Very First Baseball Game!

A couple of weeks ago I said to Ben, "We really should try to get Dex to a baseball game this summer." Three days later, I got an email from CC saying she had extra tickets for Monday night's White Sox game!  Dex loves CC so he was thrilled to see her. He sat next to her "all the way at the top".

CC taught Dex about all aspects of the game and he told her a lot of his jokes.

Dex enjoyed looking at details on the stadium (speakers, lights, scoreboards, the thingies that measure the speed and trajectories of the pitches).

Every now and again, he would get engrossed in the action on the field but after three innings, Dex turned to me and said, "I'm done with this now." We convinced him to stay for one more White Sox at-bat.

When we saw Dexy putting his head in the popcorn bucket, we knew it was time to go.

Thanks for a wonderful summer baseball evening, CC. And thanks for being part of Dexter's memories of his first ever baseball game.

New Do

For the past few months I have been suggesting to Dex that he let me trim his hair but he kept refusing. The other day when I suggested it, he agreed. Ben and I think he looks adorable (he still has a mop on top!) and he loves it.

Too Buckety

The other evening I got an excited call from Elissa. "I'm at Michael's and they have buckets on sale for 50 cents each! Do you want any for Dexter?" I asked her to get him four and then put Dexy on the phone to tell her which colors he would like. When I saw the stack of buckets waiting for me in her office the other day, it reminded me of a library book we read to Dex a couple of months ago about a little boy who just wants a bucket for his birthday. When his parents take him to a bucket store, he decides he must have a specific one on the very top of a tall shelf. He refuses his parents' suggestion for a bucket that looks exactly the same but is within reach by declaring it, "too buckety".

When I saw the stack of buckets waiting for me in Elissa's office, all I could think was "too buckety". In this case, too many buckets.  Dex was thrilled when he saw them and wanted to go right away to the nearby park's sandpit to build castles.