Recent Pictures

These pictures were all taken within this past week. The one of Zander in the catchers equipement is him keeping himself entertained in the dugout at Ashe's game. The one of Arya with the toy in her mouth sitting in the stroller is her keeping herself entertained at Zander's baseball game.

Yesterday evening was Zander's very first baseball game. He was so excited about it all day long. During the game he hit every time he was up. Surprisingly, he was a switch hitter last night. The first time he went up he hit left handed then the next two times he hit right handed. He did great in the field, he knew to stay in his postition whereas most of the other kids just wanted to run to wherever the ball was hit and fight for the ball. Finally the coach assigned who was going to get the ball when it was hit so Zander was able to field a couple balls.

Afterwards we went out to eat at the Windjammer for a celebration dinner. Zander said as we were going in to eat..."people are going to see me in my uniform and say, he's so cute". LOL

That's all everyone kept saying at the field was how cute they all were. Which they were adorable out there in their little uniforms.

Ashe had his first game Monday, sorry don't have any pictures for you. Bud and I are coaches, so it was a bit difficult to take pictures. But Ashe got a triple in the game and our team won by one run.

Da Da Da

This morning Arya was very interested in Daddy while he was in the kitchen, so I kept telling her to say da da da. Surprisingly she did! She started out just making the motions with her mouth and eventually she got some sound out and before we knew it she made the da sound. I gave her to Buddy and grabbed the camera, of course she immediately stopped. It took us a few tries but we finally caught her on camera!

A side note.....our big girl turned 7 months old on Sunday!

So proud of our young man

Yesterday Ashe took part in his first Color Guard Ceremony. The Sea Cadets Color Guard presented the colors at the college graduation ceremony. They did a fabulous job, we were so proud of them!

Zan's water day

Zander's sure start class did a water day for the kids on Friday. They had different stations set up for them There was the wading pool, water balloons, bubbles, a water table, and a slip n slide. The kids had a blast!

Zander the fish

Zander is in second set of swim lessons so far this summer. It took a week or so for him to get comfortable in the water again but now he is swimming like a little fish. Yesterday he swam 8 times back and forth the width of the pool and one time the length. He was exhausted but very proud of himself. They also worked on diving, as you can see in the video, he still needs some practice with that. LOL

Sea Cadet Ceremony

Thursday evening we went to Ashe's first Sea Cadet's ceremony. He was presented with an academic award and a one year ribbon. He was also advanced to an apprentice cadet because he passed his advancement exam several weeks ago. We were very proud of him for that. He studied hard for it and was the only one to pass on the first time taking the test. The instructors are looking into Ashe's record, they believe he is supposed to have a 2 year ribbon and possibly another ribbon. Unfortunaltey his records were misplaced so there is some confusion with that.

Ashe is taking part in his first color guard ceremony Sunday, so watch for pictures to come of that.