Home run

(Jack, Caelan and Skyler)
Jack -- ever the negotiator made a deal with EM that if he did well on the State test last May that he would take him to a Dodger game with a couple of his friends. The test results arrived by mail in late August and he rocked it. He scored advanced in language arts AND math-- a sweet academic home run as far as we were concerned. We were very proud of him (and still are.)

The game was especially exciting to Jack because Manny Ramirez plays for the Dodgers now and Jack is really a die hard Red Sox fan. We have no emotional ties to Boston so this is really a mystery or meant to antagonize his father (a die hard Dodger fan). Nevertheless Jack enjoyed a Friday night out with his buddies and suckered EM into purchasing the Manny look -- which I hope will now also double as his Halloween costume. If not, I may have to borrow that wig for my trick-or-treating purposes.

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