EAGLE MOUNTAIN

MONDAY, 16 MAY, 2011
I received a phone call at 10:30 this morning from my granddaughter Bailey. She asked if I would pick her up  from school; that she was sick. She said that she was throwing up yesterday at Wal-Mart.
Mine was the only phone number she could remember besides I was the one who would get her eventually anyway since both her parents were working.
I got her and immediately she felt better (wonder of wonders). when we got to her house she grabbed her mitt and baseball and asked me to play catch with her in the back yard. I thought better about it but said yes. I'm leaving the parenting to the parents.
I did not realizing just how out of shape I am, huffing and puffing and all I did was catch and throw and SLOWLY chase down the ones I missed which was 3/4th of the time. But, I didn't even try to run.
I feel old.
Finally she asked, "Grandpa, do you need to go in and sit down?
I was able to wheeze out a feeble "Yes!!!!!!!!"
We sat on the outdoor furniture on the back deck and Bailey went through 30-40 matches trying to light two candles and two torches...TWICE. She finally lit them all once then blew them out and started over.
At least I wasn't throwing and catching baseballs.

Being Monday, school got out at 2:40 so I excused myself and drove down to the school and picked up Jayden.
We called Corey and he said he was leaving work early and for us to pick up Bailey and meet him at the TREK bike shop by the Best Buy in American Fork. They had taken Jayden's bike in because it had two tires that wouldn't hold air . We found out that he had run over two (?) thorns.
They put in two inner tubes with some kind of "slime" in them that fills in any new punctures he might get.
From the bike shop we drove across the street and ate a Dicky's Barbecue. It was pretty good.
When we were leaving the school Jayden said "Oh, there's Alysa (I don't know the correct spelling. Jayden says it is spelled "Alasa" but he pronounces it the way I have it spelled above.
Alysa was walking through the parking lot with her mother and two sisters.
Jayden said, "She is the hottest girl in school!" He sits by her in at least one of his classes.
Mikel (sp) got his heart broken by her. He had a friend ask her if she would "go" with him and she said, "No, he's not my type!"
It made Mikel cry.
Jayden thinks she is in love with another kid (we're talking 5th grade here) Connor(?) it started with a "C" but all he thinks about is sports.
Jayden thinks that his athleticism is what she is attracted to.
Jayden finally got the nerve to ask her who she does like and she said, "No body."
He is disappointed but keeping up a good face.
I think he is going to keep talking to her.
School is over in a couple of weeks.
He said that last year with Izzy it was easy. She asked him out.

After the bike shop and Dicky's I took Jayden home so he could ride his bike while Corey took Bailey to buy some longer pants. The ones she wore to school today where too short for the standards so they let her wear some loaners.

Jayden rode his bike around the block once at about 100 mph, screeched into the garage, parked his bike, grabbed his mitt and baseball and asked me to play catch with him in the back yard.
Of course I said yes and he is older than Bailey and a better throw and catcher so I didn't have to work quite so hard but pretty soon Jayden said, "Grandpa, are you OK? You know you don't have to play if you don't want to."
It wasn't long after that, that I quit and parked my wide body.

Later this evening, Judy, Jim and I ate pizza at Pier 49 in AF (American Fork) then saw the movie "Thor."
I enjoyed it.