Baseball, a phone call, and tags!

It was Back-2-School Day at PGE Park! I think back to school is kind of funny for our family since this year it will just be... to school.

Prior to the 2 pm game time it was muggy and warm! It ended up getting up to 80 degrees and raining by the end of the game... sticky!

Lucky the Beaver entertained the crowd of 9,000+. Can you imagine being stuffed in that get-up with the weather that I just described!?! Yuck. He did a good job of making the kids laugh though!
What would a back-to-school night be without a pencil? The kids actually received backpacks at the gate when we got there and were entertained by the "pencil" who threw out the first pitch. The kids were all supposed to get to run the bases but that part was canceled due to the rain (liability issues). Luckily, we hadn't told the kids that that was going to be one of the perks of this game.

This goofball kept wiggling her loose tooth. Yah, that's right. 4 1/2 and her top left tooth is loose. Seems kind of early to me and I'm really not all that thrilled about it but she is. She wiggles it with her finger, her tongue, her bottom lip... anything that she can get a hold of to push on it. Ugh, I still remember that aggravating tender, itchy feeling of a loose tooth.

Again, this time, once the game started, Rylan was all into it. He cheered, he boo-ed, he clapped and thoroughly enjoyed himself... until he fell asleep in the 6th inning!

Karleigh waited until the 7th inning to fall asleep! It was the most uninterrupted baseball Jim and I had watched in a really long time. It was well worth the knots in our forearms and the back cramps. The Beavers ended up losing to the Tacoma Rainers so really, for us it was a wash as far as who we wanted to see win.

We didn't end up riding MAX this time. The bridge that the train uses to cross the Willamette River was closed and we didn't want to have to deal with transferring to a bus and then back to the train so we decided to try our luck and park downtown. Turns out we found a great spot just across the street from the gate which was wonderful considering that it was raining pretty hard once it was time to leave. The kids will get to ride MAX on Thursday evening! More on that after the fact.

So, today was feeling like a pretty good day. The kids got a box from grandma and grandpa P. today so they're jumping around the house looking like a Grizzly cheerleader and a football player. Karleigh was working on a video of her loose tooth and the phone rang. Turns out it was Dr. F's office (he's the one I saw after my ultrasound confirming my most recent miscarriage). It was his nurse calling to say that they had gotten me a consult at Northwest Perinatal Center. I don't know why that freaks me out. I was liking, a little bit, living in my little clueless world. I guess part of it is me hoping that all 5 of my losses were just flukes, all due to things unrelated. I'm supposed to call tomorrow to set up my appointment. I'm nervous about it but I will do it. I don't know. Part of me wants to know that there IS something that can be treated, another part of me wants to believe that fluke theory. I don't know if one is better than the other. I suppose the appointment will give me an education but I'm not convinced that it will change anything.

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Now, on to what I procrastinated in my last post. I tag Adrienne, Heather, Lacey (because I'm convinced this is the only way I'll get her to blog something!), Lauren (because she needs something to take her mind off of being overdue!), Lisa and Shelly (because it'll be fun to know these things before I meet her in real life next month!)

Now, I'm off to leave comments for these 6!