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Let's Play Ball

The weekend kicked off with the start of baseball season! And to celebrate, Jack danced around the house in his undies -- just take those old records off the shelf -- a la Risky Business!

Ethan has been doing really great too. He's pushing himself to a sitting position by himself now - all the time! I put him in his crib and the next thing I know he's sitting up. It's great that he can now crawl around and push himself up when he wants. Before you know it he'll be chasing after Jack!


Saturday morning was a very early (and long) morning. We had to be at the ball field by 8:15a for the opening festivities. It was mostly standing around waiting until each team got to parade around the field and have their name called out. Jack was cold and tired to start so it was a bit long, but he warmed up eventually.



A view of all the teams gathering.
Most of Jack's team -- Go Bulldogs!

We were done with the opening ceremony by 9am so we had to kill some time (I worked the concession stand from 9:30 - 11:30a when Jack's game started) and it was a bit drizzily (before turning into a 75 degree day) so we popped the tail of The Beast, folded down the seats and had a bit of a picnic.



Let's play ball!
Go get it
Batter up!


Jack had a lot of fun playing and seemed to understand what to do, although his first time around, he missed home base and went back to first!







It's so much fun to watch Ethan play these days, now that he's doing so much. Here he's playing with the newspaper. Forget the expensive kids toys, the Sunday paper entertains for hours!




Where's Ethan? Peek-a-boo!


As you all know, Jack LOVES to help me with special projects. Today I was cleaning off the dining table and he helped me dust. I left the room and came back to find him on the table cleaning every inch of it! He cracks me up!!

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