UNTI FAMILY

I've got the Popcorn, and you don't! Na, Na, Na, Na, Na. We went to Hershey Park and Vangie told me what you have to do is warm the kids up to the idea of riding on the rides. I didn't believe her. What kid doesn't love to ride scary rides? Apparently not mine. We went in and got on the water rides and when we got to the top both of the boys chickened out. I took some convincing but we finally got them to go. Once again Vangie was right and Mike was wrong.

We attempted to start over by riding the monorail but when we got to the front of the line they closed it for repairs. We went back and Jake rode a few kiddy rides but Max refused to go on them. Max is at a tough age as he is too cool for the kiddy rides but not brave enough to go on many roller coasters. Yesterday I posted a video of me and Max riding the Wild Mouse at Hershey Park on Saturday. It took nearly the whole day to convince him to go on that ride but when he finally decided to go he liked it so much we went twice.

The kids also like spinning rides and they like to ride them with me because spinning rides make me sick. Apparently when Dad is sick it's very funny. I'm not sure I get the joke. They made me go on the Falcon which has three separate groups of riding pods. Each pod spins in circles while all three pods are also spinning. As it is doing this you are going up or down. Yes I almost barfed and had to sit for a bit while Vangie and the kids rode on some super wet river rafting thing.

Jake goes to two kindergarten classes. One five half days a week at the public school and then again two days a week while Vangie is at work. The two day a week kindergarten class had a graduation ceremony last week. What was really odd about the whole thing was that they could not figure out how to keep the caps on the kid's heads. So they decided to put duct tape on the inside of the cap to hold it to the kid's heads. This works great if you kid is bald or has really short hair but if your a mop top like Jake than it's just going to flap around with the hair. I'm a big fan of duct tape, use it to fix a lot of things myself. But not sure if attaching caps to 6 year old's heads was the right move here. You would think that one of the most important things you can teach at this age would be that Tape and Hair don't go well together.

Today Max walked in the Memorial day parade through lovely downtown Mechanicsburg with his boy scout troup. I walked behind or on the side of the road with the other dads. We woke up late and had to rush to get their on time but we made it. I didn't have time to get my morning Dew, but fortunately for me there was a CVS along the parade route and I was able to run in and out and feed my newly rediscovered addiction.

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mothers out there. I began the day attempting to make Vangie breakfast in bed. I attempted hash browns, eggs, english muffin, coffee and juice. I burned a good deal of the potatoes but was able to pull the burnt ones out. I think I did well because she ate the whole thing and she did not get sick. After breakfest she opened presents. One of the presents was in a bag that came home with Jake on Friday. It was a plant and by the time we opened it on Sunday it was in very sad shape. Next time I will have to remember to ask the kids what's in the bag. Then we went shopping so she could exchange a few of the presents for things a little more her style. The kids remember this same pattern last year. We sat on the same bench last year while Vangie tried on clothes. I was suprised but the kids remembered. They have decided that they like Fathers Day better and they let everyone in the store know it. No shopping. Then we returned home, called all the other Mother's in our lives and wished them a happy mothers day. Later it was back to back soccer games and then home where Vangie had a crab leg dinner.

Someone got a lot of presents for his first communion and the other one just got this dumb suit and tie. Can you tell?

Max had to be at First Communion at 10:00, the service started at 10:30, and I had to coach Jake's baseball game at 9:00. I had to get to the field at 8:15 to rake and line the field. I somehow managed to get home just after 10:00 and got Jake and I into our dress clothes and then back to church. We made it with 4 minutes to spare! I consider this to be one of the greatest achievements of my lifetime.

The Unti Men