William George has signed up for his first year of rag ball, and he had his first practices last Thursday night and again Saturday morning. To kick it off, there was a spontaneous downpour at Thursday's practice, causing parents/kids to flee the field quickly. One way to frighten a group of 4/5 year old boys is to have all of their dad's shout to them to run to the car. Lots of tears from the group. It was one of those rains of Biblical proportions... the kind where it looks like you have showered with your clothes on. Overall, it was a nice "welcome to rag ball" type of practice. By comparison, Saturday was pretty tame. Sure, the field was still muddy, but what's a little mud?
Of course, we stayed inside Saturday at home because the rain returned and because our city is apparently trying to inch up the rainiest cities lists. We cleaned up and watched some movies, although some brave friends of theirs spent the rainy afternoon riding bikes/scooters in the neighborhood. I was tempted to have the trio join them but 1) we were clean, 2) we were dry and 3) we were warm. Had they caught us pre-clean up, we would have been game.
We had lunch Sunday at Macaroni Grill, where the trio decimated their spaghetti and pizza orders, as well as two loaves of bread. After lunch we did some shopping because the girls were in dire need of some Mr. Sketcher markers, and George was in desperate need of a new car for his collection. Because of the delicious amount of daylight yesterday (a point for spring), the trio played and had a good time.
Have a marvelous Monday.
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