Catching Up (Again)

I've been waiting until I could get a couple of pictures uploaded to illustrate my point, but I'm not sure when and if that'll happen, so I'll just go ahead and blog. I know you've been wondering where I've been!

Let's go back to two weekends ago. That was the real beginnings of Pillow Daddy.

Meron and Benjamin went with our friends Tiffany and her son Tyson to Heifer Ranch, part of Heifer Project International. It's only about an hour from our home, so they went to look at the animals and everything and left Sarah and I at home.

Now, a couple of months ago, that'd have been pretty problematic. Sarah and I didn't tend to get along with each other as well as possible. But as she's gotten older (getting close to five months now!) she and I have a lot more fun together, so I figured I was up for it.

After Meron and Benjamin left, we hung out until she got a little fussy. Then I ran to the bank and got a drink at the Hastings cafe and went back home.

She fussed some more, so I rocked her until she fell asleep on me. And slept. And slept. Thankfully, I had provided for this eventuality and gotten the last half of the fourth season of Alias ready to watch. I finished it up (and now have to buy the fifth season to see how the cliffhanger was resolved!) and finally got her up.

Benjamin and Meron got back around mid-afternoon after having a great time looking at animals, having a picnic, etc. However, that wound up tiring Benjamin out. I think he started to fuss and I picked him up, and soon he was asleep on me. He slept for a while (long enough for Meron and Sarah to go to Wal-Mart) before finally awaking.

Later that night, Sarah fell asleep on me again. Notice a trend?

It happened again last weekend. Sarah was fussing, so Meron was going to take her for a walk around the neighborhood. However, by time she got the stroller ready, got Benjamin to the bathroom, and did a few other things, Sarah was out on me. Since Benjamin was all ready to go, they took a spin around the block.

Later on, while Sarah's still asleep, Benjamin crawls up on the couch, gets between my legs and falls asleep there. It was a good thing that there was baseball on (it was the last day of the regular season) and I hadn't had too much to drink that day!

Why the kids find me such a good pillow, I'm not sure. But it doesn't bother me much!

Our softball game last week was pretty good. We scored three in the top of the first, they scored two in the bottom. We scored another two in the second, they scored three in the bottom. Then they pushed a couple more runs across and we just couldn't catch up.

I singled my first time with no one on and two out, moved up to second when I should have been thrown out (I went halfway on a fly ball that was dropped, but the outfielder could have thrown me out at second if he'd paid any attention at all) and was forced at third on a grounder.

Second at-bat, I came up with the bases loaded and two outs and hit a fairly hard ball, but right to the shortstop who forced a runner.

My last time up, the bases were loaded again. I again hit a hard grounder, but this one was too much for the fielder to handle and I reached with an RBI, but was left on. I was in the on-deck circle when the game ended.

So now I'm 5-8 (.625) with 3 runs, a sac fly, 2 RBI and an assist. Could be worse, I guess! Another game tonight, so we'll see how that one goes.

Meron and I have gotten into the TV show Heroes. A friend of my brother's let us borrow the DVDs and I will say we're pretty much hooked. If I owned the set, I'd probably let my friend Ken borrow them and see if I could hook him again on something. So far, he's borrowed SimCity for the computer, Firefly and Lost. He's often said it's a good thing I don't deal crack, or he'd be addicted to that as well.

Anyway, we are just past halfway through the first season, having 9 episodes left after we watched one at lunch. It's been very good and I'm anxious to see how the season resolves.

That's most of what is happening here. My friend Richard has given me tickets to the Razorback homecoming game (as he did last year for another game) so I'm debating whether to take Benjamin up to it or not. If they didn't have the "ticket no matter the age" policy, I have my dad go with me and the three of us would watch the game while the girls (Mom, Meron, Sarah) shopped. But that's not going to work now, so I don't know if he'll pay enough attention or want to stay long enough to justify a two hour drive each way.

On the plus side, we finally got him a Hog hat. That picture will be up soon as well and I'll tell that story then.