Lily’s new favorite song?? Single Ladies…. I don’t know how this happened, but it did.
Here is a video of Lily in the car with Andy, Isabella and I. Some of it is dark (so there is just audio)… It is a little bit long, but fun.
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YouTube Direkt- Single Ladies
Earlier this month, my dad, Andy and I played in a poker tournament series over at Spirit Mountain. However, there was one day that Andy and my dad played, when I did not. Instead, I took Lily over to the Salem Riverfront Park. We had never been there before, but we heard it had a carousel. The riverfront was awesome: a great indoor carousel (open year round), fountains, a nice park… Lily loved it and so did I. Here are a few pictures from the day:
Lily is a sicky girl. Don’t know what it is — some sort of viral something. She always throws up when she is sick. THROWS UP. Andy and I have the clean-up routine down. She only really throws up between the hours of Midnight – 3am (when she is laying down, asleep, as are we):
WAAAAAAAA, WAAAAAAA… Bolt out of bed, to Lily’s room in the pitch black. Reach down to get her. Uh oh. Chunks, wet, something. “ANDY! I NEED YOU.” Up out of bed. Lily and I in the shower (clothes on and all). Andy cleans up. Lily and mom showered and asleep in “Mama’s Bed.” Dad kicked out to the office bed.
That’s about how it goes.
And, as I typing now she pulled her stool over to the counter so that she could climb up and grab, grab, grab. Result? Coffee all over the floor. It was just a handful of days ago that she learned to carry the stool around to get up high. And, it was just a handful of days ago that she has started her throwing phase. Everything gets thrown.
On a happier note, here are some pictures I took using the computer camera (not best quality, but cute):
“Andy’s Genes, My Jeans”
“Sick and snuggling”
Lily thinks that “Good Job, Lily” is a number… I have desperately tried to get her on video while counting to 10. She is tired of me trying (so is Dad, too, I am sure). Here is all I have been able to get:
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YouTube Direkt- Lily Counts
I caught Lily on tap right before nap time. She was being so cute, playing all on her own. And, if you listen carefully, you will notice that she went potty in the bathroom all by herself (not in the toilet, mind you, just in the bathroom).
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Lily has been waking up in the middle of the night (unusual for her) and has been eating a lot… A LOT. I think she is having a little growth spurt. We shall see, but this is my prediction.
I also know I owe this blog some recent photos / videos. This week or next week.
Oh, and Andy will be on ESPN this coming Tuesday (August 17th) at either 5pm or 6pm or both. We thought it would be last week, but we were wrong. 99% sure it will be this week.
Lily’s longest sentence as of yet was uttered tonight: “I see Mama’s car right there.”
She also tried a hot tub for the first time and liked it.
This upcoming Tuesday, August 10th at 5pm is the first airing of the 2010 World Series of Poker on ESPN. This isn’t normally an event that I would pay such close attention to, but I have a high probability of being on one of the first few episodes. Whether that is Episode 1 or 2 on Tuesday night or one of the others each subsequent week, I don’t know, but I’ll let you know when I’m definite.
First, let me back up.
This Summer, Stacey’s Dad – Bob – and I decided to play in the WSOP Main Event as a “bucket list” event that all poker players dream of. We trained for a couple of months with nightly “heads-up” tournaments, and tactics puzzles which Stacey helped us construct. We trained with some local tournaments, and Bob played in the WSOP Senior’s Event, which he cashed in and finished in the top 5%. We were ready for most anything…
About ten minutes before we began playing the tournament on Day 1C, I walked up to my table (188, seat 4), and noticed that it was the only one without a dealer, chips, or other players seated. I thought it was strange, and half jokingly said, “Well, it looks like I don’t have to play today.”
As Bob and I were trying to figure out what was going on, I was approached by a couple of slick-looking guys asking me what table I was seated-at. I informed them of 188. It was then a whirlwind of being informed that I was playing at the ESPN featured table with World Champion Joe Cada, and that I was offered a Full Tilt sponsorship for the rest of the Main Event.
For the next three and a half hours, I was filmed, announced, and observed at the ESPN featured table. At any one point, there was something like 10 cameras and a microphone on me: I was nerve-wracked. The experience of my thousands of hours playing poker melted away in the spotlight at that table. Before I knew it, I was down to 9,500 chips of my original 30,000 starting chips from playing nervously and making poor judgment calls.
When the table finally broke (we dispersed to one of the other 300 tables in the arena), I was relieved to be getting back into the regular groove of playing the game that I trained so hard for. By the end of the day’s play (approximately 11pm), I was back up and over my starting stack to 45,500 chips. Bob also finished above his starting stack with something like 38k.
Throughout this time, both Bob and I were caught on film multiple times as well-known professionals played big hands at our tables, got knocked out, or gained extraordinary amounts of chips.
We both made it to late Day 3 (Monday the 12th), but then got knocked out on some rough hands. We had a great time, but barely missed making it to the money round on Day 4.
I wasn’t positive that I would be on TV until I received a phone call from ESPN. I spoke with a representative about confirming my background, name, city of origin, education, poker experience, etc. She said that I’m “likely” to be in a hand in one of the episodes. And, given that I was mainly filmed on Day 1, I am assuming it will be in one of the early episodes.
So, there you have it. Hopefully by Tuesday we’ll see me play.
I’ve attached a couple of photos from the trip. I’ll download more from my iPhone and share more of the story soon.
Just some things to share about Lily:
Do you know what a “Reveal Cake” is? I didn’t until my cousin got one. Here is the deal: My cousin, Sonja, is pregnant. When it was time to find out the sex of the baby, she had the doctor call her friend. Her friend made her a “Reveal Cake”. The cake was covered in white frosting and would either be pink or blue on the inside (depending on the sex of the baby).
So, Sonja just happened to receive her reveal cake during the week while her father (my dad’s brother) was visiting us. We got to “Skype in” and watch Sonja, her husband and her group of friends cut into the “reveal cake”. How exciting! I thought this was such a fun and clever idea. When she cut into the cake…. she saw pink! Another baby girl.