Aiden is playing T-ball for the first time and loving it! They are the Scrappers with 9 boys and 1 girl. They are so cute to watch. Often, the player on 1st base will forget to run and so you will see both players standing on the base. They forget they are even supposed to run. They'll start talking and goofing around until they hear the crowd yelling, "RUN!" and then one will push the other off the base in the direction of 2nd. Sometimes if a player is on 3rd and he/she is told to run home, he/she will just skip home plate and run straight into the dugout! When they are fielding they sit down and play in the sand or they'll pick up the bases and look under them. My aunt and uncle are huge baseball fans and they love coming to these t-ball games. The little girl on the team is quite good and she had to throw with Aiden the other day and turned to me with a wrinkled nose and said, "He has such a little throw!" (: Aiden works hard, but he hasn't had very much practice. He is learning a lot this year though. Liam is the unofficial mascot and hangs out in the dugout with the team. Caleb is the assistant coach and I'm team mom, so with 2 to 3 games a week for the last 2 months, we feel like we live at the field!
The first weekend in May we threw an official birthday party for Liam with guests and games and balloons and cake and ice cream. Rick and Deb came down. My aunt and uncle and cousin who all live in the area came. We also invited a few families with kiddos who are friends with Aiden and Liam to really make it fun! Aiden and I sewed up a bunch of bean bags a while ago and he wanted to make a bean bag toss for them. He painted Thomas the Train on an old cardboard box and cut holes in it and it made a great game for the kids to play with at the party. I bought little bottles of bubbles for the babies/toddlers and they loved the bubbles their moms blew! Liam thought he had to put the wand ON his lips and blow to get the bubble to come out! The little ones played with Liam's train set in his room and the older kids went outside and played in the fort. Liam loved his Thomas balloons and even recognized the pitiful free handed Thomas that mom piped on his cake! Liam got lots of great toys, but his favorites were the 3 Nerf balls he received as a set and his mulching lawn mower.
Wow, Liam is really growing up fast. The other day we pulled out the DVD of Cars (Pixar movie) and Liam exclaimed, "Oh cool mama!" I just about cried! He is a sweetheart though! His "okay mama" when I tell him to do something or "mmmm good mama" when I make a food he enjoys just melts my heart.
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Love Aidan in his uniform. At first I thought,"oh he looks like Shawna, then, no, he looks like Caleb!"
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