T-BALL

I signed Brynn and Tyler up to play T-Ball through our YMCA for the first part of our summer. The kids have been pretty excited and practices finally started this week.

But it started out very painfully. They had a temporary coach (after two practices and two different coaches we still aren't sure who their real coach is) who was young and obviously had no experience working with young children and was given no training on what they should be learning at that age. The practice was not very organized or productive.

And so it took all of about 4 minutes before PJ couldn't handle it anymore (and he needed to stop rubbing his forehead or banging it into the fence) so he offered to help and basically took over. And thankfully things were on the up and up from there and the kids had a blast.

And Dylan was a handful because he wanted to join in...

So he had to hold a practice of his own...

Its kinda fun going to the ball field as a family...

Brynn's Class Play

We got to go to Brynn's classroom yesterday to see a production they have been working very hard on - The Little Red Hen... starring Brynn Wilson as a dog!

She had quite the audience and cheering section since Grandma was still here AND daddy got to come!

The video of her line didn't turn out :( but she got to say, "Woof Woof Woof, We like to please and scratch our fleas and that's how we spend our day." She's had it memorized for weeks.

Here is a clip of the play:

At the end they let us know that the moral of the story was that hard work really does pay off. And they knew that, because this year they had worked hard and learned to read and write and do math, etc. Then they thanked us, their parents, for making their world wonderful. And sang us this song...

I'm very glad I was standing behind my husband because I started to tear up a little. They were very cute and sweet and did such a great job! (I completely blame the emotion on pregnancy hormones).

Then we got to go out on their playground and have a little picnic...

...only Brynn ran around with her friends and Tyler was SO excited to be playing on their playground. So Dylan had a snack.
Mrs. Panacopoulos was a wonderful teacher and Brynn had a great kindergarten year! She's grown so much...

Saturday was a special day...

Our different Grandma is here visiting!...

...and we got to take her to see the St. Louis Temple (because our ward was having a great family activity there)...

It was a beautiful, enjoyable time. But we needed a nap after that. And once we were refreshed and recharged we headed over to the farm to pick some strawberries...

And by the end of the warm, eventful day we needed a little cooldown...

And now its time to get ready for Sunday...

Tylers Preschool Program

I'm a little sad right now. Tyler is suppose to be at his last day of preschool where, not only is it the last day of school, but they are having a special un-birthday picnic for all the classmates who don't have birthdays during the school year (which is him). But he's recently/randomly been running a fever and "spitting up" a little. And then this morning he woke up like this...

...he's got little red "dots" all over (mostly on his face, neck and arms). So Dr. Daddy said he had to stay home :( I am definitely more disappointed then him about it. But when it was time to get dressed this morning he thought for a minute, then said, "I know. I just wear long sleeves and my friends not see them. OK." When he realized that wasn't going to work he said, "OK. I just go in the bathroom and wash them off. Be right back!". And later on he asked me to open a window so his dots could fly out. Anyway...

Last week his class had a nice little program so they could conclude the school year.

Here we are getting ice cream afterwards...wonderful self-family portrait I know...

But we started out the evening by having snacks and playing...

Then they did a performance of their favorite songs. They needed butterfly wings for one of them...

The songs were very cute and I got some adorable clips of Tyler doing his thing. This first video is of the itsy bitsy spider - he got distracted by his "spider" a little bit. Then the second video is of his favorite song and I love the first 10 seconds :)
Then they were presented a packet of their work from over the school year...

Inside was this adorable picture that he drew of "his baby". Which I only naturally assumed was Dylan since half the time he still calls him "baby", or introduces him to people as "his baby". But he quickly corrected me by rubbing my tummy and telling me it was actually a picture of baby sister.
It was a good school year for Tyler. We'll miss his friends at Discovery!