Jean-Luc is Home

Jean-Luc is back from Brazil.

The plane landed around 1:20 AM. After Jean-Luc, Jane (Carla's cousin), and Victor (Jane's son) went through customs on the gate side of the airport it was around 2:30 AM before we finally greeted them. Then we headed to the baggage claim area and waited, waited some more, and even waited some more. Finally their luggage came out the carousel as there were only about 5 people left waiting to get their bags.

We made our way to the van. Loaded up the back and headed for home.

We finally got in around 4:00 AM. After Carla gave Jane and Victor a quick tour of the house everyone went off to bed after a long day.

Merritt Island Sr Little League

Jean-Luc went to his first practice today. It wasn't too bad. Myself and one of the other coaches were unable to hit fly balls consistently and Jean-Luc had to step in and do it for us. Thank you Jean-Luc. Of course he hit maybe ten fly balls and then he had to go practice pitching and it was up to me again. I'm way out of practice. Hitting the grounders for infield practice is so much easier.

Teenager vs Food

Well, it had to happen sometime. Jean-Luc finally had eyes bigger than his stomach. This morning at breakfast he actually had to push the plate away with some food left. He said "you won this round food."

Tired Little Guy

I took the boys to the baseball clinic last night. The rain held off until it was almost over. So it ended 10 minutes early. Two more clinics left. Wednesday and Friday for Chris and Wednesday and Thursday for Anton.

We got home last night after a quick stop at Dairy Queen on the way home with Jack and Julius around 8:45. Chris went straight to the bedroom and within minutes he was sleeping.

I would like to say it was all the running he did at the clinic but I think it was more the swimming today at day camp.

A Boy and His Cell Phone(s)

It was bound to happen. Jean-Luc's cell phone has finally died. Carla is out with him now getting him a new one. Not exactly sure what happened to it yesterday, but it won't stay closed or open and some of the buttons stopped working.

This is his third one now (I'm not counting the two Firefly phones we got for him as they were pay as you go) and after the third strike he will be out. He better take care of this one or it will be a looooooooooong time before he gets another one.

Recap: Phone number one - went through the washing machine and - surprise, surprise, surprise - it stopped working. Phone number two - it's identical replacement - dropped numerous times, slapped out of his hand and onto the ground most recently. Stopped functioning yesterday. Phone number three - just purchased for him. Only time will tell....