Sporty-Sport-Sportums. We’re those people. For a little while anyway, we will be those
people. What people? The multiple sports practices/games-a-week
people. Last night, Zachary had his
fourth basketball game (where he scored at least thrice, thank you very
much)! Wednesday and Saturday, Matthew
has his first baseball practices of the season.
Our neighbor has asked Mike to be his assistant coach which will make
the season just a little bit extra cray-cray for us. Until basketball’s done, it’ll be a
three-ring circus, getting to all of our events. In terms of baseball though, I’m hoping – as much
as I’m able – to assistant coach the assistant coach. Mike and I would make a good team as he has
the baseball knowledge and I’ve got the herding-kids gift from years of
teaching. It also turns out that I have secret
mad baseball playing skills that no one ever knew about and I can pretty much
school anybody out there. (Or I like to
think so, anyway).
Lenten Update. We’re on week four of our six week Lenten
journey which for Mike and I means week four of being Vegan. Not that it’s all about weight loss, buuuut…I’ve
lost about five-eight pounds (depending on when I weigh in) and Mike’s lost
around ten. Just this weekend Justin
Timberlake danced as a piece of Tofu on Saturday Night Live singing a medley about
“Veganville.” Apparently, Mike and I are
very cool and sexy hopping aboard the Vegan train. “Hey, eat some kale, it’s so
much fun!...Ahhh, Veg out!” Anyway, it’s
going well. What’s most amazing thus far
is how my taste buds have changed. We’ve
gotten rid of the super sugary cereals and the most sweet/treat cereal we have
is “Oatmeal Squares.” I don’t eat it for
breakfast, but mix it in a little snack mix for the kids (with raisins and a
few chocolate chips). The Oatmeal
Squares definitely still have a little sweetness to them, but now when I eat
one, I can’t believe how sweet they are – they’re like candy!
This Saturday, we’re going to the school
auction where we’ve given ourselves special Lenten Dispensation (I’m sure the
Pope would be on board…oh wait…we don’t know who that is yet!) to eat the
expensive (and cheesey-meaty) meal that we’d paid for pre-Lent. I wonder how we’ll
be feeling afterwards!
Cirque du Martin Memories! On Saturday, we took the boys, my parents and
brother Chris to Cirque du Soleil’s show AmaLuna. If you’ve never seen Cique du Soleil, you
should put it on your bucket list. Yes,
it’s ridonculously expensive, but the memories WILL last a lifetime and is such
a fun experience. Our cirque experience
was a little more stressful than would be ideal for sitting back to enjoy the
spectacle. The boys, when we first
arrived, were both pretty freaked out and nervous after seeing the poster of
the mutant-serpenty guy. Then, at the
beginning, the place goes pitch black, the kinda-different-sounding music
starts and this piece of red fabic stats levitating in the middle of the
spotlit stage floor. You can imagine the
little fingers that were digging into my arms. Thankfully, once the lights all came up, they
relaxed and sat back thoroughly entertained.
It IS funny how not entirely stunned they were by what those performers can
do with their bodies. The rest of us sat
there with jaws on the floor as people did the most crazy contortion-y things
and the boys didn’t seem to really ‘get’ how impressive some of that is. They both, however, now want to work on
perfecting certain skills. Matthew wants
to work on his juggling. Zachary wishes
that he was still doing gymnastics and also wants to work on dumping popcorn on
people’s heads like the serpent guy did.
Ha ha ha, mr. clever.
The second half of the show was made
stressful, by Zachary’s writhing in pain from a ‘tummy ache.’ The poor child has suffered occasionally from
serious bouts of constipation in the past.
Last spring, it had gotten so bad on a couple of occasions we nearly
took him to urgent care not knowing what was causing him to be in such
agony. After going through some tests
with the peditritician she determined that he was suffering from the painful
but common-for-kiddos issue of constipation. Our ‘perscription’ was to start giving him
Miralax everyday. Zachary calls this his
“Poopy Potion.” We’d been doing it
regularly (ha! Get it, REGULARly) and he’d definitely gotten better, so we’d
cut back – still giving it to him some but not as often. Then, recently, it was starting to become an
issue, so we HAVE been making sure he gets his Poopy Potion. However, on Saturday, DURING the show, he got
one of his super bad tummy aches. And,
unfortunately, there’s really not a whole we can do about it (especially if we’re
not home – where he could try a warm bath)…we just have to wait until he can go. Anyway, sorry for the details, but all joking
aside, Zachary is a tough cookie and these issues have caused him seious
pain! So, sadly, we spent the last half
of the show trying to help him stretch out a little and nimble on a granola bar
that was in my purse (just to give him something to try). In some ways, it was maybe a good place to
have it happen, as watching the show definitely distracted him a bit. AND, he did enjoy it and has talked about it
nonstop for the last few days. For the
time being, anyway, we’ll be stepping up the Poopy Potion and upping the fiber
intake (though I don’t know how that’s possible). As we know and JT so eloquently rapped, “We got the cure for constant constipation — fiber. It’s a dope ingredient. The thing you want to
make your bowels expedient.”
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