game night!

the boys have both been sick this week - with croup per my google search.  mason stayed home from school yesterday and today too.  i was on the fence about them going to a baseball game tonight but we were planning on the whole family going.

neither big boy slept much last night (which meant mommy didn't sleep much either).  so i told matt that they would both have to take a nap if the baseball game was going to happen.  we had not told any of the kids about the game (this goes back to my strategy to make everything a surprise), but when mason was so overtired that he would not sleep - and was instead crying and trying to find things to do that didn't involve sitting or laying down, i broke my rule and told him that he couldn't go to the game without taking a nap.  and he did!

what a difference a few hours make!

the boys were both much, much better!  but when we were quickly eating dinner it was becoming obvious that manning was not so thrilled about being kept from going to bed.  daddy suggested that i could just stay home and get some rest and he would take the three bigs. neither one of us were expecting them to last very long since the game started so close to bed time.

well they did great!  so great that they made it to the end of the game!  (it was a fairly short game though.) it sounds like it was a pretty great evening.  the kids were pretty much what we would expect - madelyn had little interest in the game and started whining for snack pretty much as soon as they got there, maddux was a little antsy (well, he had been sick for two days and at home) and mason was just happy to be there sitting and watching the game.

and because we have a crazy good track record with getting balls at games - they all three came home with one!  now this was really shocking when matt texted me this picture before they headed home.  i guess madelyn was given one early in the game from the dugout, mason's game from someone else asking on his behalf and then maddux was crying when the game was over and he didn't have one so daddy told madelyn to go ask the last player (a catcher) in the dugout if she could have one.  and there you go - three balls.  i am pretty sure that this is maddux' first ball ever.  he definitely treats it like his first ever ball.  he is practically glowing with excitement.

so glad that everyone was healthy enough to go.  it works out well too because the boys and i don't have to leave the house tomorrow (again) and they can get a little extra rest from their super late night.  love.