A Horse Named Rodeo

For Eli's newest kindergarten project...a rodeo horse.  Luckily for him, his father is extremely crafty and creative, so he helped Eli make this awesome horse.  Eli aptly named him, "Rodeo".  It really is pretty awesome, and Eli says he won the race!

Eli's First Baseball Game

Here we are!  Eli is finally playing baseball!  My first sport love was softball, and whenever I used to imagine my children playing sports, softball/baseball was the sport I'd picture.  I've waited so long to be able to sit in the stands and watch my child play, and the time has come.

 Sweet Brady is his brother's biggest fan! 

 Here he is at second base, ready to take off for third!

Brady showing off his throwing arm.  He can't wait to get to play sports.  Just a couple more months and he'll be 4...the magical age when you get to start playing organized sports!

The Dodgers!  If you look closely, you can see Eli's name on one of the baseballs.

Crossing home, his first ever run scored!

In this league, they want the kids to learn all the positions, so they spend one inning in the infield, and the next in the outfield.  Here he is playing 3rd.  He has a great arm, so he stayed at 3rd/left field the whole game.

His very first at bat!  First pitch was a great hit to the short stop!

Eli was 2 for 2 batting, with 2 RBIs and 1 run scored.  It was a great first game!

8 Months Old

Today my baby boys turns 8 months old!  He is very mobile and communicative and is just a good baby in general.  He is still doing the "army crawl" throughout the house, but occasionally he gets up on all 4's and takes a few real crawl steps.  He is pulling up on everything.  The day I lowered the crib, I came in there at nap time and he had pulled himself up on his crib guardrails.  Good thing I lowered that, or he would have gone tumbling out!   And he is "talking" constantly.  "Dada" is still his only word that I can understand, but he is constantly cooing and squawking.  He has 3 meals a day of different baby foods and cereal.  He is not a fan of any sort of vegetable, so I have to mix it with fruit or cereal to get him to eat it.  He will either curl up his tongue so he can push all the vegetables back out, or he will spit it all back out at me.  A bib is needed for both mama and baby during feeding time!  He is very animated and gets into everything.  He likes to crawl into his room or his brothers' room and play with the toys.  Major especially enjoys the Star Wars light sabers and the bats.  I couldn't choose just one picture of my sweet Major, so I had to go with 3!

Cowboy Brady and Fossil Cookies

Brady had Cowboy Day at Sunshine Class on Tuesday!  He was so excited to get all dressed up!  Look at this cute little cowboy. :)

 Then, on Friday, I had an idea.  What if we made fossil sugar cookies?  So I let the boys pick out some dinosaurs and imprint them on the sugar cookies when they were fresh out of the oven.  Actually, I had them imprint the cookies before they went into the oven, but when the cookies baked, the shapes disappeared.  So we had to re-imprint them when the cookies came out of the oven.  Now we have cookies with dinosaur footprints, faces, bodies, and all sorts of fossils.  They had a really good time and really got into it!  It was a lot of fun.

Special Note: Just in case anybody was wondering why Eli and Brady are dressed they way they are it is because they unveiled their new super-hero alter-ego's: Red Man and Blue Man!

Baseball Season Kick-Off

Eli started his first experience with little league baseball this spring.  On Saturday, March 3rd, they had a season kick-off with a parade and games and they had team pictures and practice as well.  We got there at 8:30 am, and left at 3:30 pm.  Bill was in Austin for a coach's clinic, so it was just the boys and me.  This was a  very long day, but a very good day.

Eli in his uniform...the Dodgers!

 Eli and Brady goofing around.

Here is his team in the parade...

Sugar Land has a new independent baseball team...The Sugar Land Skeeters!  (As in mosquitoes) The mascot, Mo, threw out the first pitch of the season.  We plan on attending a game soon, although the season hasn't started yet.

Eli and a boy on the team were playing "rock, paper, scissors" while waiting for their team picture.  I thought it was cute, so I took a picture of it.

The Dodgers!  Eli is on the second row, second from the left.

Eli's Spring Moosical at Cornerstone Christian Academy

Thursday, March 1st was CCA's Spring "Moosical" for the 2 year olds through kindergarten.  It was so cute.  Each class was a different animal and had their own song in the "barnyard".  Eli's class were pigs.  This first picture is of Eli's class on the risers.  Eli is in the second row, second from the right.

The pictures got messed up again, so these are all out of order.  The second picture is of his class exiting the stage.

3rd picture: Eli saying his line, "As a bunch of kooky creatures you're about to meet."

It just so happens that this same day was "Western Day" at school, so here is Eli dressed as a cowboy for school.

Isn't he a sweet little pig? :)

Major's First Time Pulling Up and His First Tooth

Major had two milestones within a week!  On February 24th, Major crawled to his bouncer and pulled himself up!  I ran and got the camera and here he is!  So proud of himself. :)  Then on Sunday, February 26th, Major's first tooth popped up!  I tried to get pictures of it, as you'll see below.  I think you can tell there's a tooth in there...

 Random photo of 3 brothers wrestling...I love how these boys love each other!  And Brady and Eli are so good with Major.  They are so careful when they play with him and they WANT him to play with them.  If only that would continue throughout the years...

 First attempt and getting a picture of the tooth.  It is on the bottom center.

I think you can actually see the tooth here.  See that little speck of white on the bottom in front of his tongue?  That is his first tooth!  And no, he is really not happy about his picture being taken.