The rainbow started out our evening at the ball park...a good sign that the rain had moved on and that was just the start of good things for our evening. Our team was playing the toughest team. We had beat them once and they had beat us twice. It was just one of those games that "we" really wanted to win...not that we don't want to win each game...but this one was just "one of those games" that a victory would be very sweet! The other team went went in front four to nothing early on. But our boys settled in and really played hard and came back to tie it. Then it went back and forth...the other team went ahead by two...we tied it back up...then the other team went ahead by one...and we tied it...by this time it was getting rather late. Number 2 (our Elijah) hit the ball in the last inning and knocked in the winning run! Hooray A's!!!!!! We had planned to go home after the ball game and celebrate Nathan's birthday (his birthday is tomorrow...but ball schedules and a gig for their family meant that we couldn't celebrate on his real day). We questioned going through with the celebration when it got so late, but we decided that everyone's adrenaline was flowing after winning the game that it would be okay to continue the celebrating...so we had a late birthday party...surprising Nathan...well, a little bird by the name of Isaac sort of let it be known before Nathan got into the kitchen...but Nathan wasn't expecting it till he met Isaac on the stairway! We had a yummy ice cream cake.
Thoughts back to Nathan's birth day...I was pretty sick at this time 46 years ago. I had a 105 degree temperature and it wouldn't be too many hours till Nathan decided to make a rapid entry into this world at 2:52 am Pacific time on May 19, 1972. I think that it got too hot in the oven for him! Luckily my doctor had put me into the hospital earlier in the afternoon as I don't think that I would have made it to the hospital...as it was the doctor and Woody were only 20 min. away from the hospital and neither of them got there. You wouldn't look at Nathan today and think that he was ever that scrawny 5# 12oz. baby boy who was born three weeks early. And, just think about how things/times have changed...back then he was rushed to the preemie nursery (doctors called him immature rather than premature) and we never got to do more than look at him through the nursery window...never touched or held him till he got to come home when he was six days old. I left the hospital several days before he did. As a matter of fact three or maybe four days after he was born I attended a St. Louis Cardinal game in Candlestick Park in San Francisco! What were we thinking?!?! Forty-six years later we still seem to be going to ball parks!
The rainbow started out our evening at the ball park...a good sign that the rain had moved on and that was just the start of good things for our evening. Our team was playing the toughest team. We had beat them once and they had beat us twice. It was just one of those games that "we" really wanted to win...not that we don't want to win each game...but this one was just "one of those games" that a victory would be very sweet! The other team went went in front four to nothing early on. But our boys settled in and really played hard and came back to tie it. Then it went back and forth...the other team went ahead by two...we tied it back up...then the other team went ahead by one...and we tied it...by this time it was getting rather late. Number 2 (our Elijah) hit the ball in the last inning and knocked in the winning run! Hooray A's!!!!!! We had planned to go home after the ball game and celebrate Nathan's birthday (his birthday is tomorrow...but ball schedules and a gig for their family meant that we couldn't celebrate on his real day). We questioned going through with the celebration when it got so late, but we decided that everyone's adrenaline was flowing after winning the game that it would be okay to continue the celebrating...so we had a late birthday party...surprising Nathan...well, a little bird by the name of Isaac sort of let it be known before Nathan got into the kitchen...but Nathan wasn't expecting it till he met Isaac on the stairway! We had a yummy ice cream cake.
Thoughts back to Nathan's birth day...I was pretty sick at this time 46 years ago. I had a 105 degree temperature and it wouldn't be too many hours till Nathan decided to make a rapid entry into this world at 2:52 am Pacific time on May 19, 1972. I think that it got too hot in the oven for him! Luckily my doctor had put me into the hospital earlier in the afternoon as I don't think that I would have made it to the hospital...as it was the doctor and Woody were only 20 min. away from the hospital and neither of them got there. You wouldn't look at Nathan today and think that he was ever that scrawny 5# 12oz. baby boy who was born three weeks early. And, just think about how things/times have changed...back then he was rushed to the preemie nursery (doctors called him immature rather than premature) and we never got to do more than look at him through the nursery window...never touched or held him till he got to come home when he was six days old. I left the hospital several days before he did. As a matter of fact three or maybe four days after he was born I attended a St. Louis Cardinal game in Candlestick Park in San Francisco! What were we thinking?!?! Forty-six years later we still seem to be going to ball parks!
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