working like a dog...... or three

 running the bases.  She spent a full week with just me and so when Dan took her to get ready to run the bases Kat cried (sobbed for 1/2 hr).  I went down to watch the base running and as she was leaving Dan to queue up, I saw her wiping her eyes.  There is, as you may no, no crying in baseball!  And then as soon as she finished, she picked up where she left off!  Goofball.

If only she could ham it up for me (or a camera) once in a while.....

spider nursery and baseball game

 

Spider nursery?  This was in our garden as I was clearing it out and rototilling it.  There were HUNDREDS of baby spiders!  I left this grass alone.  But they were all gone the next day.  I don't know to where....  I have never seen anything like this before.  I didn't know there were spider nurseries.

 Kat and I went to the Bison's game today.  Kat has her own jersey as a member of Buster's kids.  Today was a fundraiser.  They had bouncy houses, tattoos, craft stuff, lunch, snow cones (it was 91 degrees.....we each had 3 during the course of the day).  And she got to run the bases afterward.  She did great thru the heat and the long (and I have to say very boring game) and the long walk back to our car.  Luckily we found a few of her friends there for her to play with, so she didn't care about the game and had company in the bouncy houses, etc

 This is Ben after 1.5 weeks.....apparently growing his beautiful locks back will take some time....

 I still don't know what kind of critter this is.  But, of course, Kat loved it and hugged it every single time we ran into it.....at least 5 times!

This is what the blue raspberry sno cone does to your tongue.  And that's just one!

This busy weekend......

    I know it looks like Ben had a drunken encounter with a razor wielding felon, but I paid for this haircut!!  I took him to the spa to get him all cleaned up (he's already been panting so much and it's barely been hot so far) and they took poetic license and really, really cleaned him up!  Well, it's a good summer 'do for him and it will grow back.  Eventually.  It's even shorter than his military do back in YYC!  He was tan then, but this cut is even shorter and shows his dark underspots (the malamute in him).  I love how the tail alone retains some original flair...it looks like he was the donkey in a game and the kid stuck it on in the right place!  He rather looks like a formerly abused rescue dog that has just been cleaned up.  Poor dude.  

    When I brought him home, Kat asked, "Is that Ben?"  She didn't even recognize her Benjy. The real question was.....why did that haircut take 5 hours???  Anyway, Boo even recognized his long lost buddy (he spent the day in mourning) and was overjoyed at Ben's return.

 

 Kat took this pic of Grandpa & Grandma. I didn't even think to take any pics today of the walking gang.  Oops.  Love the perspective of this pic.....

Well, we are exhausted.  On top of the munchkin giving up sleeping for lent (her sense of time is a little bit off), we were up and at 'em at 6AM today for the Walk4Hearing in Rochester.  And yesterday was her Tae Kwon Do tournament, followed by her Florida grandparents and the entire family (including the cousins) here last night for a cookout.  Two nights this week, she was up for the day at 3AM (but of course, we didn't realize that and spent hours begging, pleading, bribing and anything else we could think of to get her to go back to sleep).  In the end, at 6 or 7, I gave up and told her to go play downstairs.  And she did. 

We raised 1,000 for the Walk4Hearing, and walked 3.1 miles today along the Erie Canal in Fairport (well, Mom & Dad rode their criket & scooters respectively....and so did Kat).  We brought the wagon, but I was relieved when she hopped on the criket at the very beginning and I didn't have to haul the wagon 3.1 miles.  She got out once in a while and ran around.  But mostly she sat next to Grandpa and said "faster, Grandpa, faster".

Friggin Blogger won't let me upload a new video.....this one is what it did look like.  I wanted to upload the video of what it SHOULD have looked like. 

Kat got 2 medals at the tournament yesterday.  She had practiced her kick/punch combinations, but the actual setting of  the gymnasium, the multitudes of people and the tremendous differences in how things were done compared to how they did it in the studio led to confusion.  And she had to go first, next to another kid, not like they had done it in class.  And there was no one there to hold the target for her, like they had done in class.  So she and the other kid both stood there confused and then she did super-lame punches.  So she got a medal (everyone won something).  And when it was time for flag sparring, they had to wear these foam helmets (never did in class) and the small one, had such poor visibility, I was amazed that she could see anything at all.  So she got another medal......