Adro and Evey, Sunday afternoon

No baby yet... Adrianne is feeling OK. She's starting to wonder if this will go all the way to Oct. 7th.

No soccer for Evey this weekend as she had a bit of a fever Friday night. 

We'll keep you posted if there is any baby news!

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GOALLLLL!!!!

BIG news… Evey scored her first goal! Indeed, she scored it last Saturday on that rainy, drizzly morning.

It came late in the game… in fact, it may have been a golden goal, as both sides stopped playing immediately after the goal.

A low cross came from her left halfback. Evey timed her run perfectly, staying onside. The ball skipped once, Evey put her right foot out, made good contact despite the slippery conditions, and the ball spun into the lower right corner of the net! GOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!

OK, it didn't happen like that at all. It actually happened like:

Coach Kevin assembled the Yellow Giraffes. It was about time to pack it up as the rainy weather had all the parents fidgety.

Coack K declared, "Guys, let's get Evey a goal!" The kids fumbled around with the ball until Coach K finally propped it up right in front of an empty net. "Evey, kick it in the goal!" coach shouted. Evey kicked it, but it missed the goal. He got the ball back and teed it up again. The other kids all were confused, but continued bumping into each other and falling down as they are wont to do. Evey wound up and kicked this one into the back of the net! The kids all went wild with a goal celebration! Evey celebrated, but she didn't really understand... that she had just SCORED HER FIRST GOAL!!!

I had a smile ear to ear. It literally was the highlight of my weekend. I couldn't have been more proud.

I should mention, Evey was the only girl on the field for either team. It didn't slow her down. She had a nice game, getting more kicks in this week.

And another update... yesterday Evey was declared HAPPY FEET PLAYER OF THE WEEK again, making for back-to-back weeks, and three of these awards total. I even got an email from the coach about her skills. Here it is:  

Meg and I love working with Evey both at Leagues and at Lawrence Montessori, her enthusiasm is great and she always listens to us. I'm actually training with Meg to do weekly classes and came along to Lawrence Montessori last week; Evey did awesome there so I know she can do very well at Leagues as long as we encourage her! It seems like she has been practicing at home too, so whatever you guys are doing there, definitely keep it up -- I'm confident that she will keep improving with each week!

WOW! We're so proud of her... GREAT WORK EVEY, my SOCCER STAR!!!

BABY UPDATE: Adrianne is doing well, but nothing to report yet. She has an appointment tomorrow so maybe we'll learn something then. The due date is still Oct. 7th. If he goes the whole way, that's cool, we just hope for a healthy baby. The only complaint Adro has is some trouble sleeping, and occasional belly pains. But she's getting lots of back rubs.

OF NOTE: Today would have been my Dad's 65th birthday. We got the family together on Tuesday to do a toast to my Dad.

It's interesting how much has changed in a year. Last year, my Dad's birthday was reason to get a melancholy drunk on. This year, I was hopeful we'd be celebrating the birth of my son on my Dad's birthday.

My Dad certainly is not forgotten, but there were some serious strides made in 2011 to accept that Dad is gone and we're going to have to move on without him. Still miss him like crazy, but I think my brain finally understands the reality of it all. Here's to Boyd, who I know was watching Evey first goal on the sideline with me!

Player of the week -- again!

Evey was named the Happy Feet player of the week again! We are so proud of her.

She's been playing Saturday mornings and doing really well. She hustles and plays the whole game. In fact, her last game, she was one of only two players on her team still in the action! The rest had all dropped off like flies.

No goals yet... she seems too polite to kick it sometimes... but she's getting better each week.

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Evey and Daddy's "Dark Knight"

This is a Seth-and-Evey collaboration, the first(?) of what I hope are many to come. Evey wanted me to draw something she could color. My favorite thing in the world to draw is Batman, so I fired one out for her.

She did all the colors, added the wings, and included the flower. She even added a "mom and dad" to it. Awesome!

The other day she asked me to draw my dad ("Pappa" to Evey) so she could color him. Well, I took it seriously and drew my best interpretation of my dad with a blue crayon I could accomplish. She took one look at it and said, "This doesn't look like Pappa!" and turned the page.

Oh well. At least she was thinking about him. I think I kinda nailed it, but 4-year-olds can be tough art critics.

I haven't posted/scanned/photographed enough of Evey's art in the past couple months. She's gotten really good at coloring, but more impressive to me, painting. She paints flowers, rainbows, girls in dresses, etc. I really need to sit down with her and show her some things, I think she'd pick them right up. She's a little artist. And she does get frustrated when things don't turn out the way she wants them... something I can relate to when it comes to art!

Big Sister School

Evey attended a class at LMH a few weeks ago where she learned the ins and outs of being a big sister. We got to see a real little baby, as well as a fake little baby (pictured), we watched a video, saw the hospital room where momma will have baby brother, etc.

Evey did great! She is now certified to be a big sister. She was a good listener through the entire class. The other little girl in the class was a chatterbox. I'm pretty sure they made her return to try big sister school again, because she couldnt've learned shit with her mouth flapping non-stop like that.

Yep.

Happy birthday, Momma

Happy birthday, babe. Pretty soon we're going to have a family of four. Thank you for that. All of my good karma of the last seven, eight years... I feel it is largely attributed to you. Can we please keep this going until you put me in the ground? That's my plan. I hope you're down with it.

-Seth

Meeting Asher, and all kinds of awesome

The Jones family had the privilege of meeting Asher Heiman recently. Evey even got to hold him, which really excited her.

We kept asking Evey if she could believe we'd soon have a baby boy the same size in our family. She'd smile. She so doesn't know what she's getting into. ...neither do I.

Asher's a real sweetheart. It's cool that the Heimans just had a son, and the Rockholds are also expecting around the same time as us. This could be a formidable group of Jayhawks in about 19 years.

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Evey fell asleep on my chest the other day, enabling me to turn the channel to the old sci-fi movie "Forbidden Planet" on TCM, a movie I'd somehow never seen before. I looked over at Adro, then looked down at Evey. I whispered to Adro, "Just think... here in a few weeks, it'll be even numbers... instead of 2-on-1, it'll be 2-on-2!"

Adro looked over the top of her glasses at me and said, "More like 3-on-1."

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Someone smelled something in the living room tonight. I don't think it was me, but I've learned that I don't have to be cognizant of it to be guilty of it.

"Dad farted," Evey told Adro.

"I did not!" I said.

"Mom, he did. I saw the smoke come out of his butt."

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Me and Evey went outside to do some yard work a few days ago. My garden looks like hell... I had to pull out some serious weeds. Frustrating.

Anyway, I had Evey watering some plants. She ended up playing in the hose. Then she needed to go to the bathroom, so I sent her inside.

While she was inside, she changed out of her wet clothes. She was chatting with Adrianne.

"Mom," Evey asked Adrianne, "When am I going to be awesome, like Daddy?"

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Air Hogs

My Mom bought Evey and I an "Air Hog" recently. We took it out to test it this weekend.

I asked Adrianne to come out with the camera because I figured either me or Evey was going to get hurt. Somewhat surprisingly (based on these photos) it was Evey.

I thought the Air Hog would fly down the street. That's what I was prepared for. Turns out it BOOMERANGS and does a loopty-loop right in front of your face. Don't I look tough trying to avoid taking one in the nose?

Turns out this thing was a blast. Evey isn't big enough to throw it yet, but she would try, and then giggle every time I chucked it and ducked it.

Don't let the one photo fool you where the Air Hog seems to be peacefully sailing around us... most times this thing went up, then right back at me. I felt the wind come off it more than once.

But then our fun ended when Evey tripped and scuffed her knee. I was going to string-trim a few spots in the yard while Evey played with the Air Hog and had pulled out the extension cord. She got tripped up by the cord. Dangit!

Still, a good time, and we'll get it out again. I figured it'd disintegrate after a few wrecks, but it held up pretty well.

I really like the first photo. It reminds me of a photo my sister and Dad would have taken back in the mid-70s. I'm wearing a sleeveless shirt (classy!) and Evey's hair is wild and she's dressed like, well, a little kid. I think this will be a photo I'll cherish for a long time. Someday, I'll show it to Evey and say, "This was right before your little brother came along and started hogging all the attention!" Thanks to Adro for coming outside and shooting a few pics!

Good and terrible

GOOD:

Evey was named "soccer player of the week" at her "happy feet" soccer class this week. ALRIGHT EVEY!!! Way to play some soccer! Kick it, girl! You make daddy proud!

TERRIBLE:

Evey came running into the living room this evening.

"Oh my gosh, guys!" Evey shouted, sounding like a valley girl. "There is something bad... terrible... in the bathroom."

"What is it, Evey?"

"There's poop. On. The. Floor."

"What?!?"

Sure enough, Evey somehow managed to get a streak of poo on the floor. Unless I did it during the day and I just totally somehow didn't notice. Maybe I was too enthralled by the new issue of Esquire? I don't know. It's a mystery.

Soccer, good. Poo on the floor? Terrible.

Building blocks at the library

Brought Evey with me his afternoon for a few errands. Squeezed in some time at la biblioteca. Next stop, lunch at Casa Agave with Teresa.

Was in Charlotte Monday and Tuesday for work. Got to catch up with Lervik for an afternoon, which was nice. My performance at pool was not-so-nice.

Was in Atlanta the week before for the PGA Championship. It was an excellent trip for me, check out some of the interviews I did at www.golfdom.blogspot.com. interviews include Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell, Jim Furyk, Lee Westwood, among others.

Excited this weekend for Buzz Under the Stars 2. Incubus, Bush, Jane's Addiction (among others) at LiveStrong Park. If you are going, let me know, so we can catch up for a beer. Right now it's four of us... my sis and bro-in-law and Danny P. I'm jonesin' for a concert right now since apparently they allowed Lollapalooza to go on without me.

Adrianne and Evelyn are doing well. The nursery is all finished, clothes folded and in the drawers. We are all really excited or Baby Brother to get here. Due date of Oct. 7th, but doc thinks he'll be here early.

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Do me a favor?

If you still have Thursday's Lawrence Journal-World, save me the sports page... I wrote the Gary Woodland story on the front page, and I'd like to mail a copy to dear ol' Mom.

Thanks!

Nice photo from a nice golf course

That I visited recently. Somewhere in Georgia.

We took Evey to get her haircut on Sunday. I got a lot of great photos. They're on my small camera, once I download I'll share.

We met the Kaminskis -- all four of them now -- for lunch and then the haircut. Those two girls are really cute together.

Evey said something that made me feel good after we parted ways with the Kaminskis. "I like Sadie," she told us. "She laughs a lot!"

It's good to laugh together. Evey realizes this, even at the age of four.

That's a man, man!

Ok, now I like the sonogram tech. The worm turns.

Our son got an "A-plus" review from the tech. Currently 4.2 pounds. Good looking heart. Practicing breathing. Big head. And, excitingly, both of his balls have dropped. Which is exciting because mine didn't drop until I was about 17.

That's a picture of his equipment, by the way!

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Baby sonogram 8/5/11 and a God complex

This is a pic of the girls right before we go in for another sonogram.

We're 15 minutes early for the sonogram because the sonogram tech won't do her job if you're 1 minute late. I once got here 3 minutes late, and Adrianne was already well into the process.

This, as you can imagine, doesn't sit well with me. Sure, lady, you can see inside women's stomachs, but that doesn't mak you God!

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Captain America OK, not great

Took this pic of Evey in the Camaro the other day.

Took Adro to see Captain America this weekend. I thought it was OK. I'd heard some rave reviews of the film... the movie wasn't bad, but it was middle-of-the-road as far as these superhero films go. Thor was better. And this doesn't come within swinging distance of Iron Man.

The effects on Chris Evans, making him look skinny and short, were impressive.

For me the story never really got going until the end.

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