So I didn’t post about week 3 of soccer. There’s a reason for that. Alyson went for pictures and presumably did well there, although there were only 4 kids from her team in the team picture. Then she went to her game. Except it was 80 degrees at 10 in the morning and she was not a happy little girl. She was hot, she was whiny, she really wanted to play on the playground, and she absolutely positively did not want to play soccer. She screamed for 40 minutes. Needless to say, I have no pictures to share with you.Brandon had another great game, but I wasn’t there. I was at home with grumpy child.
Saturday evening we had a blast at the Mariners vs Padres game at Safeco Field. Most of Christian’s team and their families went, so we had a great big section in the nose-bleed seats (should’ve trained for weeks for all of the stairs to climb – especially up and down and up and down with Alyson to go potty). It was a Little League day, so the boys wore their uniforms and got to parade around the field before the game. It was a really hot evening (and expensive – one kid gets ice cream and suddenly they ALL want some $5 ice cream), but it was great fun. The boys were all riled up and really enjoyed the game. At the end, they were all standing together, waving their shirts in the air, cheering for the Mariners. What fun!
Sunday, Brandon wasn’t feeling great, and said he had a headache. In hindsight, he had a fever, but with the warm weather I didn’t realize it. At church, we ended the Sunday School year, and Christian was presented with a new bible (a third grade tradition). Christian had a baseball game in the afternoon, which Bill blogged. Monday, Brandon was quite obviously not well, with a fever of 102.5. He slept most of the day. Tuesday, he wasn’t any better, and I got hit with a chest cold. Wednesday, when he still wasn’t better, Bill got him to the doctor to find out he has strep throat. Poor kid… if he’d ever mentioned his throat hurt, we would have had him in sooner! We’ve both taken it easy the rest of this week.Today, Bill and the boys took the van in to have the tires replaced. We even had a rebate for the tires. Turns out we won’t need it. The van was all ready to go, tires replaced, when they managed to break our van. At first they said it was the brake line. Fluid was leaking all over. The manager got Bill and the poor starving boys hooked up with a rental car. Turns out, it’s not the brake line, it’s a line for the rear heating system, and they don’t have the parts for it. So we’re without our van for potentially a WEEK! What are we driving instead? A pretty 2008 silver Toyota Highlander.
Our four new tires? Free.
Our van to be fixed as good as new? Free.
Shiny new Highlander to drive for a week? Free.
And an extremely apologetic manager AND corporate staff to go with all of that free stuff.I think Discount Tire would like to keep our business. I’ll try to get some pics up later. Let’s hope for a quieter week next week!
