District Champs

The first round of All Star Playoffs was this weekend in Lanesville. Floyd Knobs easily won both pool play games giving them the number 1 seed, neither team scored against them. We then played 3 more games to win the championship. We outscored our opponents in the Districts 85-8. That's kind of a big deal. Millie got MVP of the first tourney game where she also scored her 12th career home run she told me later. She's keeping track of them I guess.

I was very proud of this group of girls. We had our share of mistakes in the championship game (allowing the other team to score 6 runs on us) but hopefully we will get the kinks worked out when we play the State Tourney next weekend. The teams will get much harder from this point on.

12th Home Run

Her and her friend Kate having some fun between games.

Camp Invention

Millie and her friend had a great time at Camp Invention this past week. It was all about inventing, creating and problem solving. There were about 50 kids who attended and it was lead by teachers. They got to build electric cars, work on a group invention (Millie and Kelly made a play place for Dobby) and as a larger team they built a pin ball machine from electronics they took apart and other upcycled items. Millie and Jacob both said they had a great time and Millie wants to do it again next summer.

Providence Football Camp - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Part 2

The Bad And The Ugly-

So Reed looked like this on day three, having fun and looking like a cute little 5 year old.

About an hour later, he looked like this...

...and we were at Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville. The kids were switching stations and he and another boy were not watching where they were going and apparently ran right into each other. Reed obviously took the hit right in the eye. I did not see it happen. I noticed Reed's group was at a new station and I was scanning the boys looking for him. He wasn't there. No big deal. I looked back at where he had been and I still didn't see him. My friend Cammie was sitting by me and she said she heard someone crying. I saw a boy laying on the ground but it wasn't Reed. I looked around again and still didn't see him. I looked at the boy on the ground again and behind him I saw a little pair of red shorts. I have never been one to immediately run to one of my kids when they get "hurt". But I did stand up and start walking that way. When I was about halfway there, the coach sat Reed up and I saw his face. Well, let me rephrase that, I saw blood. A lot of blood. A lot of blood completely covering his face. Ok, it's ok to run to him now. The coach called for the girls to bring the first aide kit and my friend Cammie, who is a nurse, came running over to help. Thank God for Cammie, seriously. She offered to go to the hospital with me. She left her kids there with another friend and hopped in the back of my car with Reed. She talked to him and tried to keep him calm and navigated me to the Children's Hospital because I had no idea where it was. They took Reed back immediately, we didn't even sit down. He finally calmed down and Cammie went to park my car. I had called my mom and Rick on the way over. My mom showed up fairly quickly and once we had talked to several nurses and consults, Cammie had her dad come pick her up and take her back to Providence to get her car. Rick did make it over around 1:00 and stayed the whole time.

They did about 10 X-rays of Reed's head and we actually saw another boy in X-ray that we knew - he swallowed a penny. We found out that nothing was broke or fractured in or around his eye and head, that was good news. They were going to do a CT but decided it wasn't needed. Now it was time for stitches. They said they were going to do a conscious sedation where he's not totally out but he's basically so drugged he won't feel it or fight them and he won't remember it. He was not a big fan of the IV but got over it quickly enough. He did try to fight a little bit during the stitches but he didn't win. The worst part was trying to get him to wake up afterward. Reed is a sleeper and he saw no good reason at all to need to wake up or open his eyes. Rick worked with him and we finally got him to keep his eyes open.

He looked a little better after the stitches and getting cleaned up. We were very lucky really, that it was just a few stitches. He was pretty swollen the next day but he said he felt pretty good, even though he couldn't open his eye.

We took him to his eye doctor the next day (after football camp, he still went because he wanted to get his T-shirt and water bottle and show off his injury aka "energy" of course!). She is a good friend of mine and she insisted I bring him in so she could look at it. She didn't even charge us, she's great!

He checked out fine so as long as we can make sure he doesn't bust the stitches open in the next few weeks, we should have a full recovery. Now, please tell me how I am supposed to keep this child from roughing around the next few weeks. Where do they sell those bubbles??

Providence Footbal Camp - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Part 1

The Good -

Reed has been very excited about football this year. Rick and a friend have decided that our boys need to play tackle football this year. I was against it at first but then looking back at flag football over the past 2 years, the boys tackle anyway so you might as well have the protection on and be prepared for it. So Reed is signed up for a tackle league this fall that Rick will coach (his new job is such a blessing for our family!) so I figured he needed to learn a little more before that starts. Him and a buddy have been doing a football camp this week at Providence Catholic High School where my dad went to school. Reed thought that was pretty neat. It's a great little camp, only an hour each day, where the boys work on footwork drills, tackling drills and running the ball. He has really enjoyed it and I have been impressed with how well run it is and how much they are learning in just an hour.

Fusion - Santa Claus Tourney

Millie's travel team played in the Santa Claus tourney last weekend. My mom lined up a cabin for us since all the team was staying at the campground. The team actually played in Dale which was very nice since Rick's parents live there. We got a lot of family visiting time in as well as a lot of softball.

The girls played great and went in as the number 1 seed after pool play. There were 2 pools so there were actually 2 number 1 seeds, that was something new for me. I learn something new every time as this 10U group keeps playing. I lost track of scores but we won the first 2 games Saturday easily on Saturday, I think allowing 0 runs during one of them. They did end up getting beat by 1 in the second game on Sunday. If they would have won that game, they would have went to the championship game.

Lots of family came to watch Millie play including my mom, sister and nephew as well as Rick's grandma and grandpa, his parents and a couple of his aunts and uncles which I thought was pretty neat. Millie kept saying, "I hope we do well because I think I have the most fans!"