Practicing...

This past week, we took Kyle to pick out his new T-Ball glove. At first he was not crazy about it because he thought the glove was too stiff but now that Ben has shown him how to open and shut his hand and they have been playing catch all the time. These were a few from the first night he got the glove.

He throws the ball pretty well. How ever I still duck and holler when he throws it to me. :-) When I tried to throw it to him, well I was told "Mommy, you are a girl!" Yep, that is right, Mommy is not a very good ball player. I guess I will have to practice too.

Ben got him a new glove also so he could play catch with Kyle. I am not sure who is prouder of their gloves. :-)

What is that?!?!

Kyle absolutely loves his dress up clothes, or I should say his old Halloween costumes! One day he is an race car driver, the next he is spider man and the next he is a fireman. Most days Kyle runs to his room and comes out in what ever he plans to play with that day. He has a GREAT imagination and I love to hear him talk and play with his toys. Well on Friday night this is how he came out of his room....

He is wearing his spider man mask, fire man jacket, super hero cape, and cowboy hat. So my question is...What is he suppose to be?!?! :-)

As you can tell, Evan has NO idea either! :-)

My favorite sound!

Tonight after supper, the boys and I were still sitting at the dinner table and Kyle started acting silly and just to make his brother laugh. And it worked..... I have decided that my favorite noise in the entire world is hearing my boys laughter. It is contagious. And fortuntely Evan thinks Kyle is hilarious!!

An important lesson learned...

Earlier this week, Kyle needed a new pair of dress shoes so after supper we ran up to the mall to grab a new pair. This was my first mistake - what in the world was I thinking taking my 4 year old out at 7:30 at night?!?!

Anyway we get to the store, pick up a few other items I was looking for for Evan and then we head to the shoe department. I picked out a new pair of shoes for Kyle. He liked them - that was a plus. The clerk was able to find the shoes we were looking for in a 9 1/2 just as I had requested. I immediately said "SOLD" and wanted to check out. The clerk said "These shoes run a little big, so I think he should try them on". Well since they run big I guess we should. Kyle runs over to the chair and immediately takes his shoes off. Oh. my. goodness! I have NEVER seen so much dirt come out of his shoes! It went everywhere! Dirt was on Kyle's pants, the chair, the arms of the chair, the floor.... it looked like a small dirt factory exploded! The clerk said "whoa, did he bring all that with him?" I honestly have NO idea how he was even walking. I was very embarrassed and started trying to brush all of the dirt out of the chair but then realized I was just making things worse because little piles were starting to form on the carpet. I reached over and put the new shoes on Kyle's feet. The clerk was still standing there frozen - I think he was in shock at how much dirt we just unloaded onto his chair and floor. And of course as luck would have it, we realized the shoes, in fact, were too big. So Mr. Clerk went to retrieve another pair of shoes. This time he brought out the 9.

By this time another shoe department clerk joined us. He noticed the HUGE mess we had made. He told us that he too had children and understood the mess. (Thank goodness for small favors)! The 9's fit better. Good - let's go! Not so fast....new Mr. Clerk 2 said " is he going to wear them with socks?" "No", I said so I started to take off his socks...honest to goodness his feet looked like he had been walking bare footed at the beach. His toes were caked with dirt! I think my face turned three more shades of red but I hurriedly shoved Kyle's feet into the new shoes before Mr. Clerk 1 and 2 could see.

Thankfully the shoes fit! I was so embarrassed and did not want to run the risk of them seeing just how bad his feet looked that I let him wear the shoes out of the store. Kyle was estatic because he got to wear his new shoes. I paid and once again apologized for the mess and we got out of the store as quick as we could.

So I learned a valuable lesson that night....always always always check my boys feet before going to look for shoes because I never know what surprises they may have hiding for me!

Afternoon of FUN!

I think my family has finally started getting used to daylight savings time. Well...almost. Evan's bottle times are still off and out of whack and Kyle is now laying in his bed for close to an hour every night before falling to sleep...but those things will work themselves out soon.

We have been trying to take advantage of the beautiful afternoon weather. I have been trying to fix easy suppers so we can all stay outside as long as possible.

We have signed Kyle up for T-Ball and he is SO excited! He is wanting to practice all of the time. I have to admit he is really pretty good at hitting the ball. I hope he really likes it.

He wanted me to learn how to hit the ball. He gave me lots of directions (it was so cute)!

Yeah, Mommy hit the ball!

However, Kyle was pointing and telling to run! I am suppose to run to all of the imaginary bases in the yard.

While the T Ball game was going on, Evan was enjoying his swing! He is so cute, will swing his legs and holds onto the yellow rope of the swing.

Kyle also had to ride the tetter/totter. Evan thought that was hilarious! He and Kyle were swinging opposite so when they would meet in the middle both would bust out laughing. I am so glad these boys love each other so much!

Kyle and Ben also played in the sand box a little bit.

I think we are going to need a bigger sandbox soon. Especially with two boys to play in it. I am not sure if we need to build one or if they even make bigger ones. Maybe this is something I need to add to Ben's "honey do" list! :-)

I am looking forward to more of these spring evenings. I love my little family and all of our adventures whether they are at Disney World or in the back yard...they are all just as special and the memories will last a lifetime.