Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Summer Nights at the Baseball Field

We took this cute picture for Father's Day. It went with a sweet poem about walking in Daddy's shoes. We also got tickets to a Lobos baseball game. We left the littlest boys and took the older 4 kids and a couple of their friends. Nathan wanted to wear his own baseball uniform to the game and bring his mitt. It was a pretty good game. Actually ended in a tie at the end of the ninth inning so we played another 4 innings before we finally won the game. It was late by the time we got out of there, but we told the kids we'd get something to eat once we left the game (to appease them when we wouldn't buy tons of baseball game food), so we found a place near the college that was opened until 1 AM and ate burgers and burritos at 11:30 PM. The kids all fell asleep on the way home.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Sibling Love

We have three bedrooms plus a loft that we use as a bedroom. We have a set of bunk beds, a queen bed, a full sized bed and a toddler bed (not to mention the king size bed that Dad and I sleep on), and yet come summer time this is pretty much how the kids sleep every night. They love to sleep together in the same room. Sometimes there are disagreements about who gets the bed, but they are usually pretty good about working it all out. And most of the time they really don't mind sleeping on the floor as long as they can sleep together.

Running the Bases

Nathan is having a great time playing tee ball. Tee ball is pretty uneventful, but we're pretty lucky that we have some good coaches who are trying to teach the kids some plays even though they're just beginning. Nathan has been playing catcher quite a bit. It's not his favorite, but he's willing to do it, which some of the other kids aren't. He gets down in his little squat, which is so cute, and can just stay there for as long as it takes for the hitter to make contact with the ball. He's our competition boy - loves to race the boys out on the field and race them during warmups - everything is a race for him.