Chera Eric Lexi and Owen: February 2016

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

A PNS Birthday Celebration

At the end of April, Owen's preschool celebrated their 69th year as a school - which is crazy to think about and such an accomplishment. Since they are a semi-cooperative school, one way they bring in new toys for the kids is through a "wish list" that is sent out to the parents and on the schools birthday each child brings in a small gift and unwraps during their meeting time. Owen picked out a few new balls for the playground as well as some new train tracks and trains for his classroom. After their meeting time, we were all invited to attend a little party for the school with cake and balloons and free play on the playground. It is low-key but the kids got a kick out of it. Last year we all went, sang happy birthday and played on the playground. It's always so fun to get a peek at why Owen loves school so much and to see him so happy to share his school with us.

Owen's special homemade birthday card (the balloons are his finger prints)

My handsome little man - I love how he drew his whole family in the card

Daddy came to the party too! Such a treat for Owen

Owen was so excited to show Addie his schools playground

And she liked it too

My boys

Happy Addie

Friday, February 19, 2016

T-Ball

My little 4 year old buddy got to try out T-Ball for the very first time last year (May 2015). We signed him up for our local town's t-ball and overall it was great. The season started about a month late because of the massive amount of snow that just didn't want to leave the fields, but it might have been better that way because it also brought warmer weather to the games :).

The season started with an informational pizza meeting with all of the teams to meet the coach and get their uniform and hat. Owen's team was the Clippers and his sponsor was Rancatori's Ice Cream (which was just a cool team sponsor to have for your first year of t-ball). He had a black jersey and as luck would have it he was randomly assigned #8 as his number (Eric's college volleyball #8 and our wedding day 8/8). He was also on the same team as his best buddy from school Josephine.

Ready for his first game!

Got his uniform

Best buddies

The team

The season lasted about 6 weeks and he had games twice a week. The games lasted about an hour each time and were pretty entertaining to watch. Each game consisted of 2 innings - each team took the field twice and batted twice. Everyone scored and runs didn't matter.

Out in the field

The little cheerleader Addie

Get that ball O!

And this is how they spent most of their time waiting to hit

My baseball star

Owen

What you don't watch baseball games with gloves on your head?

Swing batter batter

Look at the enthusiasm to get the ball :)

Eric and Addie

Addie playing on the playground while Owen was playing baseball

Time to bat

Woo-hoo

Love this picture

Secrets at first base

Good game!

The first game was hilarious watching the kids try to field the ball. They looked like a pack of puppies chasing a brand new tennis ball. Meanwhile the kids batting didn't know where to run -- some just stood at home base, some kids hit the ball and chased after their own ball, other kids ran to third base instead of first - seriously it was so awesome to watch.

Owen's very first time at bat

My all-star

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Addie's 1 Year Pictures

We all know that Addie is hit or miss with professional pictures. She is either ok with having her picture taken or is not a willing participant at all. For her one year pictures, I didn't go in with any expectations which was probably a good thing. I actually waited until she was out of her cast so I got these done right at the beginning of May. She was a wreck for the first half of the pictures but rebounded and we managed to get a few good ones near the end. Thank goodness for my camera loving little boy - he saved the day and session. While Addie warmed up, Owen cheesed it up and showed Addie how it is done.

Owen warming up the camera