Tomorrow is Abby's last day of 3yr old preschool, crazy! Last night I sent an email to her class that we'd be at Burger King for lunch today if anyone wanted to play. It worked out perfectly - all her bestest friends came. Lyla was there and the twins, Larsen and Levi. All three of them also play soccer with us. Virgil came too; he's a super sweet little guy who was also in Shannon's 2s class with Abby and Lyla. All four moms get along well and the kids played together great. We had a blast! I love our preschool, and we've made some wonderful friends there!
[I wish I had thought to take a picture of all the kiddos, but I didn't, hence the desire to type up a short post]
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
go Raptors!
Ryan's been playing baseball this spring for the first time. He's always been a soccer playing kind of guy. But he knows that Mommy likes baseball and Grandpa does too. I didn't want to push him into anything, but after he gave it some thought, he told me he'd try baseball this spring and then he could go back to soccer in the fall.
The season started a little slow. As in most things unfortunately, there are politics in his league. He's new and the coaches didn't know him and the team mom didn't know him and he got stuck in the outfield. Which is totally fine, he even likes it, please don't hear me wrong, if that's the best spot for him I'm all about that. My concern was that he didn't get a chance and that there was so little time spent on fundamentals and the basics of baseball. But he's a champ. He liked the outfield and he gave baseball one hundred percent with his Ryan-like focus. We play catch together in the afternoons and he has improved so much. 'Can we play catch' is usually asked before we even get inside from the bus stop. And oh boy, does he hustle on the field. He's the first one on the field every time. And he backs up everybody. If the ball's hit anywhere in the outfield, he's usually the one to get it, the other outfielders are too busy playing with the grass or sitting on their bottoms or don't even have their gloves on. I saw an outfielder on an opposing team doing somersaults one time :) He's also a very consistent hitter. He doesn't appear to have the natural power that some of the boys do, but he seems to squeak out a single almost every at-bat. He's worked his way up to 6th in the lineup [out of 11 or 12, everyone hits].
Tonight is his second game in the end-of-season tournament. They won their first game on Saturday to continue on [single elimination]. What a game Saturday was! The coach called him in during the second inning to play pitcher. It's coaches' pitch, but they have a position player there for the fielding. He rocked pitcher!! He stopped almost all of them and threw out, I don't know, four or five kids? That's saying a lot in 5/6 baseball, usually contact guarantees a hit! But what I loved most was his excitement. He was more alive during that game than all season. He was punching his fists and jumping up and down. He was involved and it was awesome. I loved seeing him love it.
Ryan gets the tournament style elimination, and he does not want his season to end. He is excited for tonight, and so am I! It's going to be a great game. I sure hope he is the pitcher again. I've never cared about wins and losses, but I'm really hoping for a win tonight! I'm not ready for the season to be over! Currently, Ryan says he likes baseball, but he still likes soccer too. He even said a few days ago that maybe he'd play baseball this fall and wait until spring to do soccer again. We told him to think on it over the summer; we don't have to decide right now.
Thanks for always giving it your best and for the hustle and the energy and the enthusiasm. I love you my little all-star!!
The season started a little slow. As in most things unfortunately, there are politics in his league. He's new and the coaches didn't know him and the team mom didn't know him and he got stuck in the outfield. Which is totally fine, he even likes it, please don't hear me wrong, if that's the best spot for him I'm all about that. My concern was that he didn't get a chance and that there was so little time spent on fundamentals and the basics of baseball. But he's a champ. He liked the outfield and he gave baseball one hundred percent with his Ryan-like focus. We play catch together in the afternoons and he has improved so much. 'Can we play catch' is usually asked before we even get inside from the bus stop. And oh boy, does he hustle on the field. He's the first one on the field every time. And he backs up everybody. If the ball's hit anywhere in the outfield, he's usually the one to get it, the other outfielders are too busy playing with the grass or sitting on their bottoms or don't even have their gloves on. I saw an outfielder on an opposing team doing somersaults one time :) He's also a very consistent hitter. He doesn't appear to have the natural power that some of the boys do, but he seems to squeak out a single almost every at-bat. He's worked his way up to 6th in the lineup [out of 11 or 12, everyone hits].
Tonight is his second game in the end-of-season tournament. They won their first game on Saturday to continue on [single elimination]. What a game Saturday was! The coach called him in during the second inning to play pitcher. It's coaches' pitch, but they have a position player there for the fielding. He rocked pitcher!! He stopped almost all of them and threw out, I don't know, four or five kids? That's saying a lot in 5/6 baseball, usually contact guarantees a hit! But what I loved most was his excitement. He was more alive during that game than all season. He was punching his fists and jumping up and down. He was involved and it was awesome. I loved seeing him love it.
Ryan gets the tournament style elimination, and he does not want his season to end. He is excited for tonight, and so am I! It's going to be a great game. I sure hope he is the pitcher again. I've never cared about wins and losses, but I'm really hoping for a win tonight! I'm not ready for the season to be over! Currently, Ryan says he likes baseball, but he still likes soccer too. He even said a few days ago that maybe he'd play baseball this fall and wait until spring to do soccer again. We told him to think on it over the summer; we don't have to decide right now.
Thanks for always giving it your best and for the hustle and the energy and the enthusiasm. I love you my little all-star!!
Monday, April 28, 2014
two things of note
I've been wanting to mention these for awhile now....
Chloe can get both shoes and her right sock off if she so desires [which is anytime we are in the car!]. She can't get her left sock off though.
Chloe loves raisins, anytime, anyplace! And when you're as picky as she is, this is pretty impressive.
Chloe can get both shoes and her right sock off if she so desires [which is anytime we are in the car!]. She can't get her left sock off though.
Chloe loves raisins, anytime, anyplace! And when you're as picky as she is, this is pretty impressive.
Friday, April 25, 2014
Thing One & Thing Two at four
At their four year checkups:
Abby was 36lbs 3ozs and 39inches tall
Ryan was 37lbs and 40.5inches tall.
Pretty similar!
Abby was 36lbs 3ozs and 39inches tall
Ryan was 37lbs and 40.5inches tall.
Pretty similar!
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Abby's stats
I don't have time for a nice, long, emotional, sweet blog post about Abby's 4th birthday right now. But I am really, really tired of this huge stack of paperwork from her checkup that's been sitting on my kitchen counter for over a week. So here are her stats so I can file away all the papers :)
She's 39inches, 36lbs 3oz. Both are right smack in the middle of the charts, perfectly average.
Phew, check that off my list, hehe! I'll come back and compare to Ryan's 4yr because its interesting to me. And hopefully I'll write something fun about her birthday and the party and all the wonderful things we've done the last couple of weeks. But until then, off to dinner and baseball! April is always soo crazy busy! but lots of fun! I love you Abby Girl!!
She's 39inches, 36lbs 3oz. Both are right smack in the middle of the charts, perfectly average.
Phew, check that off my list, hehe! I'll come back and compare to Ryan's 4yr because its interesting to me. And hopefully I'll write something fun about her birthday and the party and all the wonderful things we've done the last couple of weeks. But until then, off to dinner and baseball! April is always soo crazy busy! but lots of fun! I love you Abby Girl!!
Monday, April 21, 2014
Happy Belated Birthday
Ryan was making paper airplanes today after school. He came over to me at the kitchen table and handed me a simple little paper heart and said "Happy belated Birthday!" What a great present!!! I absolutely love it when he does thoughtful things like this without any prompting.
Easter
Ryan pretty much gets Easter this year, at least the UpStreet version. He'll tell you that Jesus died to be our Savior. Abby, on the other hand, has some super cute, random thoughts about Easter. She told us last week that Jesus "undied" on Easter. True enough :) Today she asked if Jesus lived on Earth and I told her he did 2,000 years ago. When I asked her about Easter, she told me that "on Easter Jesus started growing again." Gotta love my Abby Girl!
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Chloe's words
Walking, check, on to talking next. Chloe mostly just points, grunts, and nods. But she does have a few words. And hey, Dr. Bowman counts sign language as words, so she's not a bit concerned, and I'm not worried either. I am actually pretty convinced one day she's just going to start talking complete sentences. It'll be scary and rock our world. Guess only time will tell.
As of March 2014, 19months old:
*"Mama!" yep, I'm her favorite person in the whole world and I'm okay with that :)
*"hi!" Chloe one hundred percent knows hi and is adorable when Daddy comes home from work. Or when she peeks around a corner.
*"eee" she poses and says eee for cheese when she sees my camera.
*"up" sorta kinda. I know she can, she just usually doesn't.
*yes and no. Again these are sign language head nods, but hey it counts. And she absolutely knows her yes from her no. My current favorite is when I lay her down at night, and I say "sleepy tight" and she nods yes. It's almost scary how much she can communicate just with her head shakes.
*"Dada" I'm almost positive on this one, but she's not quite consistent. I swear I even heard her say "hi dada" a couple days ago.
As of March 2014, 19months old:
*"Mama!" yep, I'm her favorite person in the whole world and I'm okay with that :)
*"hi!" Chloe one hundred percent knows hi and is adorable when Daddy comes home from work. Or when she peeks around a corner.
*"eee" she poses and says eee for cheese when she sees my camera.
*"up" sorta kinda. I know she can, she just usually doesn't.
*yes and no. Again these are sign language head nods, but hey it counts. And she absolutely knows her yes from her no. My current favorite is when I lay her down at night, and I say "sleepy tight" and she nods yes. It's almost scary how much she can communicate just with her head shakes.
*"Dada" I'm almost positive on this one, but she's not quite consistent. I swear I even heard her say "hi dada" a couple days ago.
the white trees
We have a beautiful pear tree in the backyard that blooms pretty white flowers every spring. For some reason, it's always a little behind most other flowering trees. Abby and I have been watching the progress of the tree for a week or two now. She's been really interested, and I've picked her up several times so we can peek at the blooms and see how they are coming along. And of course, we see lots of white trees around, so we've been talking about how our tree is going to look like that soon.
On Sunday after church, we stopped by Kohl's. Abby had been coughing that morning, but while we were in Kohl's she started feeling feverish and eventually she feel asleep in my arms. I carried her around for a bit, but then we left to sit in the car while the others finished up. We're sitting in the passenger seat, she's asleep on me, I'm all but asleep, when she sits up a little and opens her eyes. There is a little island with a white pear tree right next to us. In a totally normal, not sick or sleepy at all voice, she says something along the lines of: "look at that pretty white tree, that's what our tree is going to look like." Then she closes her eyes and is back asleep. So silly and so sweet!
We had not looked at our tree on Saturday; we drove to Maxim's birthday party [happy happy day to Maxim!] and back, so we were gone 12hours. When we got home from Kohl's, Abby settled in on the couch and I opened the curtains on the back door. Our tree was in full bloom! I asked Abby if I could pick her up and show her something special to which of course she agreed. We finally have white flowers on our tree! Yay!
On Sunday after church, we stopped by Kohl's. Abby had been coughing that morning, but while we were in Kohl's she started feeling feverish and eventually she feel asleep in my arms. I carried her around for a bit, but then we left to sit in the car while the others finished up. We're sitting in the passenger seat, she's asleep on me, I'm all but asleep, when she sits up a little and opens her eyes. There is a little island with a white pear tree right next to us. In a totally normal, not sick or sleepy at all voice, she says something along the lines of: "look at that pretty white tree, that's what our tree is going to look like." Then she closes her eyes and is back asleep. So silly and so sweet!
We had not looked at our tree on Saturday; we drove to Maxim's birthday party [happy happy day to Maxim!] and back, so we were gone 12hours. When we got home from Kohl's, Abby settled in on the couch and I opened the curtains on the back door. Our tree was in full bloom! I asked Abby if I could pick her up and show her something special to which of course she agreed. We finally have white flowers on our tree! Yay!
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