Too much!!

Last night Grace had softball practice. Did I mention that the fields here in Katy are 35 minutes from our house?? EGGG! Sometimes I dread softball practice so much on Tuesday and Thursdays. We rush home from school, get a snack, race though their homework and then run out the door to get in the car. I do enjoy the 35 minutes in the car because the kids usually take a nap and I get some quiet time, but it's the rushing around part that gets my goose every time!!

Once we get out to practice, it's great. The weather has been unbelievable! Everyone told us that Houston was going to be so hot and humid. To tell the truth...I like it. Actually, I love it! We've had some great breezes the past 2 weeks on practice nights and I love watching Grace do something that she loves and is actually really good at...softball.

The practice is no stress...USUALLY. Most nights, we get out there and we are the only team practicing so Susannah and Parker can just run around and play. I love it.

Last night was a different story for a few reasons.

Parker runs up to me about 6:00..."MOMMY, I HAVE to POOP!" Let me tell you...those are not words you want to hear from your 3 year old when you are at fields where the bathrooms are LOCKED, yes LOCKED, during the week. And then he kept saying it. "Mommy, I have to POOOP!!" Realize...he is getting louder each time and there are stands full of mommies that are watching their kids practice, too.

So, what do you do?? I took him out behind a building that houses the locked bathrooms (uggh!) and I let him do his thing. Yes, I did. Lucky for me...I always have wipes and LOTS of hand sanitizer in my purse. So we took care of business and cleaned up our business. Children in this case, are just like dogs...You have to clean up your messes in public places. (I also had a wal-mart bag in my purse, how or why, I have no idea, but boy am I thankful!!)

Okay...I know...TMI...but then when we got back from that whole Parker situation, Susannah is standing on the bleaches yelling, "MOM!!" I run over...Yep.


She pulled her first tooth! She was so excited!!! So, we did 2 things for the first time. Out at the ballpark. Lovely, I know. But, it's something to remember, so I blog!!


Happy Loosing your first tooth, Susie Q! First you turn 6 years old and then the next day, you loose your first tooth!! What an exciting week! Now we need to go and spend all that money you got from your birthday and the tooth fairy....Whooo Hooo!!

Being different

Let me start this post with this: I am not looking for sympathy nor anything of the sort, I am just typing what is in my head....maybe I just need a nap.

Growing up, I was born and raised in the same town and went to the same church until I was in the 9th grade and we moved away for 3 years for my dad to get his doctorate at FSU. It was great, I loved it, made great friends in Florida and we moved back my senior year to Searcy, AR....yadda, yadda, yadda. My child has not had the same experiences, yet....we have moved almost every year of her short little 6 year old life. Hopefully we are here for good (I love it and that is what they tell us...) but until this point, she has made friends and then we have to leave them. So, now we are here, where there are lots of little girls and she really has no good friends. This breaks my heart. I have had wonderful friends, since the day that they were all born (I'm the oldest of the kids in my class) from church and then I also got to go to school with them, growing up...

Grace is different. I have to give her that. She loves with every being in her body and she loves big. She is big...that is one of the reasons that we sent her on in school so that later on in middle school and high school, she wouldn't tower over them. We wanted to level out the playing field. I guess that is our fault, maybe we should have held her back, but she was ready to go to school and wanted to go... But, her loving sometimes is just too much. I don't think it should be but other kids don't want to be hugged and loved on and that is what she does. How do you tell a child that is sooo happy to have even someone her age talk to her, that she can't hug them because it scares them off? I just think that she gets so excited that she even has other little girls at church that will talk to her that she goes over the top...then of course, they are scared of the tall girl with the red hair that is going to hug them too hard. It's not their fault, I think I would be scared, too. She is a smart, funny and beautiful little girl but she is longing for a friend to do something with....almost to the point where I would shrink myself and be her friend if I could.

AKK! I just don't know how to handle it...Any suggestions? If anything else, just put her on your prayer list...and me too on how to handle her when she is disappointed or sad. Isn't this stuff supposed to happen when they are teenagers?

Oh, and don't comment (family, this is to you...) on the little girls at church. I know it is easy to blame the other kids, but they have all just been together for a while and Grace will have to find a way to be "Grace" and still be their friend. They are all super sweet little girls and haven't done anything mean or anything like that, I just think they could be a little scared of Grace and her "overpowering" hugs and love sometimes.