A Day Out At The Ball Park

Last Saturday was a great day for us! We had tickets for a Detroit Tigers ball game, and the weather was wonderful!! We started out our day by visiting Fire Station #57. One of the full-time firefighters has a friend, that was on duty, so we stopped in to visit him and the rest the crew. They were great! They gave us a tour of their station, which isn't to far from the ballpark. They also offered us lunch. Cody thought it was pretty cool! We had plans though to go to Cheli's Chili Bar, which is a bar & grill owned by a Detroit Red Wings player. What's best is that it is right across the street from the ball park.

We tried to get Cody to smile, but the sun was in his eye's.

The fire-works were really awesome, better than some I've seen on the 4th of July!

We never got the chance to catch a fly-ball, but it was a really fun day!!

I'm a Proud Mom

  Again, Cody tested for another belt this past Saturday. He's now received his 5th belt (Green). He has 6 more before he receives his 1st Black belt. Actually 9, because the last three, (Blue, Red, and Black) they have to test twice for. Don't ask me why! I guess they just want them to know the moves really well. I'm really proud of him. He's come a long way, and has learned a lot, especially from the Leadership portion. They teach them things like honesty, and belief, etc. It has helped him in school also! He still has to work on his hearing though!! (LOL)

In full gear for sparring

Receiving his belt from Mr.Lee (3rd degree black belt)

...and don't ask me why the kids put those stickers on their foreheads that come off of the new belts?! It's kind of like a tradition?!

Change

  Change. Some do better than others when it comes to change. Not that I don't like change, it's good to have change in our lives. I just wish I could freeze time when it comes to certain things, like getting older, and my son growing up too fast. It wont be long before he stops believing in Santa, the Easter Bunny, etc... I like that innocence about him. All to soon it will be gone. Especially with the things that kids have to learn in school now, stuff that I never learned about until I got to Junior High! Where did it happen that kids were forced to grow up faster? I wish that kids could just be kids. They can't go out and play or ride their bikes without the parents being worried. I remember getting on my bike and just going all day, and Mom would tell me "just be back before it gets dark out."  I wish sometimes that I could take him back to the time when I was growing up so he could get a taste of what it was like to be a kid, to have fun, and not have to have the worries that little ones have now.
  I savor every moment with my son. I try not to think about 'tomorrow', and just live in the here and now. I hope after he grows up he don't have any regrets, he's able to be proud that he was our son, and that he thinks of us as having been good parents. No one ever comes with instructions, we do the best we can, and hopefully that will have been good enough.