It has been a fun, tiring, and interesting week to say the least. MD and the kids are still here. I am en route to Philadelphia for a conference and I had a ton of work that had to be done before I left. My biggest client's mid-year review is on Monday, so I will be heading to Chicago for the day. I certainly wouldn't be able to get things done without distraction here, so I worked over at my cousin Amy's house. She is on her honeymoon and he house was empty. They have wireless internet there, so it was perfect for me.
Tuesday night MD and I went to the Tribe game and took Jace. It was hysterical. Now Jace has been to games before, but at the last game he had his first close encounter with the Tribe mascot Slider. Lets just say he is not a fan. He was beyond frightened of Slider and kept looking over his shoulder for him. When we got to the seats, he just seemed out of sorts. He had been talking about going to the Tribe game all weekend and how excited he was to "go to the Jake and see Travis Hafner, Jhonny Peralta, and Grady Sizemore." We went down to our seats in the 5th row behind the Tribe dugout. He didn't like all of the people around him, so MD took him for a walk in the middle of the first inning. They came back, he was fine for a half inning or so, and then he wanted to go home. MD pointed to the mostly empty upper deck and told him to check it out; He then wanted to sit up there. So off we went. I told MD I was going to get food and to call me to tell me where he was. The call came when I was in line and he said "we're in 561, top of the stadium." I went up to 561, looked up, and there they were, 15 rows higher than everyone else. Last row of the stadium. As I hiked up what seemed like a mountain, I could see Jace's demeanor had already changed. The rest of the game was a 180. He was totally into the game, having a great time, cheering loudly. When new Tribe OF Chin Soo Choo came up, we yelled "Chooooooooooooo" all together and he loved it. It was hysterical. Just before Grady Sizemore stepped to the plate, MD said "Jace, he is going to hit a HR for you." Next pitch he went deep. Jace went crazy. Loved the fireworks, etc. Then he called my mom and said "Grandma, Grady Sizemore went deep just for me!." It was so cute. I thought during the first inning we'd make it 2 innings tops. We ended up leaving in the 8th. We took a ton of cute pictures, tow of which I have posted above. Something really hit me that night; to see MD's eyes light up in joy being at the game with his son and having Jace go crazy when Grady went deep. You could just sense the pure happiness a father gets while watching it through his son's eyes. I know our dad had the same feelings with us when we were kids.
I've got to give MD credit - he is a pretty amazing father. I don't know how he does it, these kids are great, but they will tire you out. Leah, Mom, and I are worn out just watching them. The guy deserves a ton of credit.
So I am on my way to Philly, and I am interested to see what happens during the screening process at the airport in light of this morning's arrests of 21 people plotting an alleged terrorist attack aboard flights from London to the U.S. It is scary to think about, we try to block it out of our consciousness, but terrorism is such a reality in our world today. I'll be checking my bags since we can no longer take any sort of liquids on the plane with us. What is amazing to me is that not only is my 5th anniversary coming up, but it is also the 5th anniversary of 9/11. Time just flies by.
Cleveland is the city of confirmed sightings. All we do is run into randoms here. Last night at Costco we saw my boy Todd's parents, as well as the best random sighting of them all - my old Chinese Teacher, the great Kay Voss-Hoynes, better known to all as "Wu." I took Chinese for three years in high school as my language, mostly because it was easy, Wu was the nicest teacher in the school, and I needed the A. I saw her and said "Wu! Todd Dery." She came over and said "Tie De!," which was my Chinese name and gave me a big hug. Leah was dying. She said "I'm so glad I finally met the legend, I've been hearing about you for 10 years." The best was how I told Wu the extent of my Chinese vocabulary, and it always includes "Wa sure che suela" which means, "I am 18 years old." Wu said "17." HAHAHAHA. So all of these years, I have had that one wrong. It was great to see her. What a great lady.
Days left until we move into our house: 21
Song of the Day: "On a Plane" by Nirvana
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