Matt's First T Ball Season

Matt has started t ball. The town's baseball league runs a co-ed t ball skills clinic for 4 year olds. (Unlike the town's soccer league, which requires that he be going into kindergarten next year, baseball's cutoff is in May.) He won't be playing games just yet, but hopefully even though he's convinced he already knows everything he will learn some basic baseball-related skills and be able to decide as he gets older which sport he would like to play, if he wants to play one at all.

Anyway, the weekend before last was the opening day parade and ceremonies. I took both boys while Jon finished up a school project.

Matt and Andy waiting for the parade to begin

Waving to the fire truck in the parade

A friend caught me unawares and snapped this shot of us marching with the 4 year old "team."

Hmm, someone looks ready and eager to play.

It's hard to stay focused and listening during speeches.

Last Saturday was the first official practice. Jon took Matt while I stayed home with the napping Andy.

Matt in the field

Fielding grounders

Happy 21-Month Birthday, Andrew!

Wednesday Andrew turned 21 months. Here he is, getting ready for bed:

Andy continues to be one busy little guy. He rarely passes up a chance to play with water, especially if there are rubber ducks or other toys in it; sand; and cars and trucks. He still loves Curious George and Pooh, and he likes dinosaurs and trains still as well. He enjoys building, even if sometimes he needs some assistance. He may enjoy knocking things down even more, much to his brother's chagrin. He is a little more cautious when climbing up high and sliding, but he loves swinging high. He enjoys reading books, but whereas Matt tends to read pretty much anything Andy is more particular. Stories about cars and trucks, dinosaurs, etc.; books with lots of sound effects; and books with things like flaps or other things to do are big hits.

One of Andy's biggest milestones is that he now has all of his baby teeth. His last two two-year molars broke through this past month and are just finishing up. We're all looking forward to more sleep.

Andy continues to add more words to his vocabulary. He is up to over 120 words. This month he added belly, button (he loves to push buttons), star, trash, change, eye, deer, helicopter (he goes for "copter"), rock, robot, egg, giraffe, caw, tractor, dig(ger), mouse, tree, pants, and bag. Hopefully soon he starts adding a second syllable!

Andy's 3T clothes are fitting more comfortably, and he's in size 7 shoes now. He certainly is growing well, and he often gets comments about how big he is.

March 2018 Recap

Here are the rest of our March adventures, dependent upon the weather, which swung from heralding spring to bringing back winter:

We managed to get out for a playdate with friends.

Silly Andy with a Bilibo on his head

We went to the library a lot.

Doing the bead maze

 

Cars and dinos in the dollhouse

Building with Peeps

Sailing his Peep boat

Building with various materials

Parachute fun

Creating a painting by blowing paint

Batman watching his brother's program

Playing with scarves

Side by side coloring

Rocking with Curious George

We ran some errands.

Helping me get more wood pellets for the pellet stove before one of the storms

We went out to eat a couple of times.

Matt being adventurous at a sushi restaurant

At our usual pizza/Italian restaurant, playing with dough

Matt and I went to a special owls event at the Audubon's Museum of American Bird Art.

Matt posing as an owl

Making an owl scene with a friend

Watching an art student throw a clay pot

Matt with his owl puppet

Matt enjoying the owl cookie he decorated while waiting in line to see some live owls

The boys and I went to a maple sugaring event.

Matt after trying the yoke with buckets

In the sugar shack watching the sap boil

We participated in a couple of studies.

Waiting to meet the researchers

And we had several snow days as well as other days at home.

Watching the snow during the first snowstorm of the month

Waking Matt up for school

Tigger shortly after waking

Andy reading a book with me shortly after waking

Trying to help shovel after one of the storms

Rocking a bear in the chair

Racing cars down the speedway

Brotherly bedtime cuddles

 

Enjoying some snacks (mac & cheese for Andy, toast with homemade marmalade and hot cocoa for Tigger, who decided tiggers prefer something else on toast)

Play Doh fun

And when the weather cooperated we played outside in the backyard with the items I brought out when I thought spring was on its way.

Scanning the yard

Swinging as the snow melts

The first bug of the season, a spider

Walking through the remaining snow