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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....

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I'm just testing out another slideshow using the same pictures to see which is easier to view. Let me know what you think...

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Here are a few pictures that I hadn't posted yet....

Morgan and Levi at Luke's birthday party



Gerard at t-ball practice







Nomar, er I mean Gerard, wearing his batting gloves to sleep




Morgan with her favorite toys -- tupperware!

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Here's the video of Morgan walking. Enjoy!

{arizona trip}

We're back from our trip to Arizona. I only took about 500 pictures, so I narrowed them down to about 60 and made a slideshow. (Actually, it's 2 slideshows -- I couldn't have more than 30 pics in each.) I hope you don't have trouble viewing them.

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We had a really nice time. The kids were both great on the airplane. The 3-hour time difference was a bit much, but they finally adjusted to it and slept past 5 am the day before we were leaving. Oh well.....

We went to a Diamondbacks game, we went for a "hike" because little Gerard really wanted to hike in the desert, and both Gerards went to a Nascar race. We also went swimming and had lots of fun with Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Debbie. Gerard loved getting to have a sleep-over with Aunt Debbie each night. I'm not sure she loved it as much as he did, though! [SNORE, SNORE, SNORE!] Gerard and I got to go out for sushi one night while Grandpa, Grandma and Aunt Debbie babysat. Thanks! And I got to see Nadine for the first time in TWO YEARS. Yikes. We can't let it go so long next time! We had a lot of fun catching up... Thanks for a nice night, Nadine!

In other news, Morgan is walking! Her balance is getting much better and she can even stand up without holding onto anything. I took some video but haven't had a chance to upload it yet. I'm working on it, I promise.

Gerard started t-ball last week, too. He bats beautifully, off the tee and when he's pitched to. You can call him Nomar -- he slept with his batting gloves the last few nights. I'll post those pictures later. I think he needs to sleep with his mitt now, because his fielding needs some work. His first game is Saturday.

That's about it for now. I've got lots more pictures to go through and videos to watch.....

{happy birthday, debbie!}

Happy birthday, sis! We all hope you had a nice weekend. We'll celebrate next week in Arizona!!!!!

Last Wednesday Gerard's class went on a field trip. We went to a pizza place where they learned about making pizza and then got to make their own. Gerard had fun watching them flip the dough and enjoyed making his pizza, but he had the most fun because his friends were there.






After making pizza we went to the local childrens' museum. One of the programs at the museum was about careers and all the different choices they will have "when they grow up". Of course Gerard told everyone he wants to be a baseball player. We'll see if he still feels that way after t-ball this summer. The kids got to pick out and decorate a hat to represent their future career. I think Gerard looks more like the Pope in his hat though....



And here are some cute ones of Morgan.




I haven't had a chance to videotape Morgan doing The Itsy Bitsy Spider, but hopefully you'll get the gist of it from these photos:

The itsy bitsy spider crawled up the water spout.




Down came the rain...


and washed the spider out.



Out came the sun and dried up all the rain...


And the itsy bitsy spider crawled up the spout again.

And oh, I've compressed the photos significantly on this post so they'd be faster for me to upload and hopefully faster for you to view. I hope the quality isn't too bad. Let me know!