Some quiet time at home allowed me to take some quiet time pictures of my kids.
First, Carson lining up his lunchable parts to make his sandwich.
Mallory loves her some watermelon so I let her cut some up. Unfortunately only about 1/4 of what she cut up actually ended up in the tupperware bowl next to her because she ate most of it
It is so helpful to always have a spare camera to record the impromptu concerts that may take place in your backseat.
I’ve been fighting with both kids for 90 minutes to go to bed. They wouldn’t go to sleep.
Carson wanted to sleep in Mallory’s room and I said fine until Rick and I saw them in her window watching us in the backyard.
There have been numerous “I hafta go to the bathrooms” and “I’m out of water!”.
I am exhausted myself. I was ready for bed at 8p so after the first 30 minutes of fighting with them, I gave up and went to bed. I got Carson (who was still crying because I kicked him out of “Malsy’s” …
In the summer of 2012, I found this Fisher-Price thing that allowed you to use it as a tee (for t-ball), or have it pop the ball up to you, or lob it to you like coach pitch. My dad ended up buying it (because he is the biggest kid ever – remember the zip line in the back yard of his old house?) and that weekend organized a baseball game in his backyard. He bought bases and a pitcher’s mound too, and invited all of his grandkids over for a game.
Gigi took care of the concessions – providing …
A few weeks ago Rick surprised us – in typical Rick fashion – by asking me casually on a Friday “want to go to the Tigers game tomorrow? We might have passes to watch batting practice.” If I ever get around to blogging about the rest of our summer vacation, you’d know that Rick really wanted to get to the ballpark in Toronto early enough to see batting practice, but so did about 100 other people so we didn’t get to see much.
So, Rick asked around (thanks Jay!) and was able to get us passes for batting practice. It was …
I am going to do a combo post here – my narrative and Rick’s race report. Rick’s stuff will be in blue italics, and my facebook statuses are in red. .
My race day really started the night before. I was actually able to get to bed at an early time for me, around 9 pm. This was perfect because I was planning on waking up at 3 am, six hours of sleep is what I was looking for. The alarm went off at 3 and I was on my way: shower, dress, grab my morning clothes bag, head out the …
I figured I could share some pictures from the first half of our trip – these are a hodge-podge of phone pictures and little camera pictures and real camera pictures.
I’m not sure I’ve written much about it, but Rick has been training for an Ironman Triathlon – 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run. That’s a lot of miles.
Anyway, it’s been months and months of training and early morning workouts and all day workouts and long workouts on Saturdays and/or Sundays. So to be near the end of it – I was a little excited.
We headed out …
They are so cute when they are sleeping!
The kids got into softball again this year; we didn’t make it to a lot of games this year (between the kids activities and tornado recovery, our spring was uber-hectic) but we got to catch a few games in person, and a lot of games on TV.
Chiddy was a favorite again this year, and Mallory’s other favorites were Haylie (the pitcher) and Bree (#5 – Mallory picked her because she was 5 years old this past spring).
At the end of the season, I took the kids up to see Rick while he collected all of the equipment and stuff back …
I think it’s time for me to do a “things I need to blog about” post:
Mallory learned how to ride her bike without training wheels. I can’t believe I haven’t shared this here yet.
Mallory can also do an entire length of freestyle at the pool, taking real roll-over breaths and everything. It’s CRAZY to see how stuff just seems to click with her. I was almost ready to pull her from swim lessons because she’d seem to hit a wall and wasn’t able to get over the “roll-over breath” and then voila! She figured it out. She is working …