Baseball

My boy loves baseball. Papoo gave him the love of the game and Nana gave him a little red Louiseville Slugger. We can't go more than an hour without a mention of the Great American Past Time.

Doing the Hundred

Speaking of following through with a goal, Ashley and I have decided that we are "Doing the Hundred" It is a 6-week challenge. The goal is by the end of 6 weeks to be able to do 100 push-ups. Want to join us? http://hundredpushups.com/ We will start on Monday, August 18 and end September 29th. I am not even telling anyone how few I was able to do on the inital test. Please ask us if we are sticking to this goal. It seems like the perfect way to work out for those who have no time to work out (me).

Mommy & Me Challenge

In July I started a 52 week (that's one year for all of you that are not good at math) Mommy & Me Photo Challenge. Each week for the next year I am going to (try) to take a picture of one or both of the boys and me. I haven't been keeping up with it well yet, so I thought if I posted it on here it would motivate me to stay on top of the project. I really want to commit to doing something and follow through with it. I haven't done that with much of anything lately except keeping my kids' bellies full & their bottoms cleaned.

Tobias the Triathlete (2 yrs old)

Go Tobias Go!!! (Ok the first picture was taken like a year and a half ago but the only thing I have of him swimming!!!)

A Walk

We went on a walk this morning because Tobias was, “ready”, but we had an hour before we needed to leave for the morning’s official outing. With Truett in his Snuggly strapped to my chest and Tobias with his infamous baseball hat we decided to walk to the end of the road and back. I let Tobias set the pace; it’s easy to do since he likes for Truett and I to walk “hind” him.
Most of the trip was stop and go because there is so much to look at in the spring when you are almost 2 years old. Broken twigs w/ pine needles still attached seem to be a broom, so one must stop to pick it up and sweep the sidewalk. A plane flying over head is spotted and he announces, “Daddy!” I am not sure if he thinks Ashley is on the plane or that he made the plane, but he definitely associates the two. He notices an owl statue and tells me what it is and proudly says, “whoo – whoo”. Then he finds a nice spot and asks us to “sit”. Who can pass up a rest? Truett doesn’t like to sit as much as Tobias and I do, so we are back up after only a few seconds rest.
This short rest must have energized big brother because he took off “run fast” on the sidewalk. He ran too fast, tripped, and scraped his knee. He immediately sat down, showed me his “boo-boo” and then kissed it himself! Apparently that didn’t work well though because he wanted me to kiss it too. We saw a neighbor and Tobias had to wave to her as he yelled, “Hi!” He is such a social butterfly. He told her we were on a “walk” and I was “hind” him. Then he showed her his boo-boo. After he had said enough he yelled “Bye-bye!” and waved to her. For some reason though, he likes to stop, wave, and say , “Bye-bye!” numerous times before he feels is it sufficient and decides to head home. As we finished our walk home every few feet he had to stop, sit down, lift up his leg, and kiss his little boo-boo. I was required to kiss it a few more times as well; it feels good to be needed.

Our Little Monkey...

He may not know his A, B, C's but the kid can scale a 4 foot fence and a brick wall!!!

Got to love it! Good luck Mom and Dad with watching this one!

Tobias' turn on the internet...

Tobias rocking out....

Yes this is the link below...