On Monday Braden left for another business trip to Paris. So while he's gone I'm trying to make sure that when someone has something on I can go to it and also make sure that they can make all their ballgames as well. Tuesday was a test for me though, and without great neighbors I couldn't have done it!
Tuesday morning Kaleb had his first oral class presentation that he really wanted me to come to. So at 9:15 I was at the school, video camera in hand! He did a great job! Here is just a bit of it because he had to answer questions from his classmates for about 5 minutes after he was done presenting . . .
When he was finished I had enough time to come home and get lunch ready for Navia and then I went back to the school, picked up Navia early and we went to Emma's track and field meet, that was at a high school in Orleans.
We were lucky to find her right away (with so many kids around it was pretty hard to find anyone!) and she told me that she had already run a 100m Dash, which she didn't even know that she was in, and she won it so she'd be going on to the finals at 3:15. That was a problem - Kaleb got out of school at 3:30 and it took 45 minutes to drive from the track meet to our place so I knew I was in trouble. Luckily I had a neighbor's number in my cell phone and she said that she'd pick him up from school and take him home with her two boys and they could hang around until I came home - which was supposed to be around 4:30. Emma was glad because she really wanted Navia and I to watch her finals.
So we hung out and first up was her 4x100m Relay - she was the 3rd runner and I wanted to take pictures so Navia said she'd take video of it (hmmm - never again - it will make you sick to watch!!!). When the baton was passed to her their team was definitely in second place, but she is fast and you could see her catching up until she was the first one to pass the baton to the last runner and he ran and ran and they won the race at 1:07.26 with second place coming in at 1:08.55. Everyone was cheering like crazy and there were 4 very happy kids coming off the track! They'll be receiving their awards on Friday at school for that race.
Next was Ball Throw, which I ended up missing because I couldn't find her. By the time I found Emma she was grinning from cheek to cheek with a red ribbon for first place in the Ball Throw. She won throwing it 27.10m with second place coming it at 25.30m. Guess all the baseball and catch with dad paid off big time for her!
The we just had to wait around for a while until her 100m finals - which were delayed. Finally it was time and she ran really really well - passing everyone and making it so that even in the pictures you could just see her! I learned that I am not 'Carrie', I am 'Emma's Mom' . . . "oh, are you Emma's Mom, you must be so proud . . . she's so fast . . . you're a lucky mom . . ." Emma thought it was great! She won the qualifying heat with a 16.24 (second was 16.92) and won the finals in 18.47 (second at 19.54). By the looks of the times you could tell that the heats were in the morning and the finals were the last event in the hot afternoon.
We got home, everyone had showers/baths and were in bed by 9:45. It was a long, long day! I was so thankful for neighbors who are willing to help out in a pinch and also video cameras as we were able to send Daddy the videos and I was emailing him throughout the day, letting the kids know what he was saying and how proud he was of each of them - which put big smiles on the kids' faces too!
So we survived . . . but that doesn't mean that I'm not looking forward to Friday when Daddy comes home and we can do this running around thing with 2 parents . . . and the kids are anxiously waiting for him too! Guess we just love him too much to let him leave for too long!
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