Sadly, Dylan's team did not make it to the end of the tournament. I am sure the boys would have liked to play to the end, but I am not sure the parents and grandparents could have taken it, considering the current heat wave that is covering north Texas. Tuesday evening I sat through two games the Astros played, starting at 5:45 PM for warm-up, through the end of the second game at about 9:50 PM. The temperature hovered at around 100 degrees during the four hour period. We were all hot, tired and irritable when we got home. Dylan was up until almost midnight trying to wind down from the evening's events. He awoke about 3 AM suffering from a bad dream and kept his mommy up for about three hours. He finally fell back to sleep around 6 AM and then slept until 1:15 PM.
The bad dream episode was probably attributable to our gardening episode the previous day. We had our front beds cleaned out and weeded so we could expand them and plant some new foliage. When we went out to inspect them, we discovered a small green garter snake in the barren bed. I think that event coupled with an overtired little boy provided fertile ground for some big, snaky dreams.
