End of Baseball Season

This was the second season that Breven has played baseball, but first time doing Coach-pitch. He did a great job and had a lot of fun. Breven was number 14 just like Smokey when he played hockey when he was little. The number was just assigned to him. We did not get to pick it. Breven would hit left handed the first time up to bat and right handed the second time up to bat. Smokey would show him something new and Breven would pick it up very quickly. It was fun to watch, both father and son, be so enthusiastic about playing. Breven liked playing all the positions. He did a great job at catcher. He actually was able to catch some of the pitches. Coach Larry was such a nice man. He smiled and laughed a lot.

Thanks for the fun season.

Three in a Row

Breven came running in and announced, "I just pulled my tooth out." That makes it that he lost two teeth in the same day, which is very exciting.

His two front teeth have been loose for quite awhile, and one has been hanging in front of the other for about a month. We have been able to see half the roots, but not brave enough to pull it out.

This morning when he woke up, his tooth was missing. We looked in his bed and on the floor, but we did not find a missing tooth. Breven is worried that he swallowed it, and that the tooth fairy will not come. We wrote a note to explain what happened and hoped for the best. With the other front tooth gone, he realized the second front tooth was really loose too, and so he pulled out tonight. Now when you look in his mouth, he has three missing front teeth on the top not just the usual two-front teeth.

A year ago, he lost his first tooth, his right-side incisor, and a permanent tooth has not grown in that spot. When we went to the dentist, we saw that it was the corner of his permanent front tooth that pushed the side tooth out. Now Breven says he has "three in a row, just like tic-tac-toe." He's a poet, and he didn't even know it.--he, he

New Version of "Slug Bug"

Not too long ago, there was a commercial for a Volkswagen van. If you recall, the family drives around and watches the neighbors slug each other and say, "Gray one." Sienna inquired about the commercial and I told her about looking for Volkswagen Bugs while you're out in the car.

The other day, as we were driving home from school, Sienna said, "White one. That is 47." She and Breven have changed the rules of the Slug Bug Game and now they look for Sienna Toyota vans instead. It cracks me up because they are able to remember exactly what number they are on. Sienna is up to 167 and Breven has 88.

Breven is FOUR!

Today we are having a hockey birthday for Breven. We made a hockey puck cake and even found some hockey plates and cups. From the pictures, I'm sure you can see that Breven loves hockey right now. We don't even park the cars in the garage anymore because he wants to have the nets out and play.

Smokey is amazed how quickly he can pick up little tricks. Breven can flip a puck up on his stick, and he knows the difference between a wrist shot, slap shot, snap shot and backhand. Smokey is convinced that Breven will be a very good player. Unfortunately, he won't be able to play on a serious team because the games are on Sunday here. We might have to be like Goldie Hawn and move back to Canada to let Breven play on a real team.

The "Hockey Song" by Jugheads is playing for Breven. He loves this song and requests it at bedtime too. He really is "Hockey, hockey, hockey all the time." (Listen to the song, if you can get pass the twang).

Breven is a sweet and patient boy. If he gets a treat from school or somewhere else, he will always want to save part of it for "Yaya" (Sienna). When we pick him up after school, he comes running up giving hugs.
Some of Breven's favorite sayings are "super" and "maybe so." Everything is "super"--super hot, super big, super fast, super long, super cool, super yummy, super hungry. If he is solving a problem he will usually add "maybe so" to the end. For example, the other day he said, "Caden is crying, Caden eat, stop crying, maybe so."

Have a Happy Birthday my sweet guy!!

New Baseball Shoes

A few weeks ago, Breven starting wearing snow boots everywhere. (Please remember that we live in California and we do not have any snow). He put the boots on to play outside, go to his speech class and run other errands. I got a little embarrased when we went to the park and he had on his blue plaid shorts and boots. It looked rather silly.

When we were getting ready for school, I asked Breven to put on his gym shoes. He told me that he didn't want to wear those shoes because they had holes in them and he did not want to get wood chips in his shoes. After all these weeks, I thought he was just being silly, but it ends up that he was being practical. The stitching on the top of his gym shoes had come out. I had to push down on the top of the toe to find the holes.

We went right after school and bought some new shoes. He wanted baseball shoes so every pair he found he asked, "Are these baseball shoes?" I told him that he would be able to play baseball in the shoes.

He found some navy blue gym shoes with a little orange trim (Edmonton Oilers colors). Of course, he asked if they were baseball shoes, but when he tried them on he said, "Me play hockey." Right there in the store, he pretended to play hockey to see if his shoes could keep up with his moves. He was sold. We bought the shoes and he wore them home.