{life lessons}

Remember "All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten"? Check this out -- I like to think of it as "All I really need to know I learned from wild animals".



Never give up and stick together and you can beat the crocodiles and lions in the world!

I hope everyone has a nice Memorial Day weekend!

{kindergarten here he comes!}

Well, last week Gerard had his kindergarten readiness test. In our district, all kids with late birthdays (August 1 through December 1) have to be tested to see if they're ready for kindergarten or if they should be placed in "Young Fives". We all felt pretty confident that Gerard would test into Kindergarten and today the principal called to tell us that he had! So, he'll be getting on the kindergarten bus in September! Crazy....

{new pictures}

Just a few new pictures....

Morgan (and her ponytail), ALWAYS climbing on things:

We had our fun fair at school last week and Gerard had his face painted. It absolutely surprised me, because he is usually very weird about people touching his face. I'm sure it helped that it was a pretty high school girl doing the painting. (Although clearly she doesn't have much of a future in art -- it's supposed to be a heart!)

Gerard got to take his class mascot home this week. Of course Curious George had to come to Gerard's tee ball game.

But the highlight of his game was eating dinner at the concession stand:

{thanks}

I know there have been some problems getting all the pictures to load on the blog, but hopefully it's taken care of now. Debbie suggested that I reduce the number of posts on the main page and that seems to have taken care of the problem. I guess there was just too much to load! Thanks, Deb, and thanks to everyone else for hanging in there with me. I'll have new pictures soon!

{stuff}

Just a quick post to share some of the stuff going on...

Since Morgan is 20 pounds and one year old, we switched her carseat to face forward. She looks like such a big girl!

Gerard in the "dugout" during his first tee ball game:

Hamming it up with the third base coach from the other team. In all fairness, the guy was wearing a Steelers shirt, so Gerard just had to talk to him.

Go team!

Gerard's second game:

We went to Levi's first birthday party on Saturday and Darci made Morgan her own cake. Isn't that just too sweet?! Morgan loved it, blue fingers and all!

Morgan, better known as Pebbles, with her new hairdo. She screams bloody murder when I put the ponytail in, but stops as soon as I'm done. Big Gerard thinks it looks silly, but I like it.

{videos #2 and #3}

Enjoy....

This one has some little clips from Gerard's first tee ball game. He was the lead-off batter! Poor little guy had trouble getting to first base, but as you'll see, he had no trouble sliding into home!

This is a cute one of Gerard and Morgan playing together. Morgan got this toy for her birthday from Shauna, Chris and the girls. She loves it and still gets so excited when she gets it to work.

{video #1}

I'm working on a couple of videos so I thought I'd post them as I complete them. The other 2 should be done by tonight! Enjoy opening day of Gerard's first tee ball season....