There's no place like HOME: Wednesday afternoon at the A's game

Funny and cute things the kids say ...

Tim had 2 tickets for the Warriors game Friday night. So one boy got to go to the game with him while the other would get to go to Lincoln Lopez's house to play. We let the boys choose. First they both wanted to go to Lincoln's house! Then they decided that Miles would go to the game with Tim and Caden would go to Lincoln's. Caden said the prayer that night. He said "Thank you dad can go to work, thank you that Miles can go to school, and thank you that I can go to Lincoln's house." We were all busting up laughing during the prayer.
-November 15, 2007

Miles was at a high school football game with Tim. One of the players had tattoos on both of his arms. Miles thought that was cool (oh great!) and told Tim that he wanted a tattoo. Tim asked him what kind of tattoo he would want and Miles replied with "SpongeBob."
-November 9, 2007

Miles: "Caden Doll is my arch enemy!"
-October 31, 2007

Tonight for dinner I made turkey broccoli casserole with rice. The boys always say that I make gross dinners, but tonight Miles added that "This dinner is worse than school lunch."
-October 22, 2007

Tim took the boys to another football game friday night. This time it was the Concord Minutemen vs. the Dublin Gaels. So this time, Caden thought the "Minimen" were playing against the "Girls."
-October 19, 2007

Last Friday, Tim took the boys to the high school football game that he was covering for the newspaper. The teams playing were the Northgate Broncos vs. the Concord Minutemen. They got to stand on the sidelines and watch the game. Caden thought it was really cool. The next day I was asking Caden about the game. I asked him if he remembered what teams played. He said, "the Boncos and the Minimen!"
-September 29, 2007

Caden is learning to count. He can count to 29 with a little help (but he somehow manages to skip 16 everytime). He gets to 29 and says twenty-ten, For 30. And does the same for the rest of the numbers.
Thirty-Ten = 40
Fourty-Ten = 50
Fifty-Ten = 60
and so on.
-September 2007

Tim and I went out with some friends on their boats. The boys went to the babysitter's house. After we picked them up we were telling them about how Tim got flipped around on all the different tubes. Miles said "So dad, there was 2 people on the tube ... you and your KIDNEY STONE!!"
-August 11, 2007

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Wednesday afternoon at the A's game

Tim's work had a company day at the A's game. They had a few extra tickets so Tim got "approval" for Alexandra and I to come along. We took a chartered bus from Walnut Creek to Oakland. Then we had lunch catered by Kinder's meats. The ribs were delicious. The wind was blowing so hard while we were trying to eat. It was very messy. Then we went to the game. The A's have fallen apart this year. Everyone has been injured. Mark Ellis and Shannon Stewart were the only players that started the game, who started the first of the season. The A's lost again, 9-5. The game lasted almost 4 hours. So we got back on the bus about 4:30 and then had to drive home in traffic. The bus drive seemed to last forever. It turned out to be a nice day. My arms got sunburned and Tim got voted "worst tan line" at work the next day. He had his sunglasses on and he refuses to wear a hat or sunscreen on his head. It was a good day. It just seemed to drag on by the end of the day. However, the day didn't end. I picked up Miles and Caden from our friends who were kindly watching them, and then we went over to the baseball fields where Caden had baseball practice. We got home about 7:15 that night and had Taco Bell for dinner!