Major Leager

He can hit 2 out of 3 pitches, and most of them are out there...its fun until you have to go get the balls. Andy likes to run the bases every third hit. You might think he would get tired, no that's not true, only mom does. Oh-well.

Jumpin the Fence

One ball was tossed over the fence. Andy's solution was to take the shortcut.

"I'll read then you can read, ok Mama?"

Andy has a phonics book that he read for the first time Monday. When he realized that he needed little help reading this story he beamed. Now instead of the usual mom reading a bedtime story Andy gets to read to mom first. The best part is hearing him try to make the story come alive by emphasizing when there are exclamation points. I need to get more of these books because I think I may become comatose if I hear "I see" sentences every night.

Monkey Monkey

Nice enough to head to the park before going to Portsmouth for Mom's birthday. Andy gets a real rush from jumping off of the dome shaped monkey bars. We had to peal him away. When I thought we were going to leave he rushed over to the swings to try jumping off of them. I think I may have to bring Valium for myself next time we go to the park. I'm guessing its only going to get more thrilling as the summer approaches.

The New Baby

Ok, I'm not jealous really. I mean look at these two, they look sexy and they are having fun. Who knew Vicky would be a Harley Mama Bombshell? LOVE IT!

Kids at play...after a long day

On April 12th the siblings got together with most of the kids and Nana for her birthday. We went to Portsmouth to the Blue Mermaid which has some delicious Caribbean food. They are good to us and gave us a huge space upstairs to ourselves to let the kid be kids. And thanks to Auntie Vicky the lovely children all had new bouncy balls to toss around, they LOVED that. And when they "lost" those, they had fun making a fort under some unused tables. After the early dinner we took a stroll around downtown, it was so sunny but still brisk. The kids did great and thankfully so did the adults.

Mom's Birthday

Smokey...UGH!!!

So we have this cat...who is really Andy's because half of the week I am going crazy with the cat getting into everything, making messes and basically always in my way. Then the other half of the week he's Andy's best friend, or as Andy says his brother. Smokey loves Andy so much that he puts up with horrible terrorizing and all other boy behavior. Andy loves this cat so guess what I have to live with it. UGH!!

the woods

This is what it looks like to drive to my friend Denise's house. She has twin 3 year olds and an almost 2 year old, all girls. This is always a good time for Andy who likes to be the center of attention. But the ride there always elicits the question "why do they live so far?" Its really not, but on the extremely bumpy dirt road you really need to take it easy unless you LIKE to spend extra time and money at the local garage getting new shocks.