Our First Baseball Season

So anyone who knows me knows I've never really liked sports, never been involved in sports and really don't know anything at all about sports. But I have found myself as the only female in a house full of boys.  So I am coming around and I have to say I have really enjoyed watching my five year old play rag ball this year.

One thing I have noticed is at this age it seems it is really hard to hold their attention.  You may in fact, find your child out on the field practicing on some other necessary skills.  For example:

Here is Austin practicing his dance moves.  He has worked very hard on these this season.

Here we are diligently studying the clouds

Much time is spent perfecting our playing in the dirt skills.

Here we are working hard to identify plant leaves

And last but not least....we should always be efficient at balance.  These things are very important.  Notice where the baseball glove is :-)

This is not to say that we haven't worked hard at baseball this year. We have had many serious moments also.





We've had some really great moments getting home runs, getting outs and we've made alot of good buddies.  It has been a fun learning experience for both my five year old and myself.  Maybe there is hope for me and sports yet.  What I have learned the most is nothing in the world can beat that special moment when he does something good and looks back at me to see if was watching.  I hope he can see on my face how proud of him I am.  Yeah...sports is turning out to be pretty great and I'm looking forward to many more years!!!

The Fun Bin

So Austin got a new game yesterday and Ethan was bored to tears without his brother to keep him entertained.

So I came up with the idea of "The Fun Bin."
Make fun of me if you must but this in my opinion was a brilliant idea.

Here is my little man right before he dove into his fun bin:

Look at that boy just cheesing! That is a sign that mommy did something right!

Here is a list of ingredients to the fun bin:

• Plastic Easter tablecloth that I found on sale after Easter for $1.00
• A shallow plastic container
• A couple of old bags of dried beans
• Leftover plastic Easter eggs
• Easter confetti that I found on sale also for $0.25
• Shovels and rakes
• Bowls and spoons

This only cost me $1.25 out of pocket and gave my kid much more entertainment than any high dollar high tech toy I could have bought him. He played for three hours straight until I had to drag him away for lunch and nap time. Stuck the lid on and in the top of my closet it goes and will come back out for many more of those boring days with nothing to do :-)

He was so engrossed I will leave you with this final picture. Notice the tongue :-)

Have a beautiful day!!!



Saturday Morning Snuggles

Watching Saturday morning cartoons and snuggling with my two little guys.