at St Ignatius. Waiting for the 8th graders to come out and meet their grandparents or special friends,

then to Mass in the church.

Third grade plus Carson’s 4th grade class form the choir and put on this mass. Carson had one of the readings.

Afterwards, we went to lunch at Cafe Bernardo.

Late Friday afternoon, a baseball game for Carson.

At one of his at-bats, he actually struck out, but the catcher dropped the ball. A fast runner, he was safe at first, stole second, and then scored.

Bottom of the sixth inning, we’re ahead, time to bring in the Closer.

Three up, three down. Good job Carson.

Avery has been enjoying riding on dirt trails and practicing lifting the front to ride on the back wheel (not easy).

Sunday afternoon at Jesuit: Avery, running back!

Thais gave me, for my birthday, an experience: make a cutting board at a local woman-own woodshop.

I’ve wanted to do something like this for a long time.

Clamped and ready to sit for a while. We need to schedule another session to finish. So much fun!

A double header for Carson in the morning.

Later Avery had a flag football game at Jesuit.

Tis the season for weekly games.

I picked up the boys from school, then took Carson to baseball practice. I decided to stay and read a book recommended by Carson – The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo. After practice we went to Sophia’s volleyball game at Christian Brothers.

School started and so has a new sports season. Carson is playing soccer and fall baseball.

And he pitched in the 6th inning to save the team’s one-run lead.

School starts next week. Sophia will be a junior at Christian Brothers. Avery-8th and Carson-4th at St Ignatius. In between the boys going fishing in the morning and Sophia’s volleyball tryouts in the late afternoon .. Grandma! Charlie is always in the middle of whatever was going and sometimes it makes him look like a wheelchair dog.

Lunch at Zócalo.