Last night, Tom played in a students v. staff softball game down at SJSU. This meant, Dylan and I had to drive on over pretty much directly from school. When I got there to pick him up, he was dry and in the same pants, but he apparently hadn’t gone pee for quite some time! Simply informing him that it would be a good idea to pee before we drove 35 miles wasn’t sufficient motivation…and neither was some encouragement by a couple of other parents passing through on their own pick-up trips! But, finally, I picked up his potty and took it into the staff bathroom so we could “race”, and wouldn’t you know it, he went pee…and, boy, was there a LOT! I was relieved (and so was he, I’m sure!)
Once at the game, Dylan was so excited to see Tom out there on the field! I couldn’t get him out of the car fast enough. He was just chattering away, a mile a minute: “I wanna see Daddy…is he playin’? Where’s the batter? Is that softball?”
We did a bit of running with another little fella named Noah and then, right before the game started, Dylan ran over to his travel potty, shouting, “I need to go poo!”. At first I thought I heard wrong, but I could see he was desperately trying to unpack the thing, so I waddled over and helped him set it up right behind home plate! And, boom, there he went! I was so proud of him!!!
Shortly afterwards, it was Tom’s turn to bat and we watched him zing a solid line drive…but too bad it was caught!
Dylan was just an absolute sweetie during the entire game. He was cheering and clapping with the rest of the crowd and kept asking me what this person was saying and what that person was saying (mostly, it was people barking out strategies and rooting people on)…We spent a lot of time behind home plate just throwing around an extra softball (and also kicking it around like a soccer ball!).
The staff went on to win the game 6-0 (apparently, they’ve never lost a game so far!) and, afterwards, we had a nice dinner at International Vegetarian House.
Dylan didn’t want to use the potty during dinner, but afterwards, he used it before we headed home.
Unbelievably, since he was a “no-nap-nic” that day (he declared this to me at school, following it up with a little hop and an, “isn’t that funny??”) and he woke up earlier than usual, he did not fall asleep on the way home!
While we were getting him ready in the car, he talked about reading three books (Flotsam, Click Clack Splish Splash, and Sleepy Bears), and I think he stayed up just for that…Even though he was droopin’, he sang songs with me instead (very, very, very cute!). Once home, we read the 3 books we promised we’d read and then it was lights out….
