New and old

Something new...We have discovered that Blake really loves to play golf. He wants to go all the time. Scott took him to the driving range and they took Blake's play golf clubs. He wanted to do it so badly that Scott let him hit a real ball with his play set. Let's just say the ball won! LOL One swing and it broke the club. Blake was so sad that he didn't have clubs. Scott took him a couple more times and they used Daddy's clubs. Scott got an idea to encourage this since its something Blake is showing an interest in so we got him a set of golf clubs for his birthday. Scott reminded me when we were buying them that Tiger Woods started at 3. LOL He said Blake can be his golfing buddy. That is so sweet. Scott is such a great Dad. It doesn't matter to him if he spends more time helping Blake than on his own golf game. He has taken him five times in the last week alone! They plan on breaking those out as early as possible. Even as I type, Blake has a golf club in his hand trying to hit a ball. Maybe we have a little Tiger on our hands. LOL Scott said he wants Blake to beat him by the time he is 8. I couldn't resist the easy dig so I said that wouldn't be that hard. LOL As long as Blake still likes it, we will do it. This is a picture of Blake and Scott at the driving range and a picture of the golf club they used which is now in pieces.

Something old... After last summers near drowning in swim lessons I was a little leery of going back and doing that again, but better sense won and I signed him up at a different place of course. We are taking it again with my friend and Blake's girlfriend like we did last year so I have support in case of heart failure. She was with me through the whole ordeal last year so she knows why I am kind of a freak. So far I am very surprised at how well he is doing. Mommy still can't breathe when he goes under water but at least he doesn't know any different. What is funny is that he doesn't remember it at all but his girlfriend that was in the class remembers everything. She remembers what he looked like and me jumping in after him when the swim instructor didn't notice and was too far away to get to him. She was telling him not to "bob up and down in the water" again. I am glad Blake doesn't remember though. Now if only Mommy could forget....

His smile shows that he loves it! His teacher is great. Aquakids is where we are going and Mr. Matt is awesome!

Spring Season of Blastball

It was an eventful season. Blake made some great friends that I hope we can stay in touch with. A lot of them came to his birthday party too. There was a closing ceremony last Monday. It was so fun. We all got on the field with all the other teams and this time around the kids actually stayed in the in field with us. At opening ceremonies they were tackling each other in the outfield. hehehe They have come so far. Scott and I loved coaching! We will be doing it again this summer for Orange Crush. Blake got a medal for his participation and he was the first one to go. It caught me off guard. It was so sweet and of course I started to tear up. He is just growing so fast and he is having so many firsts and will have in the next few months. It just hit me and I started to choke up. Anyways. I must tell the story about the last game because I plan on telling Blake's girlfriends all about it someday. :-) We were playing last Saturday and Blake was running to the outfield which he sometimes does. He called to Scott to come and chase him and we decided we weren't going to make it a game for him so we wouldn't follow. We continued playing the game with the rest of the team and looked back at Blake to keep an eye on him. About that time I saw Blake grab himself! I thought, "OH NO!!" I sent Scott after him, but of course he was too late. Blake dropped his pants and peed in right field in front of the entire stands and everyone. And let me be clear. I do not have a shy son! He was showing it off! There was not a person in the stands who didn't see it apparently. I did mention to my Dad that I blame him for that display after he was joking with me about it. I did remind him that since he went to Grammie and Papa's house where Papa let him pee outside he looks for opportunities to do just that. LOL It was hysterical really, but only because he is 3. Papa said we needed to go check right field for a dead circle. LOL Just when I think Blake has surprised me with everything he could possibly do, I get a curve ball like that! LOL The summer season starts after we get back from Missouri to see Jody graduate from boot camp at the end of June. :-)

Blake turned 4!

Yesterday was Blake's fourth birthday! I still can't believe he is already four. It seems like just yesterday that I was giving birth. Man how time flies!!! I tried not to cry at the birthday party, but man these pregnancy hormones can be killer! LOL We celebrated his birthday at Chuck E Cheese's this year and we invited all of his friends and family. It was an awesome party! We had A LOT of people there, but Blake was so happy that everyone came. He told me today how he was happy because all of his friends got to come to his party. We had 21 kids and over 30 adults. We had a great time! I was so busy this year thought that I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked. :-( My Dad took some so I will get those from him soon. Here is a picture of my prince getting his birthday crown. They did a little parade around the tables with Chuck E and Blake was so excited to see him. We tried to get Blake's picture with Chuck E and below is all we could get. hehehe He wouldn't turn around. He was too focused on talking to him!

Introducing....

Last week, we welcomed a new member to the family. Scott and I were shopping for Blake's birthday and came upon this puppy in the parking lot of Target. We instantly feel in love and knew she would be perfect for Blake. Trixie is our new puppy. She is actually Blake's puppy. She is a 13 week old yorkie and she is SO cute! Blake calls her "T dog" sometimes and he is "B dog." So adorable. Here is her picture.