Baseball: Ryan finished up his last season in coach pitch. We've been lucky enough to have had the same wonderful coach for a few seasons now and Ryan has really grown as a player. His favorite position is catcher. I get such a kick out of seeing him jump up and throw that helmet off.
Football: Sam finished up his first season of football. I know football in the spring is weird, but they have it. Even though it was a winless season for his team, Sam did great. He was the starting center, and by the end of the season he was playing nose guard as well, so he played the entire game. Poor child lost ten pounds with all the practicing (2 hours 4x/week). And Sam did not have 10 ounces to lose, so that was a lot. I still have to pick up his football pictures so I don't have one to post. Although he enjoyed football, he is thinking that he wants to go back to basketball this fall. I think that his heart is really in basketball, but he had kind of a crappy winter season that turned him off for awhile. We'll see, he is still kind of on the fence.
Ryan's nose: As many of you know, Ryan has had a lifelong battle with nosebleeds. They can be quite heavy and last a long time. After a particularly bad run this spring he told me that he wanted to see a doctor to find out if anything could be done. We had seen an ENT when he was three, and I knew that they could cauterize it, but we hadn't wanted to go that route. But now the school freaked out if he got blood on anything, we have closed down the pool and rides at Carowinds with blood. and he was waking up every morning with his hair caked in blood, so I guess he was so over it. So off we went to have the nose cauterized, or as Ryan described it "tortured". I felt so bad when I saw his little hands gripping the seat and his body stiffening. He's been dealing with nosebleeds basically 3 to 4 days a week, and he hasn't had one in over a month so he says it was so worth it. I have picture of Ryan with the anesthetic stuffed up his nose, but he has absolutely forbidden me from posting it.
Sam and Ryan both had their awards day at the end of the school year. They both got awards. Ryan got a Citizenship award (despite what his father says, not everyone gets this) and Sam got several, including Honor Roll (they don't have this in Ry's grade), math and reading awards, and get this, Writing Superstar. Not sure how he pulled that one out of his butt, but my assumption is that this should be my award since I "proofread/edit" all of his papers. We'll just keep that to ourselves, though. Look how thrilled they both look:
A couple of weeks ago Ryan and I had the perfect Mother Son bonding outing - We went to WWE Monday Night Raw. That's right, folks, Wrestling. We had great seats and all of Ryan's favorite guys were there, so he had a great time. I'll just say, WWE is what it is, and you just need to go with it. I did find it kind of cool to see a live prime time TV show being made.
So now we are just hanging out, swimming, going to Carowinds and hanging with friends. We are also looking forward to our upcoming family beach trip in July and our trip to NYC to see the Yankees in August. We'll update on those events as they happen. See ya soon!
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