Mini Me or Mini You?

Since her birth I have thought Mirra was her dad's Mini Me.  She has so many of his features.  But this morning I came across the following two photos and thought "she has some of her mama in her after all."

1979?

2012

Baseball Blue

At the end of last summer Drew decided he wanted to play baseball.  We told him he had to wait until spring to join a team so we practiced drills at home.

This year Drew went to baseball camp and joined a kid-pitch team of 9-11 year-olds.  I have to say we are part of a fantastic group of kids and parents.

Monday was Drew's first official game.  He had a a lot of support from his fans!  Grammy and Papa drove over to watch and our neighbors (and good friends) Mark and Debbie attended.

The boys did great hitting, fielding, stealing bases and knowing when to let the pitcher walk them.  Drew played left field, walked twice, struck out once,  stole two bases and scored twice. 

He was the ham of the game.  During his second at-bat he bent over to dust off home plate.  The ump said "thanks!" and Drew replied "You're welcome, Umpire!"  

Our "Cascade Blue" won 10 to 3 and we had one very excited son.

The fan club

First at-bat

On First

His first score!!!

HAPPY!

Our New Addition

The two most commonly used phrases in our house are now:


"Ozzie, drop it!"

and

"Mirra, pick it up!"

We adopted "Butter Ball" from the humane society during their PetSmart adoption days.  He is a lab mix and is seven months old.  We see some Pit Bull in his face.  We decided he needed a better name and landed on Ozzie after the former St. Louis Cardinals shortstop.  He has many lessons to learn but he is fantastic with the kids and that is the most important thing.

Happy April First!

Mirra's Journal

The kids in Mirra's class write and draw in a  journal almost every day.  The writing prompt for this day was: Would you rather have the Tooth Fairy's job or Cupid's?

 Mirra wrote:
"I would take Cupid's job because I want everybody to fall in love and I want everybody's butt to get shot and they will fall in love.  I like the sound of that."