when one of your kids walks into the bathroom door and starts crying (SOBBING) as soon as you pick it up.  The worst is when you finish explaining what is going on in the background, at least to the best of your knowledge, and the battery dies and cuts the person off, so now you have to go find their number and call them back.  And yet it turned out to be a glorious phone call!  Kimmy’s paperwork has been submitted to the government!!!!!!

A few days ago I blogged that the next group had been submitted in early June.  We were told that got our agency caught up through March.  That was not good.  On Monday we got an email that several more from our agency were submitted to the government and that we were now caught up until mid-June.  As good of news as that was, I didn’t take it well.  We are ‘mid-June’.  That meant that we had just missed this group.  I needed a few days to be able to write something…nice.  Short story long…we were also included.  Hopefully, Kimmy’s EP will be approved early July and then we wait for a travel call.  That should be 2-4 weeks.  I would guess on the long side of that since there are so many this time.  I don’t know a lot about the class B waivers, but I think we might get one and that will add time. 

But we finally made it to the government!  It’s been a long two years since we started this process.  Even though we have a couple more months, it is finally feeling like it’s near.  I better get on that ‘to-do’ list!

End of a season

 Tonight was the last game of the regular season.  It was a fun one.  Ryan got to pitch in the third inning.  He struck out the first guy.  The second guy made it to first, and then he struck out the next two.  The whole team played great.  The other team had beat us twice, so it was fun to win their last match-up.  Closing ceremonies are on Saturday.  Post-season games start next week.  He plays Tues., Wed., and Thurs. nights and Sat. if they win.

 

 

 

Joe Posey

A little Posey action for you!  Sorry about the angle, this field had the longest fence I have ever seen so this is the best I could get.

Like a glove

 Erik came into the house and asked me to take his picture:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The helmet is a little heavy! 

 

 

 

 

Fits like a glove. 

A very, very large glove.

Our agency let three families know that their paperwork went into the government.  That will take a month.  Even though I knew it wouldn’t be us, I still get so disappointed.   At this rate we will miss Kimmy’s second birthday as well.  It’s so wrong I can’t think about it.

It’s been a busy few days.  Ryan had a game on Saturday morning and then we hosted the team’s end of the season party.  Everybody came and they all had a great time together.  It has been a really fun season.  We had another game Sunday afternoon as well.  Our last game is on Thursday, and then we have closing ceremonies on Saturday.  Whew!  After that, no more baseball for a whole…week.