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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Jack and Baseball

Jack loves baseball. He has a glove he wears almost everywhere. He has a baseball cap. He has baseballs and bats. He is constantly pounding his mitt, hitting his ball (or asking you to!) off the tee, running and sliding into "first base" (the front door), throwing... He will sit fascinated and watch a baseball game, and his favorite book is a Baseball A, B, C book ("B" is for base... etc.) Recently he noticed that catchers wear masks, and nothing would do until he could have a catcher's mask! Erin went on-line and finally found a child's catcher's mask - and it has arrived! Unfortunately, even though it is in the smallest size available, it is still too big and heavy for Jack - so he insists his mother wear it! It makes an especially fetching picture to see her in catcher's mask, holding Alex with one hand while she nurses and throwing baseballs for Jack with the other!

Scenes en Famille Laffitte

Baby is VERY tired!

So is Mommy!

Jack thinks he might try taking his nap in Alex's "Moses basket"!

Are her eyes still blue?

Friday, May 30, 2008

Jack has a Sleep-Over

Jack had a sleep-over at Granny's, and we went to the Aquarium to see the fish.

Baby Alex had to stay at home because she is too little for a sleep-over.

There are cool toys to play on at the Aquarium, too - including this boat!

A hot dog is a great way to get your minimum daily requirement of mustard! (Mustard is one of the foods foundational to Jack's personal food pyramid!)

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Memorial Day Sleep-Over

Coco and Trey help Granny celebrate Memorial Day by coming for a Sleep-Over. (Taylor decided she wanted to have an evening as an "only child" - and we may have created a monster, because Teresa reports she likes it A LOT and wouldn't mind having it a perpetual state of affairs!)

After a very busy and very noisy dinner at Chuckee Cheese, we arrived at Granny's for some quieter activities...

Get out the lemons - we're going to do some "invisible writing"!

Trey always wants to have a "Hot Chocolate Tea Party" using Great Great Grandma's Hot Chocolate set ("very carefully," he tells his little sister, "it's ONE HUNDRED years old!").

"Chocolate is very good for you!" Coco asserts.

Ooops! I wonder if it's good for the table?!!

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Grandparents' Day at Curtis

Today was Grandparents' Day at Curtis - quite a wonderful affair, with entertainment provided by each grade level, tours of the campus and classrooms, and a lovely lunch.

The Kindergarten and DK combined to sing "A Spoonful of Sugar" - look for Trey - he's one of the penguins! (I couldn't get a picture of Taylor's First Grade class, but they sang "Do, a deer, a female deer..." and Taylor, ever her mother's daughter, played the xylophone!)