Random Notes

 

• Eye Exams – Just concluded cycling the boys through eye exams.  Kevin’s eyes grow worse, but, still , only half the ‘power’ that I was.  Matthew and Cpher see 20/20(!).  Just shocked by that but hard to express how happy I am about it too…..
• Jock? - Cpher, the other day, says that a kid at school called him a ‘jock’ and he took offense to it.  “Why did he call you that buddy”.  “Well, I’m always either the first or second person picked by the captains when we get split up for any kind of games at gym”……
• Tennis – Kevin had his first tennis lesson in years yesterday; told him after musical that we would go down this road ONCE MORE and if he didn’t want to put in the time outside of the lesson than the lessons would be over pretty quickly.   Think the instructor is a good match for Kevin, and the hope is that Kevin’s in good form at tryouts in early August, not at the end of the season in October. 
• Think we have made the fateful decision to leave Wiley and Holly here at Casa de Gray while we’re gone instead of shipping them off to ‘camp’.  We’ve moved away from crates, they sit out in the living room when we are gone and while they will eat whatever we stupidly leave on the counter near the edge they aren’t overly aggressive about it either.  We’re lining up the usual platoon of neighborhood teenagers to watch cats and dogs but it will be different this time; they’ll have to spend a lot more time down here than normal to ‘be’ with the dogs…..