Baseball Pictures

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Alex finished his baseball season a couple of weeks ago, well, it’s probably been just over a month now, but I took loads of pictures and just haven’t done anything with them yet.

Last night I tried to figure out the easiest way to get them all posted and decided to try something new and put them in a fancy photo gallery. It’s kind of the lazy way out since I didn’t edit any of the images or add any comments to the pictures but there were just so many of them I decided just let it be.

You can find all the pictures here. You can scroll through the pictures one at a time by clicking on them or there is a “Play Slideshow” button in the bottom left corner that will automatically scroll you through the pictures. This album also happens to support PicLens which is way cool browser add on for scrolling through lots of pictures at once.

Cupcakes

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This afternoon Jen and the boys made some cupcakes with the idea that we would all decorate them like eyes and have them after dinner. The boys were really excited with the prospect of decorating their own cupcakes and weren’t as concerned with making eyes as just piling as much stuff on them as they could.

When it finally came time to decorate Jen put down a layer of of white icing and Andrew added a couple of gummy life savers and a couple different colors of sprinkles, or “dinkles” as he calls them, to his cupcake. Then he starts eating from the top so he just gets the all the good stuff he’s put on.

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen him do this and every time it sends me back to my childhood. Whenever we had cake for birthdays or special occasions Deanna would always get through the first piece and then start on a second piece. However, on the second piece the pace was much slower and she would end up eating just the icing off it and then inevitably it would be “Oh, I’m full, I can’t eat any more.” A couple of times she offered me the picked over icing free mess and of course I always refused. I mean come on, all the good stuff was gone.

Andrew is like a mini Auntie-D except he has taken it to whole new level. After eating off the candy, sprinkles, and icing he re-decorates it with more icing and sprinkles. This way he doesn’t have to trouble himself with filling up on the pesky cake part, he’s leaving as much room for the good stuff as possible. He’s discovered a loop hole in system where he can act like he’s eating a cupcake but it’s really the equivalent of eating spoon fulls of icing right from the container with some candy thrown in for good measure.

Boy’s Yearly Pictures

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Last month we continued our annual tradition of taking the boys yearly pictures and we’ve finally gone through them and picked out the best ones.

Here is the set from Alex. We had to get creative this year to keep Alex out in the yard to get a good set of pictures because after out thirty shots he figured he was all done. We tried bribing him with “Let’s get some action shots with you kicking the ball.” “How about one more, just move over here.”

Here is the set from Andrew. Right now Andrew is all about making goofy faces when the camera is on him so it made getting this years pictures a little challenging. In the end we had all sorts of pictures with him making funny faces but out of the bunch I think we managed to get a couple of good ones.

Andrew’s Birthday Pictures

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A couple of days ago I finished pulling together the pictures from Andrew’s birthday party. He’s really into animals right now and wanted to have a party with animals so Jen found the Owen’s Spring Creek Farms where we could have it.

We rented an air conditioned room at the farm where we could have the cake and drinks and open gifts which turned out to be the greatest decision ever because on party day it was 96 degrees outside. First they visited the stables and saw the horses and pigs, then it was on to see the turkeys, chickens, and donkeys. This was followed up by a hey ride around the property which Andrew described as “bumpy” and it finished up with feeding the sheep and goats.

Overall it was a big sucess but in the days since the party Andrew has mentioned to us many times that next year he doesn’t want anyone to eat any of his birthday cake.

Alex Lost His First Tooth!

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Big news, Alex lost his first tooth last night!

I’ll let Alex tell how it all happened.

I was watching the Stanley Cup Finals with Detroit and Pittsburgh and I was moving it with my tongue. Then it came out. I got 5 dollars from the tooth fairy and a new toothbrush for my new big teeth.

The other tooth that looks like it’s now sitting in no mans land is also loose and ready to come out at any moment as well.

Alex’s Hockey Pictures and Andrew at Gymnastics

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What a bonus, two web site updates in one day.

The first page is Alex’s Hockey/Skating lessons that he had been taking over the past couple of weeks. We managed to get him signed up for a free learn to skate/introduction to hockey class where that included all the equipment and skate rental. There where 30 kids in the class and only three coaches so there wasn’t all that much instruction going on but Alex had a blast. So far he hasn’t expressed any interest in going out full time for hockey and for that my pocket book is grateful. Later in the summer he is signed up for another learn to skate class through the City so maybe that will be enough.

The second page has pictures from the Gymnastics class that Andrew and I went to over the past couple of Fridays. It was a 45 minute class where the instructor did an overview of the exercises that we would be doing for the day and then it was pretty much free time for Andrew and I to go around to the ones he liked the best and do those. When they pulled out the trampoline I thought I was never going to get him off it but he was way more interested in jumping off the mats and swinging from the bar.

I Interview Alex about his Picasso

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Dad – This is a very nice painting, it looks like a Picasso. Were you studying Picasso in art class?

Alex – Yes.

Dad – How did you draw the background?

Alex – Like what do mean background?

Dad – The flowers.

Alex – We made flower shapes and drew long stems on them. We drew this short pencil line with a dot in the middle and we made all the stems come through it.

Dad – The hand is very nice, is that your hand?

Alex – Yes, yes yes.

Dad – How did you draw your hand?

Alex – Mrs. McKee our art teacher traced our hand and we went over it with a Sharpie and then we cut it out.

Dad – Then how did you attach the hand to the paper?

Alex – We glued it.

Dad – Is there anything else you want to tell me about your picture?

Alex – No, no no.

Alex’s Matisse

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First we got a big piece of paper and we did the background with the dotters. Then we made a big fish container and we outlined with a Sharpie. Then we drew the fish and outlined them with a Sharpie. Then we painted the water blue. Then we drew stems and cut out leaves from green paper and we put them around our fish container.

-Alex