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All Your Ice Cream Belong To Us

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All Your Ice Cream Belong To Us
Photo-A-Day #1626

Dada had Eva for the day so he took Eva and (Uncle Mike) to Borders, Toys R Us and Dairy Queen. I had coupons and gift cards I needed to use so I wanted to go use them.

At Borders I picked up the book Career Renegade by Johnathan Fields. My Life Coach Kim Ann Curtin suggested this to me and since we are going to get started with sessions soon I figured now was as good a time as any to get started. So I picked up that book and also picked up a watercolor book for Eva. She did some water color painting at the Eric Carle museum and enjoyed it and so she picked out a TinkerBell book with the watercolors attached. It has been so long since I’ve done any watercolors.

We went to Toys R Us because I had a $10 gift card but I needed my Toys R Us credit card so I left the toy there and we continued to Dairy Queen.

I love taking Eva to Dairy Queen because it is fun to watch her eat ice cream. She barely touches it and it gets all over her. She was swapping my ice cream for hers over and over it was funny. Uncle Mike certainly had a laugh or two.

They're all mine!

Later on we went to my Uncle Rich’s place for a cook out. He even had a singer/guitar player there who was singing all the great soft rock hits. He was really good and my Uncle pretty much provided a nice sound for the neighborhood. We had a nice time and came on home.

Oh and this morning at church Eva’s timing was once again spot on. Fr. Gabriel (a priest we like and who Baptized Eva) was consecrating the host and we were kneeling. Suddenly Eva starts saying the prayer that we say for Grace before meals. The kid has great timing. After church we saw that Fr. Dave’s lawn had gotten “Flocked” It was covered in pink flamingos. We took Eva to check them out.

You've Been Flocked

And here is one of those weird but cool connections. Today I also worked on Kim Ann Curtin’s Website/Blog and on her Consulting Page I saw a testimonial from one Mr. Christopher Williams. Christopher is my inspiration behind the Photo-A-Day project. How small a world is that?

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Eva’s 1st Pawsox Game

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Eva's 1st Pawsox Game
Photo-A-Day #1602

Tonight we took Eva to her first Pawtucket Red Sox, PawSox, game. Mu cousin Carissa has been home from California for the week and she asked us if we wanted to go. We went with Carissa, her boyfriend Sam, my cousins Shaun and his wife Morgan and my Uncle Rich. The game started at 7:05pm so yes, we were those parents bringing a 2 year old (essentially, she’s got less than two months to go and I can’t stand that weeks/months stuff), yikes, to a night game. She was so excited on the way to the game too. She kept saying “going to a baseball game” and she was wearing her Aunt Shelby’s pink Red Sox hat, she looked adorable.

I must tell you off the bat that I am no sports fan. If you couldn’t tell by the very small amount of sports talk on this blog but I’m not a fan. I think professional athletes are overpaid crybabies for the majority. There are some guys who love what they do and play for the love of the game, but not many. I do however enjoy the minor league games because these guys are working on making their way up so they hustle, the parks hustle and the fans get a good show for the money. We paid $10 a ticket for box seats and $2.00 to park. We were handed a sheet of baseball cards because it was a promo night and we had a great view of the field. I like that, I like feeling like I got something for my money.

The thing that I really liked about this was that we could take Eva and she could enjoy the show. McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket has a real family feel to it. They have a mascot and there is a picture place where kids can have their pictures taken with the mascot. Games are played up on the big screens and there are many fun things that go on that you won’t see in a major league park. Eva was up on her chair dancing, clapping and yelling. She was having a great time. It was really fun to watch. Despite my not being thrilled overall with sports (it does nothing for me) I did enjoy seeing Eva in her little hat enjoying a hot pretzel and watching the players. She sat with me and I pointed out what everyone on the team did. There was something really special about that. Allison can go and correct my mistakes later as she has years of experience watching baseball games.

We left the game early because it was getting late for Eva. She must have been wired because she didn’t fall asleep in the car. I think she was in that too tired stupor that we all end up in from being up too late.

I’ve posted the photos from the PawSox ballgame.