Yesterday Sara and I took Riley to see his birthmom.

I survived my birthday. That's all I have to say today.
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You know it's going to be a long day when you accomplish 12 important things on the to-do list all before dropping the kids off at school by 8am..............but forget to put on deoderant!
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Don't worry. I stopped back at home before I went to work.  :)
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Brittney's 400m relay team took 1st place at the track meet yesterday.

Individually, she took 2nd place in the 200m dash.

I'm not sure how her team did in the 800m relay because I had to leave before they ran it.

I do know she wasn't happy with her pole vaulting because the coaches entered her in so many running events that she didn't get to warm up and compete pole vault with everyone else. So instead of working her way up in height by starting at a low height (4ft) and working her way up as she made it over like everyone else competing, she had to start at 7 ft. She could have jumped it fairly easily but she was so frustrated by the time the coach let her jump that I'm not sure she ever really qualified yesterday. 

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 Tonight Brittney's got track practice, Riley has Little League baseball tryouts, Zeke has Special Olympics Track and Field practice and Anthony has soccer. Steve's the assistant coach for soccer so he'll have to be there and I'm supposed to attend a parent's meeting for Little League. I wish we had two more parents!
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Brittney has a track meet this afternoon at 4pm at the Brookings High School track. She'll be pole vaulting, running the 200m, running the 200m relay and the 400m relay.

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My shoulder still hurts so I've done as little as possible with it. So not much typing or texting. I was thinking that I was starting to go for a record of how many children in one family would receive detention in one week.

Anthony received detention because he called a teacher a dummy. I guess it's not the worst thing a kid could call someone, but it's still not appropriate so to detention he goes. Later, when I visited with him about the incident at the therapist's office, I think I got the story straight. They have a different teacher at the end of the day for some kind of reading thing. That teacher handed out a purple paper with writing on it. Anthony told me he had trouble seeing the words and got frustrated, so he tore the paper, crumpled it up and threw it  away. When the teacher got upset with him and said the paper was ruined, Anthony countered with, "No it's not! You can tape it!" Then it turned into even more of a power struggle and the teacher wouldn't let Anthony tape the paper back together, which in Anthony's mind would fix it. That's the point when he called the teacher a dummy and was given detention

I have to admit, Zeke's incident is a little bit funny if you know him. I had to drop him off on Friday morning because I had to get Anthony to Sioux Falls by 9am. Zeke was supposed to walk right to Mrs Rounds room and meet his teacher's aid. Instead, he went to the cafeteria and had breakfast, which he has been told before that he is not allowed to do. Then he lied about it when they asked him. That was problem number one. Problem number two came when he, I think, refused to finish his math paper at math time. The teacher made him stay inside during recess to finish it. He found the teacher's book and proceeded to copy the teacher's answers onto his paper. And then he lied about it. So now he has detention. I'm still not sure where the teacher was during that time because there should have been someone with him. Anyway, Zeke did not have a fun weekend at home because he wasn't allowed to do any of the fun weekend things the other kids got to do.

Anthony had his first soccer practice on Saturday morning. Steve took Anthony and Taylor and was going to take pictures for me to post but he got too busy coaching because the real coach never showed up. They had no coach and no equipment. I think it turned out ok because Anthony and a few other kids brought balls from home but hopefully by Tuesdays practice, they have the head coach there.

Now it's time to get the family ready for church and my mom's retirement party!!!   :)
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My shoulder hurts too much to type today and I need to try to type the minutes from last nights BIAC meeting during Anthony's therapy this morning. If I get that finished and can type more, I'll post more.