The Royal Blog

Our Weekend

B dropped us off in Cincy and went on to Tennessee where he picked up E1 on Friday:

Friday, E2, Z & I hung out at the hotel and went to the water park a couple times.  Z hung out with his teammates at the pool and arcade; when E1 showed up she played too.

Saturday Z had two games (they won!):

Back to the hotel for more water park fun:

Back to the field for game #3, a loss:

Back to the hotel to check out, lunch at Cracker Barrel, and we had to get a picture of this:

(and if you're a Futurama fan, you'll understand why the next few minutes were spent laughing over "I'll get my shovel" "I'm three skulls short of a Mousketeer reunion" and "Now no one can ever say I don't have John Laroquette's spine")

Birthday girl was an unhappy crab apple for huge chunks of the weekend:

Time for game 4, a win!  The boys went 3-1 for the tournament; we were soooo happy!

Then we drove home and had cake for the birthday girl (we'll do presents another night; we - especially me and the bday girl - were wiped out):

Week Five/Twenty Five

• 50 fun-filled minutes on the elliptical!

Did not go to the park afterward. The knee brace, heating pad, motrin, resting it, using it - nothing really seems to make my knee better.  I guess the good news is, it isn't getting worse.

Ordered E2's birthday cake yesterday.  They (Kroger's) don't have MM Clubhouse or Little Einsteins cakes, and they were out of the supplies for the Lego cake, so E2 settled on a Go Diego Go cake.  (She wanted pretty much every cake in the book.)  And then I had to explain about 50 times ("Where's the cake?") that we would be picking the cake up on Sunday.

I did not talk to E1 yesterday; she called after I went to bed. B said she got to go tubing a lot yesterday and she abruptly ended the call because it was time to play "capture the flag".

Today's to-do:

• Pack for trip

Aw crud. Just remembered that today is turn in all your school forms, pay your school fee, pick up your supply boxes, get your school picture taken, find out who your teacher is and sign up for back to school conferences day.  Bleh.  I hate filling out all the forms. HATE.   Nothing has changed since Z started kindergarten. Our address, pediatrician, cell phone #'s, everything is the same. Why do we have to fill out the same crap year after year after year.  Get computerized already people. 

Boo

My knee is still messed up; walking up stairs is particularly painful.  So, no, no workout or laps today.

Z & I are dropping off E2 at her summer program and then heading over to the dealership to get the van looked at. (Z was pretty grumpy about having to log off his Pirates game.)

E1 got to go tubing yesterday and (instead of vault) her group got to do the ropes course.  She hasn't made any new skills but she feels she is has nailed most of her level 5 skills.  I didn't get a whole lot of info out of her.  How was lunch? Good. How was open gym? Good, but I only went to part of it. How was the luau party? Good, but I got blinded. And so on.  She did call (sobbing that she wanted to come home :( )after I went to bed - apparently she and two other girls had a little misunderstanding; B gave her some good advice so I'm sure she's fine. 

Today's Sixth Call

(I asked her a couple of quick questions first.  Then:)

• Me: "So, what's up?"
• E1: "Welllllll, some people told me they'd do stuff with me after practice, but apparently, they decided to go over to open gym instead."
• Me: "So, why don't you go over to open gym and have fun?"
• E1: "Okay!! Bye!"
  

Ya know, it would be easier (and more satisfying) to miss her if SHE'D QUIT CALLING!

Monday Camp Update

• So far today, B & I have received five calls from E1.  She's fine, just into the whole telephone thing.
• Pancakes and bacon for breakfast.
• She and the other girls from her gym all bought matching green striped leos.
• She has two. practices. a. day. Two! (I couldn't tell if she thought that was cool or horrifying)
• The gymnasts come up with a list of skills they want to make or improve on (goal list?).
• She won a dance competition this morning and got a stamp that lets her go over to the canteen and get a free candy bar.
• The line for tubing was too long so she didn't get to go.
• There are a lot of bugs at camp. 

Happy Camper!

Have a great week at Flip Fest sweetie!!