After camp my friend Melinda and I had tickets to bring the kids to the Riversharks game. Weather forecast was very iffy, but ultimately we decided to take our chances. We invited Tyler's friend Alex since we had an extra ticket, as he had never been to a baseball game. We drove to Melinda's house, picked her and Scarlett up, and head over to the stadium. By the time we got there it was raining lightly, but the kids got to play in the play area for awhile. It started raining more so we got in life for our free meals (Kids Eat Free night). We watched the rain get heavier and heavier and they decided on a rain delay. We let the kids splash around in puddles and go on the carousel before calling it quits and heading home. Poor Alex never saw a bit of baseball on his first baseball game! Luckily they eventually cancelled the game and we'll be able to use our ticket stubs for a future game.
On Tuesday my parents brought my grandparents to the hospital for my grandfather's surgery. The surgeon ultimately decided that the procedure was too risky and he was released. They will later do the operation via two separate procedures.
Wednesday brought us to the lake for a little playtime.
That afternoon Tyler had hopefully his last every counseling appointment. He "graduated". LOL.
On Thursday Tyler came home from his last day of camp with an award. The counselors make up a little award for each camper. Tyler's award was "cutest". LOL.
That afternoon Connor came over for a playdate for a while before the boys and myself met the family over at Jim's new house for some pizza and unpacking. There I decided the gluten-free diet was sucking the life out of me, caved and ate pizza, and immediately felt better. Later learned that apparently you can have withdrawal from gluten and experience symptoms similar to an alcoholic stopping drinking. Awesome. Gluten is my alcohol.
Friday Tyler had his camp closing ceremony. He got his perfect attendance award and he won the first grade boys art award, along with his friend Connor. He got to paint the first color on his shield this year. The boys did a lovely dance routine to "Staying Alive". Pretty comical.
My mom, who is "friends" with Resorts Casino on facebook, managed to win us free tickets to the Great American Circus for Friday, so we decided to head down to Atlantic City after camp. My brother Chris joined us and we ate a late lunch early dinner at Johnny Rocket's on the boardwalk before hitting the beach. It was our first ocean trip of the year. Jason spent much of it being fearful of the water, meanwhile Tyler was busy jumping waves. Eventually Jason spent some time running back and forth up the beach from the waves, all in fun. He did let some water touch him and then finally sat at the edge with Tyler for a minute. Baby steps.
We made our way to the big top to get our seats for the circus. Apparently there was no need to rush because it was empty. Literally. We got our choice from the front row "VIP" seating and waited for a long time for the circus to start. Sadly, just before the show, we counted only 28 people in the whole tent, including the 5 of us! It was a great show though and the boys loved it. I could have benefited from some anxiety meds before the show because some of the stuff had me on the edge of my seat...tightrope walking, bow and arrow shooting, etc.
On Saturday we were supposed to attend a Riversharks Clinic, but it was still really hot and we would have had to skip a friend's party, so ultimately we decided to go to the party instead. It was a roller skating party for Gianna, so I wasn't sure how Jason would react. We walked in and he immediately started crying that the lights hurt his eyes. I wasn't feeling positive but put on my best happy-attitude face and reminded him that we couldn't keep crying if we wanted to stay for cake. Imagine my surprise when he ended up requesting to get roller skates and spend a good portion of the party "roller skating". I use that term loosely because he just held my hands and walked really slow, but he did it and was so proud of himself. Tyler shockingly was even slower because he insisted on doing it completely by himself. They both had a blast at Gianna's "princess pirate" party!
Three hours late I managed to make it to my friend Tracy's baby shower. I missed most of everything but was very thankful to see Tracy and Alex before they head back to Chicago to await the arrival of their baby boy.
I got home just in time to drop Tyler off at his friend Gavin's house for a sleepover party. He had a blast. And come home very cranky!
On Sunday afternoon my cousin Kristen invited us to her new gorgeous (and huge!!) home to celebrate her daughter Annika's 8th birthday. The boys had a blast playing with their second cousins and it was nice seeing everyone. We even got a picture of all of my grandparents great-grandchildren.
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