Today marks the last full day with a granddaughter
in residence. Tomorrow the FBR will welcome her parents who are coming to retrieve
her. While her leaving is a bit of a downer (cancel that – a huge downer), at least
we’ll have not only her parents but my son’s family, Great Aunt, the Keene Friend
and the Cantankerous Friend with us tomorrow. We’re having the annual Family Fantasy
Football draft on Deckzilla for the second straight year. This promises to be
fun because we’ll be welcoming the PCR to the league this year although he’ll
be drafting remotely from Pittsburgh. A full couple days to wind down the week
with the FBR.
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| FBR and I at the Game Last Night |
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| Wife with Our Rhode Island Hosts |
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| FBR Always Swimming |
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| Launched by Grandpa |
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| Boogie Board Surfing |
Yesterday we traveled once again to
spend the day at our friend’s large house and pool in Rhode Island. The FBR is
extremely aquatically inclined and I was required to spend the time in the pool
with her since there weren’t any cousins available this time out. I spent some
time teaching her how to breath while perfecting her crawl stroke. She was a
huge fan of the Young Woman and the Sea movie which featured this and was very
receptive to instruction (a deviation from her usual attitude). I was also
required to launch her over my shoulder, she’s either getting much heavier or I’m
getting weaker.
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| The Star in Repose |
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| Then Back in the Pool |
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| Back in Worcester, Helping Abuela in the Garden Complex |
Our hosts prepared a fantastic chicken
dinner which kept the FBR out of the pool for a short time. As soon as she polished
her lunch off, she was out on the trampoline and then a sand box. Our hosts
brought out some old photos that were very funny. They captured our hosts trip
to visit us in Hawaii. I was deployed to the Middle East during the time so I wasn’t
included in the photo display. We’ve always said the FBR is the spitting image
of her mom at the same age. These photos were from that time. We called the FBR
over and asked her if she remembered meeting our hosts in Hawaii and showed her
the pictures featuring her mom. She was confused because she honestly thought
the pictures were of herself, at least until we all started laughing.
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| The Old Photos, my Wife and Daughter |
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| Son and Daughter |
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| I Got in Trouble with Wife When I "Alerted" on this Photo |
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| Daughter, Spitting Image of her Daughter |
Upon our return to Worcester the FBR and
I prepared to head out again as we were going to a WooSox game. The FBR is a
huge baseball (and Red Sox) fan and was very excited about the outing. She said
she wasn’t going on the Polar Park playground since she acquired a cut last
year there that required a bunch of stitches to close. She was, however, all in
on the variety of snacks available. We had downed the following by the fifth
inning: hotdogs, popcorn, ice cream and cotton candy. Between every inning the
Polar Park announcer had events planned where they would scan the audience and
show patrons on the big screen. The FBR was determined to appear there before the
end of the game, dancing her heart out a couple times. All her attempts were unsuccessful
but I enjoyed the time watching her enjoy the atmosphere.
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| FBR at Polar Park |
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| Snackin |
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Bummed by End of Game for not Appearing on Scoreboard
Wearing my Jacket as well as Hers |
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Returning to the Scene of the Crime
Post Game at the Place she Cut her Chin Last Year |
Today saw a trip to my Favorite
Panamanian’s hair dresser to get the FBR a pre-school days haircut. Since my
wife still can’t drive the car with her bum knee I was designated as the official
escort. I waited in the parking lot to read while they went in. In a surprisingly
short time they emerged with a fabulous new doo and a story to tell. Luigi, the
famous hair dresser, was so charmed by the FBR that he refused payment for the haircut.
It’s how the FBR rolls. I’m really going to miss having a granddaughter in residence.
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| FBR in the Chair this Morning |
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| The New Hairdo |
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| The Fingernails that Only Lasted a Day Before she Wanted Them Off |
One movie fell in the A-Z watch, a
keeper: Lethal Weapon 4, a series that definitely ran out of steam here,
keeping because part of series.
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RECURRING CHARACTERS:
ABFA – Amazing Best Family
Athlete - my daughter
in law; BR3 – Blog Reader #3 – granddaughter
#3; BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel -
second granddaughter; Cantankerous Friend – friend since grade school who likes to argue
about everything, poses as radical leftist to attract women; CRC - Connecticut
Riverboat Captain – another close friend from high school, renowned sailor
of the big river; Curbside Girls – close
friends of my daughter acquired during him her single days in Brooklyn; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Favorite Panamanian - the wife (of
course); FBR - First Blog Reader -
first granddaughter; First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Kindergarten Friend – friend
since kindergarten whom I reunited with after many years; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two close friends of my wife –
her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd Musquetera (musketeer); Namesake Nephew –
son of Great Aunt and Soxfather named after me; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member; PanaGals – female relatives
/friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin
Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife accumulates wherever we
have lived & their spouses; PCR - Pittsburgh College Roommate – high school friend, also a “Minor
Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; PCR+1 - Pittsburgh College Roommate’s wife; Riggins - also known as the Grandpuppy, son's dog; Seis Amigos
- two couples from our condo complex and my wife and I; Soxfather – my brother-in-law (whom I miss more than I can ever
explain); Tia Loca – wife’s younger sister; Wingman – my son in law; Wingmom – Wingman’s mom, of course
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