Rambling On..........

After the excitement of our new cousin Reese's birth last week, things settled down a little as the past weekend approached. The weather seemed to take a turn here in the Quads, a turn for the better for sure! The last 2 days the temp as been over 70 degrees! The extended forecast seems warm, jackets are put away, the heat is turned off and snow boots are no where to be found and the lawn is getting greener every day and it almost needs to be mowed!

We started soccer last week for Abbi and Elli, they actually had games scheduled the week before but heavy rains forced cancellations. Abbi had a game at 8:30am (ugghh!!), they played well, it was a close game, I think they tied...whoops....no keeping score in Dad's Club! The cool aspect of the game was the fog that surrounded the complex. You could not see 2 fields down at the complex, I wish I had taken the video camera for you to see. Abbi was her normal rock solid player, doesn't let anybody by her.

Elli's game was at 12:30, by then the fog had lifted and a beautiful sky shined through. They struggled in the third quarter and found themselves down 4-1, but Elli and her friend Sam mounted a comeback in the fourth quarter, with a little luck (and better passing) they could have easily tied the game, but it was not to be. Though her first game is a couple weeks away, Elli has started coach pitch Little League baseball. We have been playing catch a lot in the yard lately, she has moved up in gloves, now using Gabe's old Kerry Wood glove!

Last week Abbi started swimming for the Metro Swim Team at Central High School, an hour each weekday. I went and watched last Tuesday and I was real impressed with Abbi in the water. They work on technique and endurance, swimming lap after lap with a different stroke or variation of a stroke. Abbi has a couple friends on the team with her, so she is loving it! By 8:15 after dinner and homework she is ready for bed.

Gabe had a set back last Tuesday during Central's loss at Bettendorf. We were unable to attend with Abbi swimming and Elli at baseball, both the varsity and JV teams lost, but when Gabe got home we knew something was wrong. He complained of chest pain and had difficulty breathing. He thought it was his ribs. He collided with a Bettendorf player going for a ball. It was past 8pm when he got home, so Tiff called a nurse friend for some consulting. Ten minutes later they were out the door headed for the ER. Keeping me updated with text messages (we're so hip!) the doctor thought he had broken a couple ribs.

After some X-rays, no ribs were broken. He had some bruised cartilage in his chest. Gabe was given some pills and we kept him home from school last Wednesday, he was still in a lot of pain. He hasn't practiced full go, but only missed 1 game, earlier tonight a loss to North Scott. They were scheduled to compete in a tournament in Muscatine on Saturday, but it got weathered out. He is looking forward to Friday's game, he said today it was moved to Brady Street Stadium, where the new Field Turf surface should be completely installed by then.

I'll have the video camera out this week for some stuff to post soon. Keep checking back......