The All-Star, Far, Far Away, and Swimming

So, there is now an all-star in our family of Wild Things. Boo's team has made the all-stars for her age level in coach pitch softball. We are so very excited for her and the team. I'm very proud of her overall as well. I wasn't "that" dad (or parent) that kept detailed stats of all the games and how she did seeing as she is 8 and I would prefer that she just play because she is enjoying it rather than anything that I say or do. But she seemed to have a really good season as far as I could tell from watching her. She was able to get on base it seemed dang near every time she came up to bat, and in the field she did pretty good as well with it being her first time to actually be playing in the field for real. She had a few rough times, but overall she was solid I thought. I look forward to seeing what happens next week once the games start.

On a different note, I am away from home this week. Thankfully this is the first time that I have really been gone this summer. I am at our district church camp and I'm with a few friends from my West Texas days helping to direct the camp. I will be honest here, I enjoy doing camps and things like that, but it's getting harder and harder to get up for it especially when it means leaving my family at home. I know that God is going to show up this week, we have a great speaker and a good worship band as well. More than anything else, we have a group of students here who are excited about what God wants to do and ready and receptive to His Spirit. That doesn't make it any easier though to be away from my Wild Things. I know that Little Bull told his Momma that "Daddy is far, far away." Yesterday he took off to the office as soon as he woke up from his nap to find Daddy. It does cause my heart to break a bit when I hear those things.

Puck had her end of the year t-ball swimming party on this last Saturday. That was a great success as far as we could tell. They let the siblings swim and play as well, so that made it easier for all of us. Puck went down the slide, and loved it but had to have Daddy there at the bottom to catch her, which was interesting. Boo continues to get bigger and better in the pool as well. She went off the diving board a few times into the 12 foot end. I am amazed by my kids.

The Momma Wild Thing is a trooper. She is able to put up with me being gone and she doesn't complain about it. I'm proud and honored to get to call her my wife.

I guess that's it really. Hope you have a great week. I will try to let you know how our camp is going through out the week if I have a chance.

Until then Peace and Love y'all.

Sonny & Cher @ The Flap Jack and Knack Show

We had our first youth talent/variety show this evening. Two of the Wild Things were in it and both Boo and Puck did great with their songs. There was no stage fright for either one of them, so that was good. We did have one act that was got a great response. As you can see from the title, we had Sonny and Cher join us to perform their hit song from 1965 "I've Got You Babe". In case you need to see it to believe it, here is the video footage of this occurrence.



Overall, it was a great night. Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun and that was really the point to all of this anyway. Thanks for letting me share with you.

Peace and Love y'all.

Puck's Practice

I told you earlier that I would post a video of Puck practicing her song, "Tomorrow", for The Flapjack & Knack Show. Here she is doing her own rendition of the song. We are hoping that she will actually sing this for the show and we won't have to use this as the actual filler, but with Puck you just never know when the shy factor is going to step it up to 10.





Did you notice the "rock star" face that she made there at about the 1:05 mark? Classic. If she will actually sing this on Wednesday, that would be awesome, so here's hoping.

Peace and Love y'all.

Some Where Over the Rainbow

I know I haven't updated about the adventures of the Wild Things in a while. I will do that soon and let you know about vacation and all that good stuff. But today I wanted to share this video of Boo singing "Some Where Over the Rainbow" practicing for The Flapjack & Knack Show that the youth will be doing on Wednesday.





I thought that she did a pretty good job in this, but that could also be my daddy bias coming out. Also, there will be video coming of Puck practicing her song "Tomorrow" for Flapjack & Knack.

Peace and Love y'all.

Field Days, Memorial Day, Vents and Hide and Seek

So much to write about and update here. Where to start, where to start. I supposed that I will go in the order that things are listed in the title of this here blog.

Boo had her field day last Thursday. It was great to get to go and watch her do the various "events" that were going on. It made me remember what it was like when I was doing field days in school. It seems like our field days were a bit different though. We had more races and events that we could choose to enter, whereas Boo just did everything as a class, and there were fewer races. I remember doing things like the dizzy bat race, the wheelbarrow race, a dress-up race and just regular races such as the 50, 60, 70, and 80 yard dash. Boo had a sack race, a chase and tag relay, some class races, a slip-and-slide and some inflatable slides. Regardless of the differences, though she had a good time doing it all, and I enjoyed watching her.

Here are a few pictures of my fourth grade field day (we couldn't come up with any from second grade like Boo):

And one of Boo and her teacher, Mrs. Rushing, and me and my second grade teacher, Mrs. Jones:

Memorial Day was our next thing. Started it off by going to The Woodlands for a Texas Conference wide youth lock-in. Went pretty well, but could use a little tweaking for the future. We followed that up with a nice family game of baseball after I got home and got to rest a little bit. It was fun to see Puck and Little Bull "playing" baseball like the big kids. Little Bull already knows how to run the bases and even saw a need to slide into home at one point.

Tonight we had a couple of things that went on. As the female Wild Things were cleaning their room, and I was helping the male Wild Thing  pick up balls in his room, I noticed I could hear Puck through the vents in the floor. So I started calling her. Moma Wild Thing told her where I was calling her from, so she got down on the floor to talk to me. The first thing she wanted to know was how I got in the vents. A four year old's concept of how things like that work is so awesome.

And finally we played a little hide and seek tonight in the house. I was once again reminded that my Wild Things don't always really "seek" when it comes to finding things. I was hiding in Little Bull's room in his closet, and heard all three of them come in there a couple of times to look, but since I wasn't right there just standing in the middle of the room waiting to be found, they decided that I wasn't in that room. It wasn't until a little while later that it dawned on them to open the closet. My hope is that one of these days, they will be able to find things that are not in the middle of a barren floor with nothing around them. We shall see.

Well I believe that is enough for now.

Peace and Love y'all.