End of season for T-ball

This was one of the coldest, wettest springs I can remember. Unfortunately for Zander, many (almost half) of his games were canceled due to weather.

Zander had his last regularly scheduled game last night. He got to play first base and pitcher! A couple weeks ago he hit his first pitched ball. We were all so proud...and surprised! He playes one more time on Saturday at 11:15. There will also be a bbq at the field for anyone who is interested in joining us.

Here is Zander with his t-ball trophy. He was so excited!

Here he is with his coaches.

After all the trophies were handed out we had cake.

The Last Day...

I've never really liked the "last day" of anything. Whether it was school or summer camp or the last day of a vacation. The last day always means that something fun is about to end. I can still remember feeling sad even on the last days of school. I would miss my friends and my teachers and all the fun things we did.

I kind of feel sad even on the last day of school for my kids, no not because they will be home all summer, but it is kind of bitter sweet to see them complete another year of school. It still seems weird to me that Zander is all through with preschool now. In all the business of the spring field trips and programs and memory book coordination, it flew by so fast and now he is done!

Let me catch you up on some of the recent happenings in the life of Zander. Warning...lots of photos! I'm kind of behind!!!

During the last Chapel, Zander received his certificate and his memory book. Look for the memory pages on my Paper Caper blog.

On the last day, all the 4 year olds got to have a picnic. Zander was so excited to use his new bento box that Uncle Andy brought back from Japan. Hayden is using his too.

One last chance to play with friends Karly and Carson.

Field Trip to the Farm

We got to hold the baby chicks!

The baby sheep were just a few weeks old and were jumping all over the place. I've never seen sheep jump...didn't even know they could jump.

Here's another one on the left jumping and playing with all the sheep under the tree.

Zander got to plant some flowers too.

After snack, Zander had fun playing with his good friend Carson.

Bubble Day


Zander and his teachers.

Henry and Mudge Play
We all went to New Hope church to see the play. Here are the kids in front of the stage.

T-Ball

Eye Appointment
Here's Dr. Holland checking Zander's eyes. When his eyes are dilated he can see if his optical nerve has any preasure on it, thus indicating a problem with the shunt. Fortunately, he didn't see any thing wrong with Zander!!!

Here he is with his "robot glasses." He got to look through all different kinds of glasses, including 3-d glasses. It was obvious by watching him do the vision tests that he doesn't see 3-d. I also noticed this at the 3-d Muppet movie at Disneyland...he was the only kid not reaching out to try and touch things. The doctor says he still has depth perception, just not 3-d.

Grandma and Grandpa Roush came to watch Zander on Monday.

Grandpa tried Zander's helmet on and it fit!

Our busy weekend...

Last weekend was super busy...I'm still catching my breath. Let's see, Friday night I signed Zander up for T-ball, drove him to his team pictures, then drove Natalie to Sarah's birthday party. We went to one of those paint your own pottery places and the girls got to pick out a figurine to paint.

The next day, Saturday I got up and had Zander to the opening day for Little League. It was wet and cold and not really knowing what I was doing the whole time, I was completely exhausted by noon when we left.

After we went home for lunch, I drove to Aaron's house for Alexis's birthday party. She turned four this year (on 04/04...her "golden" birthday!

The party was fun and relaxing, but I had to try really hard not to fall asleep...Eventually, it was time to go home.

As you can see, I wasn't the only tired one in the bunch.

Once we got home, we snacked a little more, then went over to our neighbors. They invited us over for dessert because they wanted us to teach them how to play Settlers of Catan, a fun and addicting game Dan and I like to teach to our friends.

The next day was Sunday. We went to church. After church we chatted with friends while the kids played in the "snow" made by the blossoming tree near the church.

After church we went out to Changs Mongolian Grill with the Mickles, then over to Walmart to get some T-ball equipment for Zander. By the time we got home, we had to feed the kids and turn around and go to Awanas...and later that evening work on Natalie's reading homework.

Whew...it was a crazy weekend for sure. Monday was equally crazy as it was the final yearbook deadline of the year. All the pages had to be turned in, so I (along with 4-5 other moms) and Natalie stayed after school in the computer lab until 7 pm. Then we went home, had dinner, did reading homework, got the kids in bed. Then at 9 pm I called the other advisor, we proofed the pages one last time and submitted them on-line...and by 11 pm we were done!

Now it's Thursday and I am just now catching up on things that need to get done around here. I've got most of the dishes done, but I'm way behind on the laundry...my least favorite chore.

So for now I'm going to call it a night.

Play Ball

Yesterday, totally spur of the moment, I signed Zander up for T-ball. My friend called me up and said they had a few spots they were needing to be filled, so I asked Zander and he was so excited. A few hours later we drove to the grade school to pick up his uniform because yesterday was also team pictures...we snuck in just in time to be included in the pictures!

Here's his team posing nicely while it was raining!

We just got back from his season opener, but we have to jet off to my niece Alexis' birthday, so I'll upload those pictures later.