We signed Matthew up for T Ball. He just had his first practice. He was so excited that I thought he was going to burst! Here he is getting ready to take his instructions:
The cutest part was every time his coach called the kids together, Matthew would reply, "You got it, coach!" And his friends Jade and Kyle are on his team. He was one happy kid at the end of practice!
and running the bases...
and, last but not least, batting!
Today was the first day of spring break for Emily and Matthew and I have just one thing to say - is it over yet?????????
In my infinite wisdom, I decided to take this week off and keep Molly home from day care so we could spend some quality time together. Tell me, what was I thinking? Is it really a good idea to put three excited kids who lost all of their ability to get along and control their impulses together under one roof and let them loose on their poor mother? I don't think so. I now know why I work. I don't need the money as much as I need the sanity!
Of course, tomorrow won't be much better. Not only do they all know that they are going to Stacey's house on Wednesday (and they can hardly wait!) but they also know that we will be watching my nephew tomorrow night (and they can hardly wait!) and we are hoping to get to the museum and the library this week (and they can hardly wait - do you sense a theme here?!?) Keep your fingers crossed for me - I need it!!
Tonight Trent and I were talking about the current news of the day when he mentioned the cigarette tax passed here in New York. In response, Matthew announced that he hoped that he wouldn't be a smoker when he grew up. Trent told him that he was in control of that and Mommy told him that I would kick his butt if I ever caught him smoking!
Matthew then told us that he would listen to his angel and not smoke. When we asked what he meant, he told us that he has an angel on his right shoulder that tells him to do good stuff and a devil on his left shoulder that tells him to do bad stuff! It was too cute! Of course, it made me think that they are watching too many old Looney Toons cartoons on Cartoon Network!!
My boy...
Trent and Molly have this little game. Every time we are in the car, he calls back to her, "Molly, are we there yet?" She always responds "no" only to have him ask again two seconds later. It is pretty funny. Of course, it makes Matthew feel left out. Trent made the mistake of asking him if we were there yet with Molly in the car and she got quite angry: "That's my joke, daddy!" So, now we have "are we there yet?" for Molly and "where are we going?" for Matthew. Luckily Emily doesn't have a complex about it all so we can limit it to just two questions!
