"Yep!"

   We are nearing the end of baseball season. We almost made it all the way thru incident free. ALMOST. Somehow my child has managed to convince his team he's a little shy...if you know him this is rather funny. Still, baseball is new for him so I gave him the benefit of the doubt on his newly acquired "shyness" Super has really loved his first year of baseball with one exception. As with most little leagues, the defense on the field will chant as a distraction when the opposing team is up to bat. Kal-El has never liked the idea so he never yells the infamous word "YEP!" at the batter. Never. Not once. He actually threatened to leave the team over it. Dramatic? Always. Chris and I manged to talk him out of over reacting and Chris relayed the message to his coach  about his sensitivity on the matter lol! Of course that was no problem...lets face it who cares  what they are saying(with in reason) as long as the are paying attention and trying to pick up the fundamentals of the game. We had a game last night. Everything was going smoothly until roughly the 4th inning. Apparently our assistant couch didnt get the memo about Kal-El's 'yep' phobia.....soooooo he asked him a couple of times to say "YEP".......
     Everything went down hill very fast after that. Apparently Kal-El told his coach he could move or walk. He then asked Super if he was ok to which he insisted that he was NOT ok. Thank God I was talking my head off since our team wasnt batting so I missed him being carried off the field. Yes, carried off the field as in the game stopped carried off. When I made it over to here the were standing around him he was saying he wanted to go to the hospital. My heart dropped and my knees were literally hitting. My mind raced a 1,000 miles per hour. He wasnt hit with a ball, he wasnt even running. He's very tiny hip incident from jumping down stairs a few weeks back was clear and his follow up xray was completely normal. But he wasnt moving when it happened. I, of course started thinking about internal issues. Was my childs heart ok? What would cause this....we looked him over. He acted completely lethargic. It was very, very scary. My mom and I argued briefly (of course) regarding our next course of action. We all agreed on the ER bc he couldnt even walk. I called Chris to see if he could call his train master and be taxied back home for a family emergency as we walked.  Larry carried my limp child the first half of the walk and then mom insisted on carrying him. This child is 58lbs....I couldnt carry him if I wanted to ..and still get him to where he needed to be safely and quickly.
   As we got a good ways from the playing field and closer to our vehicles he asked my mom to put him down. His head popped back up and he said it again...in a loud whisper. "You can put me down now Im not actually sick" We set him down in the car and started quizzing him some more about his "injury". He looked ashamed...he took no pride in it but he told me "I pretend to be sick bc I didnt want to say 'yep' and you said you already told my couch that" Umm Thank God my child was ok but I couldnt figure out whether I wanted to slap him or kiss him hard. Being that Im not a spanker I opted for the latter and then told him how disappointment I was. I didnt feel the need to make him feel any worse then he already felt so I quietly shut his door, laughed a half crazy hysterical laugh with my mom and walked back to the field to at least let some of the others know that he was just fine. This is still not quite all funny just yet but I know it will be soon ...prob by the end of the day. I sincerely feel terrible for the scare it gave everyone else at the game. I hate he bailed on his team over a word but hes 5. Hes always been a little dramatic...ok alot but hes never been non truthful with me. It was very uncharacteristic of him. The funniest aspect to me is the fact that he expressed such an embarrassment over saying one word but him falling out and stopping a game wasnt embarrassing at ALL. In any event, he's perfectly fine and I think he learned a good lesson from this. I can say in all honesty that I can read people like a book psychology background and all. I can definitely read my own offsping. So when I tell you that he needs an oscar Im completely serious. It was more than convincing. He SOLD it. There was no little gold man or nomination however I later found out that he did receive the game ball. I think we'll graciously decline that bad boy. Wonder if there are any local acting classes....I have a teacher for them if they do ;) Never. Ever. A. Dull. Moment. Long road ahead Im afraid...at least Logan acts like Chris. :) Kal-El = Lauren Jr.

                        Sorry about the pictures of the pictures lol. Our scanner bite the dust!