Peanuts + Cracker Jacks

My (newly retired!) mom came back home with us after our quick trip to Dallas last weekend. The timing couldn't have worked out better as Kevin had a trip to Virginia, and this was the first week that August and I were without our morning sitter, so the transition was more than helpful.
We kept the week fairly low-key, as it was way too hot to venture out to do much of anything. But on Friday, Kevin's boss had given him his tickets to the local minor league baseball team's game, so we loaded up and head north to cheer on the Round Rock Express. Being August's second game, he was much more aware and involved than he was last year. Though we knew we had our work cut out for ourselves when we decided to take a sleepy, sweaty, teething toddler out to a loud, sizzling baseball game. He was quite the trooper, and allowed us to take in our share of hot dogs and beer before calling it quits during the 7th inning stretch.

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