"Play Ball!"

Kevin is officially a T-Ball player now! This is just the start of many years of sports in our house I think. He had his first practice Thursday night and had so much fun, and for his first time he did great! I'm pretty excited because baseball is a sport I actually know something about. I played softball for 9 years. Both boys have also played indoor soccer, but I have never played soccer and don't know anything about it really. Kevin played tennis for a little while which was fun. I know a little about that just from playing one year in high school, and I loved it. I gave it up to be a cheerleader though (which is were I learned a little about football & basketball) Kevin has a great arm. They even made him throw underhand so he wouldn't knock someone in the head. He hit the ball off the tee so well they ask if he'd been practicing. I'm really glad he liked it. His practices are at an elementary school so Ashton was able to play on the playground. I had Jordan too and he was getting hungry and pretty fussy. I tried to hold him off thinking 'how can I nurse him on a playground?!' I was getting "looks" and realized the practice wasn't ending anytime soon, so thankfully I had my 'Hooder Hider' with me and plopped down on the end of the slide and Jordan nursed away while I hoped some kid wouldn't come barreling down the slide and run into us! I'm so glad Ashton is such a good boy. I didn't have to worry about him the whole time.

Here is Kevin with his fancy new cleats. I'm hoping we will be able to pass them down to at least one little brother. Lucky Kevin, he gets all the new stuff :)

I got a few shots of Kevin at practice. They are a little blurry because I was holding Jordan too. Kevin is the youngest one on his team. Its a 5-6yr. old team and you have to be 5 by April 30th. Kevin's 5th birthday is April 28th.

Notice he hit the ball and the 'T' is still standing!

He LOVED the helmets. He wanted us to get one for home.

Thursday night Aunt Bonnie came over again and offered to babysit while I had some "me" time. I decided this would be the perfect opportunity to have a date with one of my boys. I've been wanting to have some one-on-one time with them for awhile. So Kevin and I left Asthon, Jordan and a bottle with Aunt Bonnie. First we went to Athletes Corner and got him his new cleats and his first protective "cup". Yes, even t-ballers have to wear one on the field! This boy stuff, I tell ya. The nice man measured Kevin (no not that!...his waist) and handed us the right size. I said "Hey look Kev its green, you like green!" and this is for you Uncle Brad: Kevin said "Its KAWASAKI GREEN!!"

After shopping we went to Red Robin for dinner. He likes playing the video games there, so we played first then ate. Dinner was pizza, lemonade and a chocolate shake! Quite the treat for Kev since he doesn't get lemonade or ice cream that often. It was so nice to have conversation with him without ANY interruptions. So nice! Ashton was a little sad when we got back because he missed us. Next time it will be his turn.

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Jordan had his 4 month check-up today. He weighs a whopping 13lbs. 12oz. which is only in the 25 percentile. My boys have always been at least 75%. But he is long at 27.5". That is in the 95 percentile. He is a long a lean boy. The Doc said I should start feeding him rice cereal. They say to start 4-6 months and I was going to wait, but it sounds like he needs more food. So we will be trying that out soon. Hopefully it will help him sleep longer at night. He still only sleeps about 5hrs. straight then eats every 2-3 at night. He is rolling over both ways, reaching for toys and mouthing them and talking a little. He's pretty quiet when he does talk. The 'Baker' gene hasn't quite made its way through yet :)