4 McIntosh Apples

For his first year, we are very proud of how Ean is doing in T-ball. His ability to try and hit the ball has been great and he has only needed to hit off an actual Tee during the first game. Every game since he has hit when at bat.

Fielding on the other hand is a different story. Because they have put him out in Right field, the ball very rarely comes to him so he gets bored out there and doesn’t really pay attention. I wouldn’t expect anything less of him out there because of the lack of action.

However, we are still very proud of how well he is doing for his first year.

Here are some of the highlights photos from the season so far:

From T-ball 2010

From T-ball 2010

From T-ball 2010

From T-ball 2010

From T-ball 2010

From T-ball 2010

From T-ball 2010

From T-ball 2010

From T-ball 2010

Keep an eye out on this photo album, because I will be adding more for the rest of the season.

T-ball 2010

Ean is growing up. No matter what we do, nothing will stop it. On the final day of preschool, Ean had a play party where the afternoon preschool kids all got together in the gym (it was supposed to be at a part, however there were rain storms the night before).

From Last Day of Preschool

It was a final farewell for all of the kids to have lunch and plenty of play for the last day of preschool.

From Last Day of Preschool

From Last Day of Preschool

From Last Day of Preschool

Here is the complete album link:

Last Day of Preschool

For Mother’s day this year, we decided to keep it low key and have everyone over for dinner.

A simple meal turned out to be something more than we projected. April was making a homemade cheesecake when the propane ran out on our stove and she had to run to her Mom’s house to finish it up. We also had to make Chris cook the lasagna because our stove wouldn’t be filled until the next couple of days.

We finally got through the scare and had dinner, which turned out ok. Not what we planned, but we made do. After dinner was finished, we sat back and enjoyed some laughs watching “America’s Funniest Home Video”

From Mothers Day 2010

From Mothers Day 2010

From Mothers Day 2010

Yesterday, Ean was invited to Isabel’s birthday party. Isabel is in Ean’s preschool class.

Just a short history – Isabel was the first girl that Ean asked to marry him. She told him no and Ean has since moved on. Now they are just friends.

Ean was pretty excited to go to the party and when he got there, he was the only boy there so he was in heaven. Even though Ean and Isabel claim that Kline was invited as well, he was unable to make it.

A great game of Duck-Duck-Goose.

From Isabel's Birthday Party

Isabel blowing out the candles.

From Isabel's Birthday Party

Opening Gifts

From Isabel's Birthday Party

Another holiday has creeped by us – the kids get plenty of candy and the grown ups start eating Peter Rabbit and the kids cry because they want eat the chocolate bunny’s head off. Ah, the candy cannibalism.

The kids are really starting to enjoy the hunt for eggs now. Ella undestands what she is doing and Ean has a hard time not taking her eggs. I just wish that it would be warmer around here around Easter so we could have a larger full scale easter egg hunt outside.

Enjoy the pictures. The kids all had fun.

From Easter 2010

From Easter 2010

From Easter 2010

From Easter 2010

From Easter 2010

From Easter 2010

We are winding down from Ella’s birthday party. Ella is down for her nap and we are in the processing of cleaning up.

Ella did better than expected after a shakey start with no nap. She enjoyed opening her presents, but took her sweet time reviewing everything that she opened.

I hope you enjoy some of the videos:

I have some pictures to share from Ella’s Birthday Party as well as her birthday on Friday.

Winter has hit the wonderful Markle area. When the first day came that was actually decent, Ean wanted to go outside and play in the snow. He was actually crying when we wanted him to come back inside to eat.

I didn’t get dressed up so I didn’t go with him when he played on his slide, but he had a blast and it was funny watching him go down the slide full of snow. Thanks to certain grandparents, he also throws snowballs as the windows and doors.