We have fallen into a pattern of finding Jayce stuff to do each weekend. This sounds negative but it’s really a very good thing. It gets us out of the house and keeps us busy, often involves some kind of exercise or at least a lot of walking, and keeps Jayce from watching The Wiggles all day long.
So Friday night we bought tickets to a baseball game in Frisco. It was a Rangers game at the AA ballpark which was really neat?- a small family friendly ballpark with the big names. Jayce was uber excited about going. It was actually great leverage all day long – we just kept reminding him of the ballgame later and he probably would have done anything we asked.?I was dreading the ballgame. Jayce has this tendency (being a 2-year-old) to be excited about something but then loses interest after 2 minutes. I figured the ball game would be the same way – he would sit in his seat for a minute and a half then be done with the whole ballgame experience. I thought I would have to walk him around the ball park while Richard watched the game because in spite of having a 2-year-old Richard still believes he should actually get to watch the game when we go. Surprisingly?Jayce was actually interested in the whole thing for a couple of hours before saying “baseball game finished”. He sat in his seat or stood in front of it and watched the game, people, and the between inning fun with the mascots. He talked non-stop about baseball, the Rangers, Ranger Captain (the mascot). He wouldn’t even try cotton candy and he asked repeatedly for soda. He had an absolute blast and won’t stop talking about going to another baseball game. Good thing I bought Richard those tickets. Maggie slept through part of the game but was wide-eyed watching everything for most of it.
Then Richard decides he wants to take Jayce fishing and I figure the ballgame was such a success, why not? Bad, bad thinking. Two-year-old, water, waiting for fish, hook on end of invisible string are just a few ingredients of the recipe for potential disaster. We called up Tiffany and tell her the plan so she can bring Nicolaus if she wants to. She says she’ll meet us there. Richard starts the fishing fun while I go sit under a tree to feed Maggie. I watch Jayce run circles around the pier, climb rocks next to the pier and all in all have nothing to do with fishing. Richard spends this entire time trying to fish and not paying attention to our son. I am so glad Jayce did not fall in the water but I will say it had nothing to do with parenting. Tiffany gets there with Nicolaus and she helps corrall Jayce while Richard continues to fish. I figure I’ll catch a few pictures of the boys fishing together since nobody was really catching any fish. I pull out my camera about the same time that Jayce starts playing with Nicolaus’ fishing rod. The string gets tangled around the boys and I’m not sure how they managed to not hook either of them. I put my camera down to untangle them since Richard is still so busy fishing. He proceeds to make some snarky comment about me putting my camera down where it could fall in the water. I nearly smacked him upside the head – I just couldn’t decide whether to use my camera or the fishing rod with the hook on it. I couldn’t believe he had the nerve to stand there and fish while his son had a hook inches from his foot and then give me a hard time about my camera when I jumped up to help. It was definitely time to go home at that point. We packed up the kiddos and all our stuff and headed home before I shoved my husband in the water.
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