Whirlwind Visit

Just as I finally got my internet to connect, Wendy and the boys dropped in.  They were going to pick some sweet corn from the nearby field.  Wendy intended to let the boys help her...although, "help" might be too positive a word.  Zane would probably be off like a rabbit or covered in ants in seconds.  Gage is more likely to have actually provided some help, but that is not always a given either.

But, as luck would have it, the field was being watered.  So, Wendy left the boys here while she went to get the corn.

They were like marbles in a pinball machine.  First here, then there.  First they were in the playroom, which had a lot of pillbugs near the walls.  I walked 20 feet away to get the broom and dustpan and when I got back they were gone.  They were in the game room where the small weights (1-10 lbs.) were.  I shooed them out of there, explaining that if one of the weights dropped on the tile floor it would break the tile.  They migrated to another corner of the room and got the big exercise ball and started bouncing/tossing it around.  One of them took it up the stairs to let it bounce/roll down like a big boulder.

After discouraging that, they decided they would like to play Wii Fit, so I attempted to get that started.  It wouldn't come on.  That meant I had to get the manual and find the Troubleshooting page.  While I searched for the page, they moved on to something else.  I needed to unplug the Wii and leave it for two minutes, so after unplugging it I headed back to the playroom to sweep up the pillbugs.  While I was doing that, the boys found the Nerf Ping Pong set that has resided on the bottom shelf of the bookcase for decades.  Gage started putting the plastic net together and I realized that the long folding table would make a pretty good place to set it up.  So, after sweeping up some of the pillbugs, I got the table and Gage helped me open it up and put it in place.

Obviously, there was no volleying back and forth.  Gage would hit the ball to Zane.  Zane didn't necessarily react in time to move his paddle.  Zane chased the ball and hit it (sometimes) to Gage...like a rocket.  Gage couldn't react in time.  I chased the ball out of the room a couple of times until I ended up closing the door to at least contain it in the room.

About that time, Wendy came back and we talked briefly in the kitchen.  Turns out the area where the sweet corn is located was not being watered, so the boys could have gone with her, not that it matters.  When we returned to the living room we found Zane on the stairs at the first landing and Gage at the bottom of the stairs, playing ping pong their own way.  Not safe, we said. 

She herded them out of the house and they loaded the corn into the car and headed home.  Back inside, I replugged the Wii and it came on right away.  So, then I put all that away.  Put the broom and dustpan away and headed back upstairs to try and use the internet before it decided to not work again.  So far, so good.  This all happened in about 30 minutes.

Except that when I got this ready to publish...the internet connection was lost.   GRRRRR!!!

I had to come to Wendy's to check-in for my flight to California...so, while waiting to be able to do that, I was able to publish this fascinating post.

First Homerun!

Wendy texted me this photo of Gage at about 10:30 last night.  I was at the bay, so I missed his baseball game.  He got his first homerun last night!  The ump gave him a ball.  You can tell he's pretty excited about it.  I sure wish I had been there to see it.  Uncle Brent was there, though, and reported that Gage was hitting the ball really well.